Thomas Day
Thomas Day
Thomas Daywas a British author and abolitionist. He was well known for the children's book The History of Sandford and Mertonwhich emphasized Rousseauvian educational ideals...
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Let us remember, there is a people, who share the government and name of Britons; among whom the cruelty of Sparta is renewed without its virtue.
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The legislation doesn't grant us any of the authority we need, or power and control to deal with our cost structure.
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Today, we are making a bold statement about how we feel about the environment.
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There are certain forms in which vice appears not only monstrous, but ridiculous; the cruelty of Nero is more disgusting than that of Tiberius.
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But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
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We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
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In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
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But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
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The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
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I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
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When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.