Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American ReformersMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855 - 396 páginas |
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... feel the old earth jar under your feet— that is music , and poetry , and life . And if the lightning strikes you - what of that ! It won't hurt you . " Favored man , " truly , as Uncle Pope says , " by touch ethereal slain . " A light ...
... feel the old earth jar under your feet— that is music , and poetry , and life . And if the lightning strikes you - what of that ! It won't hurt you . " Favored man , " truly , as Uncle Pope says , " by touch ethereal slain . " A light ...
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... feeling which at that time overspread the country . His greatest comfort during his illnesss was music , of which he once said : " Oh ! this music is one of God's dearest gifts . I do wish men would make more of it . How humanizing it ...
... feeling which at that time overspread the country . His greatest comfort during his illnesss was music , of which he once said : " Oh ! this music is one of God's dearest gifts . I do wish men would make more of it . How humanizing it ...
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... feel at it ! To see those harp strings he meant should be wakened to loye bordering on di- vine , strung and swept to mortal hate and butchery . " During the few days which preceded his death , Mr. Rogers suffered the most excruciating ...
... feel at it ! To see those harp strings he meant should be wakened to loye bordering on di- vine , strung and swept to mortal hate and butchery . " During the few days which preceded his death , Mr. Rogers suffered the most excruciating ...
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... feeling was ever in him , or ever can get into him . He esteems a man just according to his moral and intellectual worth , for what he does , or aims to do . He loves men because they are men ; not because they are white , or rich , or ...
... feeling was ever in him , or ever can get into him . He esteems a man just according to his moral and intellectual worth , for what he does , or aims to do . He loves men because they are men ; not because they are white , or rich , or ...
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... feel in- tensely , cannot understand the subtler methods of reaching the souls of men . People who have read the sermons of Mr. Parker are usually disappointed in hearing him preach or lecture . He is not an accomplished orator ; in an ...
... feel in- tensely , cannot understand the subtler methods of reaching the souls of men . People who have read the sermons of Mr. Parker are usually disappointed in hearing him preach or lecture . He is not an accomplished orator ; in an ...
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Página 180 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 41 - 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.
Página 249 - Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and child-birth 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 she heard the little...
Página 103 - 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.
Página 43 - ... liberty and equality hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.
Página 245 - Alone unto our Father's will One thought hath reconciled : That He whose love exceedeth ours Hath taken home his child. Fold her, O Father ! in thine arms. And let her henceforth be A messenger of love between Our human hearts and thee.
Página 247 - 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...
Página 43 - To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy— a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace...
Página 56 - 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.
Página 245 - Father ! in thine arms, And let her henceforth be A messenger of love between Our human hearts and Thee. Still let her mild rebuking stand Between us and the wrong, And her dear memory serve to make Our faith in Goodness strong. And grant that she who, trembling, here Distrusted all her powers, May welcome to her holier home The well beloved of ours.