Prophet of Liberty: The Life and Times of Wendell Phillips |
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... Church and clergy of the United States , as a whole , constitute a great BROTHERHOOD OF THIEVES , inasmuch as they ... church -what is it ? " he asked . " A synagogue of Satan ! " " a weathercock denoting with exactness the tone and ...
... Church and clergy of the United States , as a whole , constitute a great BROTHERHOOD OF THIEVES , inasmuch as they ... church -what is it ? " he asked . " A synagogue of Satan ! " " a weathercock denoting with exactness the tone and ...
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... Church - for how can we avoid it without growing false to our cause ? " 46 There was a short method of determining the Church's rela- tion to the cause of freedom , added Phillips . " The American Church is not a pigmy , stealing out of ...
... Church - for how can we avoid it without growing false to our cause ? " 46 There was a short method of determining the Church's rela- tion to the cause of freedom , added Phillips . " The American Church is not a pigmy , stealing out of ...
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... Church . A highly fashionable audience attended . Beecher opened the meeting with a few remarks : " When I heard the place of meeting had been , from prudential motives , closed against him , I felt it in my blood and in my bones , that ...
... Church . A highly fashionable audience attended . Beecher opened the meeting with a few remarks : " When I heard the place of meeting had been , from prudential motives , closed against him , I felt it in my blood and in my bones , that ...
Contents
The Revolutionary Tradition | 13 |
A New England Boyhood | 18 |
Harvard Days | 26 |
Copyright | |
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