 In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have,...  Dictionary of Americanisms - Page 283by John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 524 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - 1859 - 634 pages
...Kansas — Lecompton Constitution — Mr. Wilson. SENATE. requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have...civilization, and refinement. It constitutes the very mud sill of society and of political government; «id you might a.« well attempt to build a house... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1858 - 778 pages
...requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have...either the one or the other, except on this mud-sill. Fortunately for the South, she found a race adapted to that purpose to her hand. A race inferior to... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1858 - 694 pages
...order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a claw you must have, or you would not have that other class...either the one or the other, except on this mud-sill. Fortunately for the South, she found a race adapted to that purpose to her haud. A race inferior to... | |
 | David Colbreth Broderick - 1858 - 16 pages
...intellect and'buf.Vftle skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class ;you mast have, or you would not have that other class which...either the one or the other except on this mud-sill. Fortunately for the South, she found a race adapted to that purpose to her hand a race inferior to... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1858 - 636 pages
...requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have...which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It conatituteii the very mud-sill of society and of political government; and you might as well attempt... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1858 - 638 pages
...requiring but a low order of intellect, and but little bkill. ltd requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class xvliiclj leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It conetinilfH the very mud-Dill of society... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1859 - 360 pages
...requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have...either the one or the other, except on this mud-sill. Fortunately for the South, she found a race adapted to that purpose to her hand—a race inferior to... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 570 pages
...— that is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect, and but little skill. Such a class yon must have, or you would not have that other class...which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitntes the very mud-sill of society and of political government ; and you might as well attempt... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1865 - 558 pages
...requiring but a low order of intellect, and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have...either the one or the other, except on this mud-sill. "'The poor ye always have with you"; for the man who lives by daily labor, and scarcely lives at that,... | |
 | 1865 - 866 pages
...requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, refinement, and civilization. It constitutes the very mudsills of society and of political government;... | |
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