The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's PortfolioJ. B. Tolman, 1846 - 208 páginas |
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... better world beyond , -whose prospect seemed to be one dark , cold , starless , and endless night , -whose children were thin with hunger and pale with suffering , -and all of whose wretchedness was the result ( and the natural result ) ...
... better world beyond , -whose prospect seemed to be one dark , cold , starless , and endless night , -whose children were thin with hunger and pale with suffering , -and all of whose wretchedness was the result ( and the natural result ) ...
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... better than man , the avenues to the human heart : and this knowledge has been of incalculable value to our cause . She embraced the Washingtonian faith as soon as it was presented to her . She had an intuitive assurance that it was the ...
... better than man , the avenues to the human heart : and this knowledge has been of incalculable value to our cause . She embraced the Washingtonian faith as soon as it was presented to her . She had an intuitive assurance that it was the ...
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... better life which is to come . " We curse his stars , and furnish him with no sun . We block up the path he is now travelling , and leave him , without chart or compass , to reach the promised haven as best he may . This is the ...
... better life which is to come . " We curse his stars , and furnish him with no sun . We block up the path he is now travelling , and leave him , without chart or compass , to reach the promised haven as best he may . This is the ...
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... Better tear all your written constitutions to shreds and let them be blown by the willing wind to oblivion , rather than enslave a single human being for one instant . Fiat justitia ruat cœlum . Let there be justice though the heaven ...
... Better tear all your written constitutions to shreds and let them be blown by the willing wind to oblivion , rather than enslave a single human being for one instant . Fiat justitia ruat cœlum . Let there be justice though the heaven ...
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... better all Pennsylvania should have been burned to charcoal than that the poor fugitives in Dismal Swamp should have been burned out of their retreat . But who gets up ward , and county , and district committees , to raise funds to feed ...
... better all Pennsylvania should have been burned to charcoal than that the poor fugitives in Dismal Swamp should have been burned out of their retreat . But who gets up ward , and county , and district committees , to raise funds to feed ...
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Anti-Slavery beauty Bible billet read blessed breath bright brother Caleb Cushing Capernaum Caroline Caroline cross chattel slavery child Christian church clergy cloud cloud sulphurous common countenance dear death Dismal Swamp divine dreadful dream earth face faith father fear feel flowers gallows gibbet hand hanging happy head heart heaven HENRY CLAPP Herald of Freedom holy hope human intemperance Jack Ketch Jesus Christ labor light live look Mary medal mind moral morning mother nature never night noble o'er old oaken bucket peace poor praise prayer priest priesthood principles reform religion round seems sister slave slavery smile society solemn Somersworth song sorrow and woe soul speak spirit stars sweet tears thee thine things THOMAS HOOD thou thought truth unto voice Washingtonian Washingtonian movement words Work-work-work young
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Página 147 - Work - work work Till the brain begins to swim! Work - work - work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam , and gusset , and band , Band , and gusset , and seam , Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out , But human creatures
Página 148 - Work — work — work ! In the dull December light; And work — work — work! When the weather is warm and bright; While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring.
Página 70 - Old Kaspar took it from the boy Who stood expectant by: And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh "'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he, "Who fell in the great victory.
Página 155 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Página 65 - I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear, they sang to my eye.
Página 4 - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure ; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing! And quick to the white-pebbled...
Página 65 - The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky. Full of light and of deity; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird; Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
Página 147 - O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is .not linen you're wearing out. But human creatures' lives ! Stitch, stitch, stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt. Sewing at once, with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt...
Página 33 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Página 59 - And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane, most catholic and solemn, Which God hath planned ; To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply ; Its choir the winds and waves, its organ thunder, Its dome the sky.