...later Dr Samuel Johnson was impressed by the situation: "I love the University of Salamancha," he said, "for when the Spaniards were in doubt as to the lawfulness of their conquering America, the University of Salamancha gave it as their opinion that it was not lawful."63 Vitoria's work- which also examines...

...moved one of the greatest intellectuals of imperialist England in the eighteenth century to remark: "I love the University of Salamanca; for when the...in doubt as to the lawfulness of their conquering 141 Cf. with the process of diffusing Buddhism from India to China. 142 Hanke, p. 40; see also Eppstein....

...Johnson, "upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford," had offered the toast: " 'Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.' "5 Johnson deeply resented the clamor of American colonists for freedom as nothing less than revolting...

...James Boswell records that 'Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, "Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies."' Johnson said that moral right was being forced to give way to political convenience: 'No man is by...

...always opposed slavery, and once, when he was with "some very grave men at Oxford," his toast had been, "Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies." Boswell professed himself shocked. Johnson's "violent prejudice against our West Indian and American...

...for the sake of a poetic conceit. Far from it. In the Life itself we hear Johnson at Oxford toasting 'here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies' and then, a little later, Boswell the narrator sharply marks his distance from his friend on this issue....

...extensively from Anthony Benezet. Other Englishmen took strong stands. Dr. Samuel Johnson toasted, "Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies." Even the House of Commons, under Quaker prompting, appointed a commission to look into the slave trade.21...

...wealth' (Bate, 1977, 192-3). Boswell has Johnson startling some 'very grave men at Oxford' with the toast 'here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies' (ibid., p. 194). Boswell's attitude was the routine mercantile self-interested one, dressed up as liberal...

...Johnson was hostile: he stunned 'some very grave men at Oxford', Boswell reports, by proposing the toast: 'Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies': Hill, Boswell's Life of Johnson, vol. iii, p. 200. 124 Vincent Carretta (ed.), Unchained Voices (1996),...

...backing for his venture.15 He told Boswell, in the same vein, UI love the University of Salamancha; for when the Spaniards were in doubt as to the lawfulness of their conquering America, the University of Salamancha gave it as their opinion that it was not lawful."16 Johnson never relies on the infamy of...