Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American ReformersMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855 - 412 страница |
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... course , he was fitted to adorn any station in the coun- try . He became thoroughly acquainted with law , and yet its practice was always distasteful to him . He seldom appeared in the courts to plead , for his spirit was of too fine ...
... course , he was fitted to adorn any station in the coun- try . He became thoroughly acquainted with law , and yet its practice was always distasteful to him . He seldom appeared in the courts to plead , for his spirit was of too fine ...
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... course , he had to meet the cry " you are before the age ! " and he answered it as follows : BEFORE THE AGE . " You are too fast . " Well , friends , you are too slow . " You are altogether ahead of the times . " Well , you are alto ...
... course , he had to meet the cry " you are before the age ! " and he answered it as follows : BEFORE THE AGE . " You are too fast . " Well , friends , you are too slow . " You are altogether ahead of the times . " Well , you are alto ...
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... courses , are not surpassed in poetic beauty in the writings of any living clergyman . The fact is , The- odore Parker is a poet . He has the intense and con- suming fire ; he has also the gentleness and the love of the true poet . He ...
... courses , are not surpassed in poetic beauty in the writings of any living clergyman . The fact is , The- odore Parker is a poet . He has the intense and con- suming fire ; he has also the gentleness and the love of the true poet . He ...
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... course stopped ; every one had his own work to do ; and no one could do the work of the other and have his own go on the same time . Mr. Covey was at the house , about one hundred yards from the treading - yard where we were fanning ...
... course stopped ; every one had his own work to do ; and no one could do the work of the other and have his own go on the same time . Mr. Covey was at the house , about one hundred yards from the treading - yard where we were fanning ...
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... course had little time to devote to mental toil . In the month of August , 1841 , an anti - slavery meeting was held in Nantucket . Some of the most eloquent anti - slavery orators were present , and in an humble place sat Frederick ...
... course had little time to devote to mental toil . In the month of August , 1841 , an anti - slavery meeting was held in Nantucket . Some of the most eloquent anti - slavery orators were present , and in an humble place sat Frederick ...
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Страница 190 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Страница 115 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will...
Страница 263 - But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot, And...
Страница 300 - The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable...
Страница 51 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Страница 115 - I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Страница 53 - What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.
Страница 51 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
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Страница 66 - THERE'S a good time coming, boys, A good time coming : We may not live to see the day, But earth shall glisten in the ray Of the good time coming. Cannon balls may aid the truth, But thought's a weapon stronger ; We'll win our battle by its aid ; Wait a little longer.