National Sermons: Sermons, Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Its War: from the Passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill to the Election of President Grant |
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... never surpassed in later controversies . The history of the Province of Massachu- setts Bay , even in the days of Governor Winthrop , dis- closes this furious pulpit war upon questions of civil and social import . But with this natural ...
... never surpassed in later controversies . The history of the Province of Massachu- setts Bay , even in the days of Governor Winthrop , dis- closes this furious pulpit war upon questions of civil and social import . But with this natural ...
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... never extirpates its cause when suppressing a rebel- lion . Ireland . Sepoys . The United States devoted to Freedom . Her struggle for Democracy against monarchical ideas . Difficulty of European peoples to under- stand this struggle ...
... never extirpates its cause when suppressing a rebel- lion . Ireland . Sepoys . The United States devoted to Freedom . Her struggle for Democracy against monarchical ideas . Difficulty of European peoples to under- stand this struggle ...
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... never approve a practice which the Providence of God is clearly removing to make way for the full triumph of the Gospel of Christ . A Book of such vastness of aim and expression , bound indissolubly to every attribute of God , can never ...
... never approve a practice which the Providence of God is clearly removing to make way for the full triumph of the Gospel of Christ . A Book of such vastness of aim and expression , bound indissolubly to every attribute of God , can never ...
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... Never should our ear feel the everlasting burning of that cry of despair which bursts from the captured fugitive as our clutch fas- tens upon his body and his soul . Never should our hearts be rived with the consciousness that we have ...
... Never should our ear feel the everlasting burning of that cry of despair which bursts from the captured fugitive as our clutch fas- tens upon his body and his soul . Never should our hearts be rived with the consciousness that we have ...
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... never could have passed the First Congress passed the Third . A law which would have been pronounced unconstitutional by the found- ers of the Constitution triumphed under the very eyes of those founders . And the hand of Washington ...
... never could have passed the First Congress passed the Third . A law which would have been pronounced unconstitutional by the found- ers of the Constitution triumphed under the very eyes of those founders . And the hand of Washington ...
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Page 577 - And there was mounting in hot haste ; the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 256 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Page 104 - I shall see him, but not now : I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 143 - So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 364 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 638 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 340 - I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will.
Page 428 - For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment ; 'but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Page 356 - Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Page 59 - And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him. they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. 5. And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some and killing some.