Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons ...Rufus Leighton, 1859 - Sermons, American |
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Page 12
... poor enough . You know it if you try to read such as are in print . I know it better than you . But I am not a going to speak honeyed words and prophesy smooth things in times like these , and say , " Peace ! Peace ! when there is no ...
... poor enough . You know it if you try to read such as are in print . I know it better than you . But I am not a going to speak honeyed words and prophesy smooth things in times like these , and say , " Peace ! Peace ! when there is no ...
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... poor Pilgrims whose wearied feet first found repose in this great wilder- ness of woods , not broken then . Each year , their children love to gather on the spot made famous now , and bring to mind the ancient deed ; to honor it with ...
... poor Pilgrims whose wearied feet first found repose in this great wilder- ness of woods , not broken then . Each year , their children love to gather on the spot made famous now , and bring to mind the ancient deed ; to honor it with ...
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... poor wretch felt a torture at his iron heart which it was piteous to behold . His soul wrought within him like the tossings of the tropic sea about his ship , deep fraught with hu- man wretchedness . He illustrated the torments of that ...
... poor wretch felt a torture at his iron heart which it was piteous to behold . His soul wrought within him like the tossings of the tropic sea about his ship , deep fraught with hu- man wretchedness . He illustrated the torments of that ...
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... Poor and in chains , the gov- ernment of the nation against him , he sent round to the churches his petition for their prayers ; - the churches of commerce , they gave him their curse : he asked of us the sacrament of freedom , in the ...
... Poor and in chains , the gov- ernment of the nation against him , he sent round to the churches his petition for their prayers ; - the churches of commerce , they gave him their curse : he asked of us the sacrament of freedom , in the ...
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... would turn out so , for such an errand deserved such an end . " Poor men of Georgia ! they knew the Boston of 1765 , not of 1850 ; - the town of the Stamp Act , ruled by Select Men ; not the city of the 54 THE BOSTON KIDNAPPING .
... would turn out so , for such an errand deserved such an end . " Poor men of Georgia ! they knew the Boston of 1765 , not of 1850 ; - the town of the Stamp Act , ruled by Select Men ; not the city of the 54 THE BOSTON KIDNAPPING .
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