The Life of Charles SumnerD. Lothrop, 1874 - 504 Seiten |
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... course to either pole shall run , Or round the zodiac travel with the sun ; No narrow treaty sell the boundless sea , Which Nature's charter to the world made free ; When all the compact which this globe shall bind Shall be the mutual ...
... course to either pole shall run , Or round the zodiac travel with the sun ; No narrow treaty sell the boundless sea , Which Nature's charter to the world made free ; When all the compact which this globe shall bind Shall be the mutual ...
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... course for studies more con- genial to his taste . He also read far into the night , and when his less studious companions returned late from Boston , where they had been on social visits or to public entertainments , they always saw ...
... course for studies more con- genial to his taste . He also read far into the night , and when his less studious companions returned late from Boston , where they had been on social visits or to public entertainments , they always saw ...
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... course drank in with avidity the opinions of these masters in the law ; his special object being at this time to acquire a knowledge of the practice of the law , which was , as we have seen , much less attractive to him than the study ...
... course drank in with avidity the opinions of these masters in the law ; his special object being at this time to acquire a knowledge of the practice of the law , which was , as we have seen , much less attractive to him than the study ...
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... course of study and travel he had laid out for himself . A lawyer , who was a student of Sumner's at this time , speaks of him as an admirable teacher , kind and fascinating in his manner , and possessed of a natural dignity , which had ...
... course of study and travel he had laid out for himself . A lawyer , who was a student of Sumner's at this time , speaks of him as an admirable teacher , kind and fascinating in his manner , and possessed of a natural dignity , which had ...
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... course there were individual exceptions to the contrary . This state of things affected but did not dishearten me . I determined , at every hazard , to lift up the standard of emancipation in the eyes of the nation , within sight of ...
... course there were individual exceptions to the contrary . This state of things affected but did not dishearten me . I determined , at every hazard , to lift up the standard of emancipation in the eyes of the nation , within sight of ...
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Seite 361 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of thy life: In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even!
Seite 475 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Seite 291 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Seite 147 - I will drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall, neither night nor day, Hang upon his pent-house lid ; He shall live a man forbid :* Weary sev'n-nights, nine times nine, , Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine :* Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-toss'd.
Seite 103 - There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray ; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way...
Seite 12 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Seite 60 - During my recent tour for the purpose of exciting the minds of the people by a series of discourses on the subject of slavery, every place that I visited gave fresh evidence of the fact that a greater revolution in public sentiment was to be effected in the free States — and particularly in New England — than at the South.
Seite 475 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Seite 225 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Seite 307 - I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say, I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I...