The Life of Charles SumnerD. Lothrop, 1874 - 504 Seiten |
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... hope in grappling with the bony monster is in an Arm that is stronger than ours . Let us fix our gaze on God , and walk in the light of his counte- nance . If our cause be just , and we know it is , - his omnipotence is pledged to its ...
... hope in grappling with the bony monster is in an Arm that is stronger than ours . Let us fix our gaze on God , and walk in the light of his counte- nance . If our cause be just , and we know it is , - his omnipotence is pledged to its ...
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... hope . And Mr. Sumner pleaded with Daniel Webster to be true to free- dom . " There is , " said he , " 6 a senator of Mas- sachusetts we had hoped to welcome here to - day , whose position is of commanding influence . Let me address him ...
... hope . And Mr. Sumner pleaded with Daniel Webster to be true to free- dom . " There is , " said he , " 6 a senator of Mas- sachusetts we had hoped to welcome here to - day , whose position is of commanding influence . Let me address him ...
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... hope of the country , to the demands of the times . Some words of his , written at a later period , well express his present feelings : " Especially do I invoke the young . They are the natural guardians of liberty . Thus has it been ...
... hope of the country , to the demands of the times . Some words of his , written at a later period , well express his present feelings : " Especially do I invoke the young . They are the natural guardians of liberty . Thus has it been ...
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... hope it may not seem presumptuous in one so humble as myself to adopt his determination , and to avow his confidence . " And so Massachusetts sent a MAN to represent her in the " high places of the field . " The same month Horace Mann ...
... hope it may not seem presumptuous in one so humble as myself to adopt his determination , and to avow his confidence . " And so Massachusetts sent a MAN to represent her in the " high places of the field . " The same month Horace Mann ...
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... hope of obtaining their freedom . The schooner was pursued and brought back to Washington , with her human cargo , and the liberators , Drayton , master , and Sayres , mate . As the latter were taken from the river - side to the jail ...
... hope of obtaining their freedom . The schooner was pursued and brought back to Washington , with her human cargo , and the liberators , Drayton , master , and Sayres , mate . As the latter were taken from the river - side to the jail ...
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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...