The Life of Charles SumnerD. Lothrop, 1874 - 504 Seiten |
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... took both babes in her arms , and held them while there . The house in which they were born was in May Street ( now Re- vere Street ) , on the site now occupied by the Bowdoin School build- ing . The family afterwards removed to 20 ...
... took both babes in her arms , and held them while there . The house in which they were born was in May Street ( now Re- vere Street ) , on the site now occupied by the Bowdoin School build- ing . The family afterwards removed to 20 ...
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... took prizes for English composition and Latin poetry , and on graduating received the Franklin medal . He entered Harvard when only fifteen years of age , a strong , finely - developed and elegant- looking boy , and gave himself up to ...
... took prizes for English composition and Latin poetry , and on graduating received the Franklin medal . He entered Harvard when only fifteen years of age , a strong , finely - developed and elegant- looking boy , and gave himself up to ...
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... took from Judge Story and other gentlemen of European fame , gave him at once such access to the highest circles of so- ciety as is rarely enjoyed by so young a man in a foreign land . The following is an extract from one of Judge ...
... took from Judge Story and other gentlemen of European fame , gave him at once such access to the highest circles of so- ciety as is rarely enjoyed by so young a man in a foreign land . The following is an extract from one of Judge ...
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... took it to his great heart ? Three years before his birth , the foreign slave- trade had ended . As it was still clandestinely carried on , the importation of slaves into the United States was , twelve years after , declared to be ...
... took it to his great heart ? Three years before his birth , the foreign slave- trade had ended . As it was still clandestinely carried on , the importation of slaves into the United States was , twelve years after , declared to be ...
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... took deep root in his nature , were already working out their legitimate results . We know that from the year 1834 he had been a reader of Mr. Garrison's Liberator a course of tuition decidedly stimulat- ing to ardent and thoughtful ...
... took deep root in his nature , were already working out their legitimate results . We know that from the year 1834 he had been a reader of Mr. Garrison's Liberator a course of tuition decidedly stimulat- ing to ardent and thoughtful ...
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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...