| Diana Donald - 2007 - 402 页
...human sensibility a human application. He tries to imagine the millions of fellow-creatures born to slavery; 'but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me ... I took a single captive'.72 It was this single imaginary man, evoked in Sterne's word picture,... | |
| American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - 1899 - 340 页
...full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellowcreatures born to no inheritance but slavery; but finding, however affecting...could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of said groups in it did but distract me — I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in... | |
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