Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1855 - Sermons, American |
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... my fellow - citizens appointed me " Min- ister at large for Fugitive Slaves : " I could not decline the honorable office at such a time ; nay , I sought its duties well knowing their peril . How often must I protect vi PREFACE .
... my fellow - citizens appointed me " Min- ister at large for Fugitive Slaves : " I could not decline the honorable office at such a time ; nay , I sought its duties well knowing their peril . How often must I protect vi PREFACE .
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... my fellow - citizens appointed me " Min- ister at large for Fugitive Slaves : " I could not decline the honorable office at such a time ; nay , I sought its duties well knowing their peril . How often must I protect vi PREFACE .
... my fellow - citizens appointed me " Min- ister at large for Fugitive Slaves : " I could not decline the honorable office at such a time ; nay , I sought its duties well knowing their peril . How often must I protect vi PREFACE .
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Theodore Parker. well knowing their peril . How often must I protect my own parishioners from the clutch of men seeking to enslave them ! What scorn has been visited on me in consequence ! Four years ago , a wealthy and prominent ...
Theodore Parker. well knowing their peril . How often must I protect my own parishioners from the clutch of men seeking to enslave them ! What scorn has been visited on me in consequence ! Four years ago , a wealthy and prominent ...
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... protection , — and voluntarily gave him up to bondage without end ; did it with her eyes wide open ; did it on pur- pose ; did it in notorious violation of her own law , in consciousness of the sin ; did it after " fasting and prayer ...
... protection , — and voluntarily gave him up to bondage without end ; did it with her eyes wide open ; did it on pur- pose ; did it in notorious violation of her own law , in consciousness of the sin ; did it after " fasting and prayer ...
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... protecting the eight thousand nine hundred and seventy - five persons thus left at the mercy of any kidnapper ; that officers should have been appointed , at the public cost , to defend these helpless men , and a law passed , punishing ...
... protecting the eight thousand nine hundred and seventy - five persons thus left at the mercy of any kidnapper ; that officers should have been appointed , at the public cost , to defend these helpless men , and a law passed , punishing ...
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Page 420 - O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
Page 292 - No further 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 37 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 280 - 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 230 - 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, against immorality and crime.
Page 420 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing...
Page 250 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 292 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 249 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 283 - But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.