Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers. by David W. [!] BartlettMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855 - 412 страница |
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... political freedom and of natural justice , em- bodied.in that declaration of independence , extended to us ? and am I , therefore , called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar , and to confess the benefits , and ...
... political freedom and of natural justice , em- bodied.in that declaration of independence , extended to us ? and am I , therefore , called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar , and to confess the benefits , and ...
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... politics - read the political newspapers eagerly and carefully , and was much more of a politician than a scholar . Before 58 MODERN AGITATORS .
... politics - read the political newspapers eagerly and carefully , and was much more of a politician than a scholar . Before 58 MODERN AGITATORS .
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... political and saintly duty , without which there can be no sal- vation to the Union . He does insist that a democracy which crushes liberty is a despotism , and that a religion without hu- manity is not christianity . He teaches that ...
... political and saintly duty , without which there can be no sal- vation to the Union . He does insist that a democracy which crushes liberty is a despotism , and that a religion without hu- manity is not christianity . He teaches that ...
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... political , anti - slavery views , who , nevertheless , respect and love him . Yet he does not ever flinch a hair from rigid adherence to principle . HARRIET BEECHER STOWE . We have no new information to 72 MODERN AGITATORS .
... political , anti - slavery views , who , nevertheless , respect and love him . Yet he does not ever flinch a hair from rigid adherence to principle . HARRIET BEECHER STOWE . We have no new information to 72 MODERN AGITATORS .
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... Political squabbles , though of not half the importance , have always taken a more vital hold of society in general than theolo- gical discussions , and it is owing perhaps to the rea- son that the true position of this distinguished ...
... Political squabbles , though of not half the importance , have always taken a more vital hold of society in general than theolo- gical discussions , and it is owing perhaps to the rea- son that the true position of this distinguished ...
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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.