 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...ufually employed as tutors to their mailer's children. Epiaetus, Terence, and Phsedrus, were flaves. But they were of the race of whites. It is not their...condition then, but nature, which has produced the diftinftion. Whether further obfervation will or will not verify the conjecture, that nature has been... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...notwithstanding these and other discouraging circumstances among the Romans, their slaves were often theirTarest artists. They excelled too in science, insomuch as to be usually employed as tutors to their master's children. Epitletus, Terence, and Phaedrus, were slaves. But they were of the race of whites.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 632 pages
...against a freeman. Yet notwithstanding these and other discouraging circumstances among the Romans, their slaves were often their rarest artists. They...insomuch as to be usually employed as tutors to their master's children. Epictetus, Terence, and Phrndrus, were slaves. But they were of the race of whites.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1859 - 642 pages
...insomuch as to be usually employed as tutors to their master's children. Epictetus, Terence, and Phsedrus, were slaves. But they were of the race of whites. It is not tbeir condition then, but nature, which has produced the distinction. Whether further observation will... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 pages
...against a freeman. Yet notwithstanding these and other discouraging circumstances among the Romans, their slaves were often their rarest artists. They...insomuch as to be usually employed as tutors to their master's children. Epictetus,' Terence, and Phaedrus, were slaves. But they were of the race of whites.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 558 pages
...too in science, insomuch as to be usually employed as tutors to their master's children. Epictetus, 2 Terence, and Phaedrus, were slaves. But they were...condition then, but nature, which has produced the distinction.—Whether further observa1 Suet. Claud. 25.—TJ * " Seneca de ira. L. 3, 40 ; de dementia... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - African Americans - 1917 - 504 pages
...against a freeman. Yet notwithstanding these and other discouraging circumstances among the Romans, their slaves were often their rarest artists. They...insomuch as to be usually employed as tutors to their master's children. Epictetus, Terence, and Phoedrus, were slaves. But they were of the race of whites.... | |
 | Philip Stevick - Art - 1971 - 348 pages
...discouraging circumstances among the Romans their slaves were often their rarest artists. They excelled too i science, insomuch as to be usually employed as tutors...Phaedrus were slaves. But they were of the race of whites . . ." Thomas Jefferson. 284 AGAINST ANALYSIS: the phenomenal vorld Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello,... | |
 | Winthrop D. Jordan - History - 1974 - 260 pages
...achievement. Unaware that he might be inverting cause and effect he noted that some ancient slaves excelled "in science, insomuch as to be usually employed as tutors to their master's children." There had been slaves, then, who had demonstrated significant attainments; and... | |
 | Alan Gallay - History - 1994 - 440 pages
...against a freeman. Yet notwithstanding these and other discouraging circumstances among the Romans, their slaves were often their rarest artists. They...insomuch as to be usually employed as tutors to their master's children. Epictetus, Terence, and Phaedrus, were slaves. But they were of the race of whites.... | |
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Yet notwithstanding these and other discouraging circumstances among the Romans, their slaves were often their rarest artists. They excelled too in science, insomuch as to be usually employed as tutors to their master's children. Epictetus, Terence, and... 
