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"We may consider also, as a farther confirmation, that it is impossible, in the nature of things, that liberty can be bought or sold! It is neither saleable, nor purchasable. For if any one man can have an absolute property in the liberty of another, or, in other words, if he, who is called a master, can have a just right to command the actions of him, who is called a slave, it is evident that the latter cannot be accountable for those crimes, which the former may order him to commit. Now as every reasonable being is accountable for his actions, it is evident, that such a right cannot justly exist, and that human liberty, of course, is beyond the possibility either of sale or purchase. Add to this, that, whenever you sell the liberty of a man, you have the power only of alluding to the body: the mind cannot be confined or bound: it will be free, though its mansion be beset with chains. But if, in every sale of the human species, you are under the necessity of considering your slave in this abstracted light; of alluding only to the body, and of making no allusion to the mind; you are under the necessity also of treating him, in the same moment, as a brute, and of abusing therefore that nature, which cannot otherwise be considered, than in the double capacity of soul and body.
(II.iv, pp. 70-1)",2011-05-26 19:17:16 UTC,"""Add to this, that, whenever you sell the liberty of a man, you have the power only of alluding to the body: the mind cannot be confined or bound: it will be free, though its mansion be beset with chains.""",2010-07-20 20:56:34 UTC,"Part II, Chap. IV","",2011-05-26,Fetters,"Mixed metaphor: mansion chained. (The body here is chained, not the mind?)",Contributed by Dorothy Couchman,17981,6753
"After all, without a due regard to Accent (in which the very Life of Language consists) Speech becomes harsh, disagreeable, and often unintelligible. And therefore the greatest Care ought to be discharged in making Youth not only early acquainted with the Nature and Beauty of proper Accent, but also, that they be put to Account for the due Pronunciation of every Sound, with its just Quantity; and be thereby enabled to pronounce by Rule, and not at mere Random; which will readily prevent their either imitating, or bing misled by the rude and unpolished Utterance of the Vulgar. And though this Method (as not being universally practised in our Schools) may not at first View command Attention it justly merits, yet we may rest assured of its advantageous Consequence from Experience, as well as from the Study and Practice of the greatest Orator: For a perfect Knowledge in these, and a proper Attention to Emphasis, will not only lead to, but, at last, actually produce what includes them all, such a masterly Elocution, as can hold the Passions captive, and surprize the Soul itself in its inmost Recesses.
(p. 65)",2014-07-09 14:54:02 UTC,"""For a perfect Knowledge in these, and a proper Attention to Emphasis, will not only lead to, but, at last, actually produce what includes them all, such a masterly Elocution, as can hold the Passions captive, and surprize the Soul itself in its inmost Recesses.""",2014-07-09 14:54:02 UTC,"","",,Fetters and Rooms,"","Reading Murray Cohen's Sensible Words (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1977), 107.
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