Of course a white man may, with perfect impunity, defraud or abuse a negro to any extent, provided he is careful to avoid the presence of any of his own caste, at the execution of his contract, or the indulgence of his malice.
It has contributed greatly to turn the public eye off from the sin--from the inherent and necessary evils of slavery to incidental evils, which the abuse of it might be expected to occasion.
But he knows that the bad will abuse it by making swords and daggers.
And not only do they abuse to their hearts' content in their exuberant excitement, but they use personal violence to person and property all along the road.
If they do not succeed in bagging the expected game, they abuse him.
The term son of ten fathers is used as a term of abuse among Nayars to this day.
A curious feature of it is that the people going to attend it are distinctly rowdy, feeling that they have a right to abuse in the vilest and filthiest terms everyone they see on the way--perhaps a few days' march.
He proceeds in his abuse of me, as if he had been very fortunate in all his former reproaches of me; but I will brand him with the most thoroughly deserved marks of infamy, and pillory him for the everlasting recollection of posterity.
In the first place, how has he heaped abuse on Caesar, in terms drawn from his recollection of his own debauchery and profligacy.
When you recollected that all this was done by me, would you have dared to provoke me by abuse if you had not been trusting to those swords which we behold?
We have endeavored in our deliberations and in our findings to be guided strictly by the instructions delivered to us by the Court in regard to the liability of a citizen under the law for the abuse of the privilege of free speech.
Whether he did the job of his own volition and spontaneous motion or not, he did it, and did it well; he noted him closely to "abuse him scientifically.
Nature and the Bible"--replied the Missionary; but he could get no further, as at the mention of the Book exclamations of doubt and of abuse were uttered.
Some of the party then began to rummage every drawer and corner of the house, amidst the very volubleabuse of my wife.
I had been told that she was jealous of almost every female that he spoke to, so I feared if I went with him she might abuse me about it another time.
A palace and a hell, a grim monument to regal egoism, created to minister to the inflated vanity of a despot, an eternal warning to mankind that the abuse of absolute power is an accursed thing.
In a moment of victory it is difficult not to make an abuse of power.
To attain its object, it should have exiled the leading conspirators only; but it rarely happens that a party does not abuse the dictatorship; and that, possessing the power, it believes not in the dangers of indulgence.
The butterfly became very indignant at this abuse from the mandarin.
Yet these are pearls to your lampooning rhimes, Ye abuse yourselves more dully than the times.
Nor do they state that the prisoners assailed the soldiery with abuse and with stones.
She set down all Satan’s blasphemies with the utmost frankness, and the proficiency he displayed in vulgar language and Billingsgate abuse is surprising.
This was not unreasonable; but he proceeded to abuse the whole sex, which would be ungracious in any one, but in him was peculiarly ungrateful.
Silver prizes for this and other activities, were wont to be carried about, by certain circumforanei, or set up at bride-ales, but time or their abuse hath now worn them out of use.
There, injunctions have generally been granted on the theory of a breach of contract, or of an abuse of confidence.
When the patent office is used, however, for an extension of the nostrum business, founded on the abuse of patent and trade-mark laws, it becomes a menace to the public health.
When the patent office is used, however, for an extention of the nostrum business, founded on the abuse of patent and trade-mark laws, it becomes a menace to the public health.
Labienus, the same who was afterwards one of his best lieutenants, to get up a criminal accusation which was a direct attack upon the abuse of one of the prerogatives of the government.
The island was taken, and the conquerors imposed a new contribution on Carthage for having captured some merchant vessels navigating in those latitudes--a scandalous abuse of power, which Polybius loudly condemns.
People abuse the Senate; the equestrian order stands aloof from it.
The law by similar provisions diminished the abuse of free legations (legationes liberae).
Every abuse has deep roots in the past, and we may find the original cause of the power of the praetorians under the emperors in the primitive organisation and functions of the centuries established by Servius Tullius.
I do not mention the name of the book, lest some of my acquaintance should abuse me, and others it, more than either deserves.
Their abuse of it was their own action, and the action consisted not in conforming to, but in contravening, God's will.
Why did He create a class of moral creatures whom He could not but foresee to be certain to abuse their power of choice between obedience and disobedience to His law?
It resulted from the exercise of an original good gift which He had bestowed on certain of His creatures, who could abuse that gift, but were not necessitated to abuse it.
Whoever affirms that the will is its own law must grossly abuse language, and signify by the term will what others mean by reason and will, conscience and will.
God bestows on His creatures only good gifts, but one of the best of all these gifts includes in its very nature ability to abuse and pervert itself and all things else.
But the whole scheme of Christianity must seem to those who accept it the strongest possible of practical grounds for the Divine permission of man's abuse of freewill.
Every Friday the poor man was therefore compelled to listen to all sorts of reproach and abuse from his wife, because he could not provide her with what was indispensable for the holy Sabbath.
The abuseof Rabbinism has, as will be seen, a twofold source.
It is not to be denied that, however sound may be the basis of such a worship, it is subject to abuse just as much as the other.
The second source of the abuse of Rabbinism is to be found in the manners and customs of other nations, in whose neighbourhood the Jews have lived, or among whom they have been gradually scattered since the fall of the Jewish state.
The abuseof piety on the part of the so-called penitents.
If he would abuse the other side a little more, and stick in a little tinsel and calcium light he would be great.
Peter had found, whenever the papers really abused him, that Leonore was doubly tender to him, the more, if he pretended that the attacks and abuse pained him.
And when Mignon again egged him on to the ascent, on the pretext that you never had it twice, he violently combated this theory and with infinite abuse of the doctors instanced various cases.
He looked at her skin without being tempted to abuse the opportunity, as that ass of a Prulliere would have been.
And with that a strange ardent prayer, which was almost religious, went up for Lusignan, while people heaped abuse on Spirit and his dismal mute of a jockey.
The rage of the baffled Roper came down like a river in flood, a foul torrent of abuse in Dutch and Kaffir mingled with English.
Immediately afterwards, he let loose a storm of abuseupon the umfans, who began to scuttle round the camp like frightened squirrels.
And I am subject to think, It was a meer Rogery in the Combination, or Club-council of the Taylors, to Abuse the Women in That Fashion, in Revenge of some of the Curst Dames their Wives.
