Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American ReformersMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856 - 396 páginas |
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... manner , for such is not the case . We have heard him pray when every word sounded like the moaning sob of a child upon the heart of its mother ; so too we have heard him launch his electrical elo- quence at the heads of notorious ...
... manner , for such is not the case . We have heard him pray when every word sounded like the moaning sob of a child upon the heart of its mother ; so too we have heard him launch his electrical elo- quence at the heads of notorious ...
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... manner lays the subject be- fore his congregation . By and by he warms up with his subject . Is it upon intemperance or slavery ? With what vigor does he expose the wickedness of the rum - traffic , or the traffic in human flesh ! How ...
... manner lays the subject be- fore his congregation . By and by he warms up with his subject . Is it upon intemperance or slavery ? With what vigor does he expose the wickedness of the rum - traffic , or the traffic in human flesh ! How ...
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... manner , as it is for some clergymen to preach stupidities . Occasionally a sen- tence drops from his lips which starts the smile upon the faces of his audience . He intended no wit , but the odd comparison , or the sparkling sentence ...
... manner , as it is for some clergymen to preach stupidities . Occasionally a sen- tence drops from his lips which starts the smile upon the faces of his audience . He intended no wit , but the odd comparison , or the sparkling sentence ...
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... manner did not change my first impression . The ceremonies preliminary to the sermon were dispatched in rather a summary way . A petition in the long prayer was expressed so pithily I have never forgotten it . " I forget now what ...
... manner did not change my first impression . The ceremonies preliminary to the sermon were dispatched in rather a summary way . A petition in the long prayer was expressed so pithily I have never forgotten it . " I forget now what ...
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... manner ; with him the matter . When he would demolish a vice or praise a virtue he first paints the one in hideous truth , or the other with strange beauty , until you loathe the one or love the other . He does not employ his pen in ...
... manner ; with him the matter . When he would demolish a vice or praise a virtue he first paints the one in hideous truth , or the other with strange beauty , until you loathe the one or love the other . He does not employ his pen in ...
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