Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American ReformersC.M. Saxton, 1859 - 396 páginas |
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... seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose . The louder she screamed the harder he whipped ; and where the blood ran fastest there he whipped longest . He would whip her to make her scream , and whip her to make her hush ...
... seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose . The louder she screamed the harder he whipped ; and where the blood ran fastest there he whipped longest . He would whip her to make her scream , and whip her to make her hush ...
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... seemed almost miracu- lous , that an ignorant slave should possess such powers . Few living orators surpass Frederick Douglass in declamatory eloquence . He is not so argumentative , so logical , as many of his cotemporaries , but few ...
... seemed almost miracu- lous , that an ignorant slave should possess such powers . Few living orators surpass Frederick Douglass in declamatory eloquence . He is not so argumentative , so logical , as many of his cotemporaries , but few ...
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... seemed drawn with “ a pen of iron and the point of a diamond ; " his considerate , gray eyes , that moved over ob- jects as if it were not best to be in a hurry about seeing ; the circumspect opening and shutting of his mouth ; his down ...
... seemed drawn with “ a pen of iron and the point of a diamond ; " his considerate , gray eyes , that moved over ob- jects as if it were not best to be in a hurry about seeing ; the circumspect opening and shutting of his mouth ; his down ...
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... seemed likely to reign on to the end of the chapter . But my uncle's latest wife left Aunt Bet- sey a much less tractable subject than ever before had fallen to her lot . Little Edward was the child of my uncle's old age , and a ...
... seemed likely to reign on to the end of the chapter . But my uncle's latest wife left Aunt Bet- sey a much less tractable subject than ever before had fallen to her lot . Little Edward was the child of my uncle's old age , and a ...
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... seemed to exert himself to be particularly diligent and enter- taining . " Edward ! -Edward must not play Sunday ! " his father would call out ; and then Edward would hold up his curly head , and look as grave as the catechism ; but in ...
... seemed to exert himself to be particularly diligent and enter- taining . " Edward ! -Edward must not play Sunday ! " his father would call out ; and then Edward would hold up his curly head , and look as grave as the catechism ; but in ...
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Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers David W. Bartlett Vista completa - 1855 |
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