Peculiar: A Tale of the Great TransitionCarleton, 1864 - 500 páginas |
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... STORY OF ESTELLE 105 XIII . FIRE UP ! 148 XIV . WAITING FOR THE SUMMONER 151 XV . WHO SHALL BE HEIR ? 158 XVI . THE VENDUE . 165 XVII . SHALL THERE BE A WEDDING ? . 178 XVIII . THE UNITIES DISREGARDED 183 • XIX . THE WHITE SLAVE 187 XX ...
... STORY OF ESTELLE 105 XIII . FIRE UP ! 148 XIV . WAITING FOR THE SUMMONER 151 XV . WHO SHALL BE HEIR ? 158 XVI . THE VENDUE . 165 XVII . SHALL THERE BE A WEDDING ? . 178 XVIII . THE UNITIES DISREGARDED 183 • XIX . THE WHITE SLAVE 187 XX ...
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... story of Emily Bute Charlton may be briefly told . Her mother , Mrs. Danby , was descended from that John Brad- shaw who was president of the court which tried Charles the First , and who opposed a spirited resistance to the usurpation ...
... story of Emily Bute Charlton may be briefly told . Her mother , Mrs. Danby , was descended from that John Brad- shaw who was president of the court which tried Charles the First , and who opposed a spirited resistance to the usurpation ...
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... story of the cheat and the dupe ; of credu- lous innocence overmatched by heartless selfishness and fraud . The young man " of genteel appearance and address " who last week , as the newspapers tell us , got a supply of dry - goods from ...
... story of the cheat and the dupe ; of credu- lous innocence overmatched by heartless selfishness and fraud . The young man " of genteel appearance and address " who last week , as the newspapers tell us , got a supply of dry - goods from ...
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... story as I may think advisable . ” Peek did as he was invited ; but Charlton seemed interested mainly in dates and names . A more faithful reporter would have presented the memorabilia of the narrative somewhat in this form : " Was born ...
... story as I may think advisable . ” Peek did as he was invited ; but Charlton seemed interested mainly in dates and names . A more faithful reporter would have presented the memorabilia of the narrative somewhat in this form : " Was born ...
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... stories of when I was a child ; told me how my father had been sold to an Alabama man , and shot dead for trying to break away from a whipping - post . All at once she said she saw angels , drew me down to her , and dropped away quiet ...
... stories of when I was a child ; told me how my father had been sold to an Alabama man , and shot dead for trying to break away from a whipping - post . All at once she said she saw angels , drew me down to her , and dropped away quiet ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abolitionist arms Artful Dodger asked Aylesford barouche beautiful believe Berwick Berwick family Blake called Captain carriage Charles Charlton child Clara Colonel Delancy Hyde Colonel Hyde colored cried cui bono damned Yankee dear door dress drew Esha Estelle exclaimed eyes face father gentleman Gentry girl give hair hand heard heart hour hunderd hundred dollars Josephine Kenrick kiss Kunnle Laura letter look Madame Volney Maloney Massa minutes mother mulatto negro never nigger Number once Onslow Orleans passed Pat Maloney Peek Perdita person pocket Pompilard Pontiac poor quadroon Quattles Ratcliff replied returned Ripper Robson seemed Semmes slave slavery soon spirit Street suddenly tell thar thought thousand dollars tion told took Toussaint Vance walked wife Wigman window Winslow woman words wounded Yankee وو
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Página 105 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Página 108 - And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog And smote him, thus.
Página 98 - ... 5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter. 6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us ; and to be merciful, just, and pure (Science and Health, p.
Página 499 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Página 151 - Every spirit as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly clight With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For of the soul the body form doth take : For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Página 60 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 69 - ... at this day. It is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man...
Página 412 - Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. 162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. 163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love. 164 Seven times a day do I praise thee, because of thy righteous judgments.
Página 46 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate, She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate. The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near ;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait.
Página 413 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.