Peculiar: A Tale of the Great TransitionCarleton, 1864 - 500 páginas |
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... holds a pen with which she listlessly draws figures , crosses , circles and triangles , faces and trees , on the blotting - paper that partly covers a letter which she has been inditing . March , having come A canary - bird , intoxi- A ...
... holds a pen with which she listlessly draws figures , crosses , circles and triangles , faces and trees , on the blotting - paper that partly covers a letter which she has been inditing . March , having come A canary - bird , intoxi- A ...
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... hold this trust from God , and in its occupancy are prepared to stand or fall . " — Rev. Dr. Palmer of New Orleans , 1861 . THE HE next morning Charlton sat in his office , calculating his percentage on a transaction in which he had ...
... hold this trust from God , and in its occupancy are prepared to stand or fall . " — Rev. Dr. Palmer of New Orleans , 1861 . THE HE next morning Charlton sat in his office , calculating his percentage on a transaction in which he had ...
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... hold , that man , as man , is an end unto himself , and that to use him as a brute means to the ends of other men is to outrage the laws of God . I take my stand far above the question of happiness or un- happiness . Have you noticed ...
... hold , that man , as man , is an end unto himself , and that to use him as a brute means to the ends of other men is to outrage the laws of God . I take my stand far above the question of happiness or un- happiness . Have you noticed ...
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... hold his stocks , he was compelled to make heavy sacrifices , and then , in trying to hedge , he heaped loss on loss . He had to sell his acres on the Hud- son , then his town house , finally his horses ; and at sixty- nine we find him ...
... hold his stocks , he was compelled to make heavy sacrifices , and then , in trying to hedge , he heaped loss on loss . He had to sell his acres on the Hud- son , then his town house , finally his horses ; and at sixty- nine we find him ...
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... hold of under the ground . Now , Colonel , if you refuse my terms , I'm fully resolved to do one of these two things , probably the first , for I have scruples about the second . " - 66 “ The cussed nigger talks as ef he was readin ...
... hold of under the ground . Now , Colonel , if you refuse my terms , I'm fully resolved to do one of these two things , probably the first , for I have scruples about the second . " - 66 “ The cussed nigger talks as ef he was readin ...
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Abolitionism 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 Street suddenly tell thar there's thought thousand dollars tion told took Toussaint Vance walked wife Wigman window Winslow woman words wounded Yankee
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