The grand mistake, as we apprehend, of those who maintain that slaveholding is itself a crime, is, that they do not discriminate between slaveholding in itself considered, and its accessories at any particular time or place.
We have already remarked, that slavery, in itself considered, is a state of bondage, and nothing more.
The argument from the conduct of Christ and his immediate followers, seems to us decisive on the point, that slaveholding, in itself considered, is not a crime.
It is by its nature purely subjective; so that in itself considered, apart from the intellectual instinct and the light of evidence, it testifies nothing with respect to objects.
The me in itself considered, is not a luminous point; it supports the fabric of reason, but is not the rule according to which it is to be constructed.
All our knowledge is by representation, without which it would be inconceivable; and yet what is representation in itself considered?
The pleasing or displeasing of the sensitive appetite in itself considered, is neither sin nor duty, good nor evil; but as commanded or forbidden by some law of God; which is not absolutely done.
Who shall decide which is beautiful, or otherwise, in itself considered?
For neither of them is forbidden, in itself considered, nor evil, but by accident.
And that either simply in itself considered; or else comparatively, as excluding, or not including, other names.
I mean not to the corrupted nature of man, but to nature as rational in itself considered.
Between the Spirit in itself considered, and the Scripture in itself.
We may, however, conceive not of an object in itself considered, but of the properties and relations of objects in the abstract.
It is a conception, not a perception or an intuition, and it is a simple conception of the object as it is or is conceived to be, in itself considered, and not in relation to other objects.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "itself considered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
