Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers. by David W. [!] BartlettMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... took his degree in 1816. He shortly afterward engaged in the study of the law , and practiced it in his native state . By nature possessed of extraordinary talents , when to these was added the discipline of a collegiate course , he was ...
... took his degree in 1816. He shortly afterward engaged in the study of the law , and practiced it in his native state . By nature possessed of extraordinary talents , when to these was added the discipline of a collegiate course , he was ...
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... took up the hickory slat with which Hughes had been striking off the half - bushel measure , and with it gave me a heavy blow upon the head , making a large wound , and the blood ran freely ; and with this again told me to get up . I ...
... took up the hickory slat with which Hughes had been striking off the half - bushel measure , and with it gave me a heavy blow upon the head , making a large wound , and the blood ran freely ; and with this again told me to get up . I ...
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... took up the subject of corporeal punishment in schools , opposing the customary use of the rod , with a good deal of zeal . For three years , Codding was teacher in the Eng- lish department of Canandaigua academy , at the same time ...
... took up the subject of corporeal punishment in schools , opposing the customary use of the rod , with a good deal of zeal . For three years , Codding was teacher in the Eng- lish department of Canandaigua academy , at the same time ...
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... took up their resi- dence in one of the buildings connected with the seminary , and devoted to the use of the professors . For a long term of years this was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stowe . It is not necessary for us to give a history ...
... took up their resi- dence in one of the buildings connected with the seminary , and devoted to the use of the professors . For a long term of years this was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stowe . It is not necessary for us to give a history ...
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... took it into his head to practice either addition , or subtraction , or multiplication on its sum total . This Aunt Betsey aforenamed , was the neatest and most ef ficient piece of human machinery that ever operated in forty places at ...
... took it into his head to practice either addition , or subtraction , or multiplication on its sum total . This Aunt Betsey aforenamed , was the neatest and most ef ficient piece of human machinery that ever operated in forty places at ...
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Página 190 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Página 115 - 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. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will...
Página 263 - But care and sorrow, and childbirth 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...
Página 300 - The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable...
Página 51 - 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 115 - 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 53 - What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.
Página 51 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Página 261 - 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 66 - 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.