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... sentiment , and it cannot be withstood . The potentate and the people perish before it ; but with it , and as its executor , they are omnipotent . I write thus , sir , to inform you of the state of mind these Indian tidings have ...
... sentiment , and it cannot be withstood . The potentate and the people perish before it ; but with it , and as its executor , they are omnipotent . I write thus , sir , to inform you of the state of mind these Indian tidings have ...
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... sentiment , " that Providence had never made that to be wise which was immoral , and that the slave - trade was as impolitic as it was unjust ; " that it was found peculiarly fatal to those I employed in it . More seamen died in that ...
... sentiment , " that Providence had never made that to be wise which was immoral , and that the slave - trade was as impolitic as it was unjust ; " that it was found peculiarly fatal to those I employed in it . More seamen died in that ...
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... sentiments . Such was the civility of Sparta and the Dorian race , whilst it was defective in some of the chief elements of ours . That of Athens , again , lay in an intellect dedicated to beauty . That of Asia Minor in poetry , music ...
... sentiments . Such was the civility of Sparta and the Dorian race , whilst it was defective in some of the chief elements of ours . That of Athens , again , lay in an intellect dedicated to beauty . That of Asia Minor in poetry , music ...
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... sentiment . Other revolutions have been the in- surrection of the oppressed ; this was the repent- ance of the tyrant . It was the masters revolting from their mastery . The slave - holder said , ' I will not hold slaves . ' The end was ...
... sentiment . Other revolutions have been the in- surrection of the oppressed ; this was the repent- ance of the tyrant . It was the masters revolting from their mastery . The slave - holder said , ' I will not hold slaves . ' The end was ...
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... sentiment will scatter them forever . I am sure that the good and wise elders , the ardent and generous youth , will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to with- draw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters ...
... sentiment will scatter them forever . I am sure that the good and wise elders , the ardent and generous youth , will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to with- draw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters ...
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American better Boston brave Captain Charles Sumner church citizens civilization Colonel Concord Concord company Court crime defend duty emancipation EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION Emerson England English English Commonwealth event eyes F. B. Sanborn fame feel freedom friends FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW genius gentlemen give governor Granville Sharpe heart honor human immoral Indian interest Jamaica John Brown justice Kansas labor land lecture liberty lived look Lord Lord Mansfield mankind Massachusetts ment mind moral nation nature negro never occasion opinion party peace persons planters poem political poor principle question race regiment religion religious Samuel Hoar sentiment Shakspeare Simon Willard slavery slaves society soul speak speech spirit statute suffered Theodore Parker things thought tion Town Records trade truth Union virtue vote Webster whilst whole woman women words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 314 - Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
Seite 611 - Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Seite 588 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Seite 396 - Boston Hymn READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY I, 1863 The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Seite 216 - Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us. Burns, Shelley, were with us— they watch from their graves! He alone breaks from the van and the freemen. He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves! We shall march prospering, — not thro...
Seite 215 - Of all we loved and honored, naught Save power remains, — A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone : from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!
Seite 598 - I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons.
Seite 598 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done — as I have always freely admitted I have done — in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right Now,. if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with...
Seite 340 - Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil Amid the dust of books to find her, Content at last, for guerdon of their toil, With the cast mantle she hath left behind her.
Seite 1 - I like a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be.
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