The Variety Book Containing Life Sketches and ReminiscencesWashington Press, 1892 - 243 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abby Kelley Abington Congregational Church alcohol answer Anti-Slavery Society asked ballot believe better blessing Boston boys Brockton brother cause Chicago Christ Christian Temperance Union church committee convention dollars drink elected Elizabeth Elizabeth Cady Stanton equal evil father favor friends girls give heart heaven high license honor human hundred James John justice Kansas labor lady legislature LEWIS FORD Lewis Hayden liquor traffic living Lloyd Garrison Lucy Stone Mamma Mary Massachusetts meeting ministers moral mother National National Temperance Hospital never North Abington organized Packard person Plymouth Plymouth County political President pro-slavery Prohibition party prohibitionists prohibitory reform S. L. Beal saloon Samuel Sauk Center sisters slave slavery smoking spirit street things thousand tion tobacco town truth vote Wendell Phillips William Lloyd Garrison woman suffrage women
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 110 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Seite 43 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that "while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Seite 89 - For woman is not undeveloped man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference...
Seite 176 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Seite 201 - Our fathers to their graves have gone ; Their strife is past, — their triumph won ; But sterner trials wait the race Which rises in their honoured place, — A moral warfare with the crime And folly of an evil time. So let it be. In God's own might We gird us for the coming fight. And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons He has given, — • The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.
Seite 7 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Seite 222 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
Seite 172 - It would hardly be exaggeration to say, that all the great truths relating to society and government have been first heard in the solemn protests of martyred patriotism, or the loud cries of crushed and starving labor. The law has been always wrong. Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest ; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunder-storm, against the organized selfishness of human nature. And this...
Seite 129 - District I" comprises the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and the District of Columbia; (c) "Districts II-IV" means all of the States of the United States except those States within District I and District V; (d) "Districts I-IV...
Seite 183 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till, o'er our ransomed nature, The Lamb, for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.