All 3 Uses
maxim
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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- The frequency of this has had the effect to establish among the slaves the maxim, that a still tongue makes a wise head.†
Chpt 3 *
- Mr. Gore acted fully up to the maxim laid down by slaveholders,—"It is better that a dozen slaves should suffer under the lash, than that the overseer should be convicted, in the presence of the slaves, of having been at fault."†
Chpt 4
- His maxim was, Behave well or behave ill, it is the duty of a master occasionally to whip a slave, to remind him of his master's authority.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(maxim) a short saying that expresses a general truth or principle
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)