Uncle Sam's Emancipation: Earthly Care, a Heavenly Discipline, and Other SketchesNegro History Press, 1858 - 124 Seiten |
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... dark night , as he was driving home with his wife and Mrs. Stowe in the carriage , the whole party was upset over a bank about fifteen feet high . They had no sooner extricated themselves from the wreck , than Mrs. Beecher and Mrs ...
... dark night , as he was driving home with his wife and Mrs. Stowe in the carriage , the whole party was upset over a bank about fifteen feet high . They had no sooner extricated themselves from the wreck , than Mrs. Beecher and Mrs ...
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... dark groundwork of his Puritanical reasoning . Smiles and tears chased each other over the faces of many in the audience . His peroration was one of great beauty and power . I have heard him hundreds of times since , and he has never ...
... dark groundwork of his Puritanical reasoning . Smiles and tears chased each other over the faces of many in the audience . His peroration was one of great beauty and power . I have heard him hundreds of times since , and he has never ...
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... dark picture of possible reverses which the slave system hangs over the lot of the most fa- voured slaves , never occurred to him . Accord- ingly , at six o'clock that evening , a light tap at the door of Mr. B.'s parlor , announced the ...
... dark picture of possible reverses which the slave system hangs over the lot of the most fa- voured slaves , never occurred to him . Accord- ingly , at six o'clock that evening , a light tap at the door of Mr. B.'s parlor , announced the ...
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... Darkness comes over me , My rest a stone , Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer , my God , to Thee , — Nearer to Thee ! There let my way appear Steps unto heav'n ; All that Thou sendest me In mercy giv'n ; Angels to beckon me Nearer , my God ...
... Darkness comes over me , My rest a stone , Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer , my God , to Thee , — Nearer to Thee ! There let my way appear Steps unto heav'n ; All that Thou sendest me In mercy giv'n ; Angels to beckon me Nearer , my God ...
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... dark - eyed girl , about a year old , playing with a great shaggy dog . As I stopped , the man looked up from his work and turned admiringly toward his little companion , as much as to say , " See what I have got here ! " " Yes ...
... dark - eyed girl , about a year old , playing with a great shaggy dog . As I stopped , the man looked up from his work and turned admiringly toward his little companion , as much as to say , " See what I have got here ! " " Yes ...
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Seite 55 - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee...
Seite 55 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Seite 80 - So of the tender, weeping child is made the callous, heartless man ; of the all-believing child, the sneering sceptic ; of the beautiful and modest, the shameless and abandoned ; and this is what the world does for the little one. There was a time when the divine One stood on earth, and little children sought to draw near to him. But harsh human beings stood between him and them, forbidding their approach. Ah, has it not always been so? Do not even we, with our hard and unsubdued feelings, our worldly...
Seite 87 - Let — not — your — heart — be — troubled. In — my — Father's — house — are — many — mansions.
Seite 99 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
Seite 86 - ... she has toiled over the last piece of work which she can procure from the shop, for the man has told her that after this he can furnish no more ; and the little money that is to come from this is already portioned out in her own mind, and after that she has no human prospect of support.
Seite 79 - If I had a child," says the precise man, "you should see." He does have a child, and his child tears up his papers, tumbles over his things, and pulls his nose, like all other children, and what has the precise man to say for himself? Nothing — he is like everybody else, "a little child shall lead him !" Poor little children ! they bring and teach us...
Seite 81 - ... radiance which might unfold it for paradise? "Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not," is still the voice of the. Son of God, but the cold world still closes around and forbids. When of old...
Seite 82 - What a beautiful edition! what superb bindings ! " and then lay it down again. And the master of the house was lounging on a sofa, looking over a late review — for he was a man of leisure, taste, and reading — but, then, as to reading the Bible ! — that forms, we suppose, no part of the pretensions of a man of letters. The Bible — certainly he considered it a very respectable book — a fine specimen of ancient literature — an admirable book of moral precepts; but, then, as to its divine...
Seite 81 - Wouldst thou know, 0 parent, what is that faith which unlocks heaven ? Go not to wrangling polemics, or creeds and forms of theology, but draw to thy bosom thy little one, and read in that clear trusting eye the lesson of eternal life. Be only to thy God as thy child is to thee, and all is done ! Blessed shalt thou be indeed, " when a little child shall lead thee !