American Slavery: a reprint of an article on “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” of which a portion was inserted in the 206th number of the “Edinburgh Review”; and of Mr. Sumner's Speech of the 19th and 20th of May, 1856. With a notice of the events which followed. [By Nassau William Senior.]Longman & Company, 1856 - 164 pages |
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... English lan- guage , the word in which abhorrence and contempt are concentrated , is miscreant . That is to say , a person whose religious belief differs from that of the speaker . When such was the sentence which each sect passed on ...
... English lan- guage , the word in which abhorrence and contempt are concentrated , is miscreant . That is to say , a person whose religious belief differs from that of the speaker . When such was the sentence which each sect passed on ...
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... English and the Dutch followed in this respect , as in her other colonial follies and enormities , the example of Spain . They were at that time the wisest and the most religious nations of the world . One of them had just conquered her ...
... English and the Dutch followed in this respect , as in her other colonial follies and enormities , the example of Spain . They were at that time the wisest and the most religious nations of the world . One of them had just conquered her ...
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... English one ; or there must be in races enriched by negro blood a wonderful affinity for refinement . He naturally rises to be the most useful servant in the factory to which his owner , Harris , has hired him out . He invents machinery ...
... English one ; or there must be in races enriched by negro blood a wonderful affinity for refinement . He naturally rises to be the most useful servant in the factory to which his owner , Harris , has hired him out . He invents machinery ...
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... English and American law as to literary property . Each country refuses copyright to the citizens of the other . The necessary consequence is , that an English work which has acquired celebrity enough to be reprinted in America ...
... English and American law as to literary property . Each country refuses copyright to the citizens of the other . The necessary consequence is , that an English work which has acquired celebrity enough to be reprinted in America ...
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United States. 73 Mr. Sumner's speech will be made more intelligible to an English reader by the following extract from a sermon preached by the Rev. Dudley Tyng in Phila- delphia , on the 29th June , 1856 : - " On the 30th of May , 1854 ...
United States. 73 Mr. Sumner's speech will be made more intelligible to an English reader by the following extract from a sermon preached by the Rev. Dudley Tyng in Phila- delphia , on the 29th June , 1856 : - " On the 30th of May , 1854 ...
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