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Page 10
... give evidence of being sympathetic and kind - hearted and loving . 2. The breeding of discontent among the bondmen of our land is not the way to help them . Whatever gloomy thoughts the slave's own mind may brood , we are not to carry ...
... give evidence of being sympathetic and kind - hearted and loving . 2. The breeding of discontent among the bondmen of our land is not the way to help them . Whatever gloomy thoughts the slave's own mind may brood , we are not to carry ...
Page 16
... give his own life rather than abide in servitude , but he has no right to lead a whole people to slaughter , without the strongest probabilities of success . If nations were all armed men , it would be differ- ent . Soldiers can die ...
... give his own life rather than abide in servitude , but he has no right to lead a whole people to slaughter , without the strongest probabilities of success . If nations were all armed men , it would be differ- ent . Soldiers can die ...
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... give it an autumn without a winter . And when such a public sentiment fills the North , founded upon religion , and filled with fearless love to both the bond and the free , it will work all over the continent , and nothing can be hid ...
... give it an autumn without a winter . And when such a public sentiment fills the North , founded upon religion , and filled with fearless love to both the bond and the free , it will work all over the continent , and nothing can be hid ...
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... give to the slave himself a higher moral status . I lay it down as an axiom , that whatever gives more manhood to the slave slackens the bonds that bind him , and that whatever lowers him in the scale of manhood tightens those bonds ...
... give to the slave himself a higher moral status . I lay it down as an axiom , that whatever gives more manhood to the slave slackens the bonds that bind him , and that whatever lowers him in the scale of manhood tightens those bonds ...
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... give thanks for national mercies . I need not remind you of the year that is closing . Who knew , when January set her cold , calm face toward the future , that she was the herald of such a summer ? When was there ever a year so fertile ...
... give thanks for national mercies . I need not remind you of the year that is closing . Who knew , when January set her cold , calm face toward the future , that she was the herald of such a summer ? When was there ever a year so fertile ...
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Page 420 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying ; Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues; for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Page 57 - And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
Page 223 - Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
Page 445 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 87 - And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show to you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Page 368 - When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. 26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him : and he was as one dead ; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
Page 178 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 86 - Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
Page 444 - Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
Page 444 - ... the merchandise of gold and silver, and precious stones and of pearls, and fine linen and purple, and silk and scarlet, and all thyine wood and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble...