Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers. by David W. [!] BartlettMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855 - 412 страница |
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... early spring - bird more sweet and beautiful to his ear than the measured ca- dences of more modern poets . He had room in his heart for everything good and gentle , sublime or beautiful . At last the anti - slavery agitation arose ...
... early spring - bird more sweet and beautiful to his ear than the measured ca- dences of more modern poets . He had room in his heart for everything good and gentle , sublime or beautiful . At last the anti - slavery agitation arose ...
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... earliest of the anti- slavery agitators of this country , and one of the purest . But it may be doubted if he was fitted to be a suc- . cessful agitator at the time when he lived . He had a splendid intellect and a great heart , but the ...
... earliest of the anti- slavery agitators of this country , and one of the purest . But it may be doubted if he was fitted to be a suc- . cessful agitator at the time when he lived . He had a splendid intellect and a great heart , but the ...
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... early May morning to wander past this pleas- ant spot , very likely in the garden you will see a man in a plain smock frock , hard at work . He is rather short in stature , rather slender in frame , and if you catch a glance of his eye ...
... early May morning to wander past this pleas- ant spot , very likely in the garden you will see a man in a plain smock frock , hard at work . He is rather short in stature , rather slender in frame , and if you catch a glance of his eye ...
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... early part of the year 1841. We will make a single quotation from this sermon , which will indicate its character : " It has been assumed at the onset , it would seem , with no sufficient reason , without the smallest pretense on its ...
... early part of the year 1841. We will make a single quotation from this sermon , which will indicate its character : " It has been assumed at the onset , it would seem , with no sufficient reason , without the smallest pretense on its ...
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... early compelled to witness and experience the bitter- ness of a life of bondage . Speaking of a time when he was quite young , he says : " I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart - rending shrieks of an own aunt ...
... early compelled to witness and experience the bitter- ness of a life of bondage . Speaking of a time when he was quite young , he says : " I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart - rending shrieks of an own aunt ...
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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.
Страница 261 - He spoke of the grass and flowers and trees, Of the singing birds and the humming bees; Then talked of the haying, and wondered whether The cloud in the west would bring foul weather. And Maud forgot her...
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.