The Works of Theodore Parker: Historic AmericansAmerican Unitarian association, 1908 |
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... ment the only one which has given us much trouble . The petition was presented on the 12th of February , 1790. It asked for the abolition of the slave trade , and for the emancipation of slaves . A storm followed ; the South was in a ...
... ment the only one which has given us much trouble . The petition was presented on the 12th of February , 1790. It asked for the abolition of the slave trade , and for the emancipation of slaves . A storm followed ; the South was in a ...
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... ment and undeviating sincerity . When troubles came , and the British Government sought to oppress the colonies , Puritan New England began the com- plaint , and Virginia did not tamely submit . A man of details and habits , more than ...
... ment and undeviating sincerity . When troubles came , and the British Government sought to oppress the colonies , Puritan New England began the com- plaint , and Virginia did not tamely submit . A man of details and habits , more than ...
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... ment to be constructed , treaties to be negotiated with foreign powers , the revenue to be settled , the public debt to be paid , the continental paper money to be provided for , or the question disposed of , the limits of the ...
... ment to be constructed , treaties to be negotiated with foreign powers , the revenue to be settled , the public debt to be paid , the continental paper money to be provided for , or the question disposed of , the limits of the ...
Page 71
... stiff , and rather prim , 20 without orna- ment , or any of the little wayside beauties which spring up between the stones even of a military road . He seems to have had as little fondness for literature GEORGE WASHINGTON 71.
... stiff , and rather prim , 20 without orna- ment , or any of the little wayside beauties which spring up between the stones even of a military road . He seems to have had as little fondness for literature GEORGE WASHINGTON 71.
Page 109
... ment , the office of Advocate - General . Adams at once refused it . He was poor : this offered him money . money . He was ambitious : this assured him respect and high con- sideration , and opened the road to all honor . But he was ...
... ment , the office of Advocate - General . Adams at once refused it . He was poor : this offered him money . money . He was ambitious : this assured him respect and high con- sideration , and opened the road to all honor . But he was ...
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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.