Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers. by David W. [!] BartlettMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... better clue to char- acter than pages of mere description . may Begging that you will excuse the errors into which I have unintentionally fallen in this book , which was prepared for the people of this country , I am , always ...
... better clue to char- acter than pages of mere description . may Begging that you will excuse the errors into which I have unintentionally fallen in this book , which was prepared for the people of this country , I am , always ...
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... wrong , and the charge that he is before it is an admission that he is right . When Robert Fulton told them steam was better than wind on the water , or than horse - flesh on the land , he was before the age , though 10 MODERN AGITATORS .
... wrong , and the charge that he is before it is an admission that he is right . When Robert Fulton told them steam was better than wind on the water , or than horse - flesh on the land , he was before the age , though 10 MODERN AGITATORS .
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... better . The rain is a great anti - slavery discourse . And I like to have it pour . Nor eloquence is richer to my spirit , or music . That rush from heaven of the big drops - in what mul- titude and succession , and how they sound as ...
... better . The rain is a great anti - slavery discourse . And I like to have it pour . Nor eloquence is richer to my spirit , or music . That rush from heaven of the big drops - in what mul- titude and succession , and how they sound as ...
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... better . Mr. Covey had now left me to my fate . ” After this , Douglas had the courage to resist an- other brutal attack from Covey , and triumphed . He began now to seriously contemplate running away from the bondage so hateful to him ...
... better . Mr. Covey had now left me to my fate . ” After this , Douglas had the courage to resist an- other brutal attack from Covey , and triumphed . He began now to seriously contemplate running away from the bondage so hateful to him ...
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... better way than get right , and speak right on as I feel . I confess it seems utterly impossible that any of these religious bodies should yield an influence to support such a system . I persuade my- self sometimes in my closet that it ...
... better way than get right , and speak right on as I feel . I confess it seems utterly impossible that any of these religious bodies should yield an influence to support such a system . I persuade my- self sometimes in my closet that it ...
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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.