"Devoir" Quotes from Famous Books
... I am master of slaves, of my own purchase! I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living here without them. I will not, I cannot justify it. However capable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue, as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my ... — The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various |