The Works of Theodore Parker: Historic AmericansAmerican Unitarian association, 1908 |
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Page 15
... freedom are de- graded into perpetual bondage ; " asks Congress " that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you for discouraging every species of traffic in the per- sons of our fellow - men . " This petition was the ...
... freedom are de- graded into perpetual bondage ; " asks Congress " that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you for discouraging every species of traffic in the per- sons of our fellow - men . " This petition was the ...
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... freedom to each individual , and social unity to all . Yet his plan for the Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania did not work well ; 11 nor would his scheme that the Federal officers should serve without salary 12 have proved to be ...
... freedom to each individual , and social unity to all . Yet his plan for the Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania did not work well ; 11 nor would his scheme that the Federal officers should serve without salary 12 have proved to be ...
Page 66
... freedom of individuals , were also to be sacredly pre- served . How could the nation found a firm central power , which was indispensable , and yet keep intact the local self - government which each state required , and to which it had ...
... freedom of individuals , were also to be sacredly pre- served . How could the nation found a firm central power , which was indispensable , and yet keep intact the local self - government which each state required , and to which it had ...
Page 89
... freedom and empire , on protecting the rights of human nature , and establish- ing an asylum for the poor and oppressed of all na- tions and religions . " He sought to promote the emancipation of all the slaves in Virginia . That could ...
... freedom and empire , on protecting the rights of human nature , and establish- ing an asylum for the poor and oppressed of all na- tions and religions . " He sought to promote the emancipation of all the slaves in Virginia . That could ...
Page 91
... pursuit . I make no doubt with inward delight . You will say , " He did little for the freedom of the slaves . " He did more than all Presidents , with the 66 exception of Jefferson and Madison . Think of any GEORGE WASHINGTON 91.
... pursuit . I make no doubt with inward delight . You will say , " He did little for the freedom of the slaves . " He did more than all Presidents , with the 66 exception of Jefferson and Madison . Think of any GEORGE WASHINGTON 91.
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Page 382 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 199 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Page 372 - Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope and heaven! Let not the land once proud of him Insult him now, Nor brand with deeper shame his dim, Dishonored brow.
Page 39 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Page 334 - ... by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age. We hope to excite a feeling of respectability, and a sense of character, by enlarging the capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion,...
Page 126 - But my country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Page 106 - The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Page 396 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country, then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Page 183 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation. We must turn all our...
Page 221 - In every clime, and travel where we might, That we were born her children. Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.