Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American ReformersMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856 - 396 páginas |
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... speak of him in this volume . I have , in almost every instance , made extracts from the writings of the persons sketched , know- ing that often wise quotation will give a better clue to char- acter than pages of mere description . may ...
... speak of him in this volume . I have , in almost every instance , made extracts from the writings of the persons sketched , know- ing that often wise quotation will give a better clue to char- acter than pages of mere description . may ...
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... speak his thoughts in an original 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 ...
... speak his thoughts in an original 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 ...
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... right in the pulpit to speak of slavery . He had been attacked by the Journal of Commerce for carrying abolitionism into the church , and he thus replies : " It is vain to tell us that hundreds of 16 MODERN AGITATORS .
... right in the pulpit to speak of slavery . He had been attacked by the Journal of Commerce for carrying abolitionism into the church , and he thus replies : " It is vain to tell us that hundreds of 16 MODERN AGITATORS .
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... speak of such boundless licentious- ness , and send it to its more appropriate work of evangelizing the courtesans of Paris , or the loose virtue of Italy ; and it as- sures us that multitudes of clergymen are thanking it for such a ...
... speak of such boundless licentious- ness , and send it to its more appropriate work of evangelizing the courtesans of Paris , or the loose virtue of Italy ; and it as- sures us that multitudes of clergymen are thanking it for such a ...
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... Speak of the appetite for drink ; How easily one may distinguish a genuine lover of books from the worldly man ! With what subdued and yet glowing enthusiasm does he gaze upon the costly front of a thousand embattled volumes ! How ...
... Speak of the appetite for drink ; How easily one may distinguish a genuine lover of books from the worldly man ! With what subdued and yet glowing enthusiasm does he gaze upon the costly front of a thousand embattled volumes ! How ...
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Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers David W. Bartlett Vista completa - 1855 |
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