If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters, I shall be happy to see a person so favored by the Muses, and to whom nature has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations. I am, with great respect, your obedient, humble servant,... Works for Children and Young Adults: Biographies - Page 12by Langston Hughes, Steven C. Tracy - 2001 - 336 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Theology - 1834 - 410 pages
...imputation of vanity. This, and nothing else, determined me not to give it place in the public prints. If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters,...with great respect, your obedient humble servant. Mr. Sparks states, in a note, that he has not been able to find among Washington's papers the letter... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 580 pages
...imputation of vanity. This, and nothing else, determined me not to give it place in the public prints. If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters,...with great respect, your obedient humble servant. authors, and soon began to compose verses. Meantime the attention of the community was turned to so... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 578 pages
...imputation of vanity. This, and nothing else, determined me not to give it place in the public prints. If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters,...with great respect, your obedient humble servant. authors, and soon began to compose verses. Meantime the attention of the community was turned to so... | |
| Antislavery movements - 1835 - 184 pages
...nothing else, determined me not to give it place in the pubUc prints. Cambridge, WlI, February, 1776. If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters,...respect, your obedient humble servant, GEORGE WASHINGTON. * " Phillis "Wheatley was born in Africa, and brought to Boston in a slave•hip, in the year 1761,... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...imputation of vanity. ' This, and nothing else, determined me not to give it place in the public prints. If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters,...with great respect, your obedient humble servant. — Letter to Phillis Wtteatley [Are African^. , Observe good faith and justice towards all nations,... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 454 pages
...give it a place in the public prints. If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head quarters, I shall be happy to see a person so favored by the...with great respect, your obedient, humble, servant." This showed that, in the opinion of Washington, great talent might exist, as well with persons of dark,... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 160 pages
...imputation of vanity. This, and nothing else, determined me not to give it place in the public prints. If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters,...beneficent in her dispensations. I am, with great respect,your obedient humble servant. — Letter to Phillis IVheatley. [Jin African.] Observe good... | |
| British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society - Antislavery movements - 1841 - 308 pages
...imputation of vanity. This, and nothing else, determined me not to give it place in the public prints. " If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters,...your obedient humble servant, GEORGE WASHINGTON." We have evidence of the weakness of this feeling, during the early periods of our history, in the testimony... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - Slavery - 1843 - 598 pages
...come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters, I shall be happv to see a person so favored by the M uses, and to whom nature has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations. I am, will) great ii!spect,y our obedient humble servant. — Letter to Pliillis Wluallcy. [An African.]... | |
| Slavery - 1843 - 404 pages
...imputation of vanity. This, and nothing else, determhiid me not to give it place in the public prints. If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters, I shall be happv to see a person so favored by the Muses, and to whom nature has been so liberal and beneficent... | |
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