Parables for School and Home ...Longmans, Green & Company, 1897 - 214 páginas |
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... he had grown to be a man . He might have said to his father , " I didn't touch the tree , " or , " I saw one of your black slaves cut it with his axe " ; but he could not be so false or so mean as that ; we hope no child 3.
... he had grown to be a man . He might have said to his father , " I didn't touch the tree , " or , " I saw one of your black slaves cut it with his axe " ; but he could not be so false or so mean as that ; we hope no child 3.
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... slaves their freedom . When the Revolution was over , and the colonies were no longer under British rule , the same ... slaves and had the smallest number of freemen , said they would not come into the Union if their slaves were not ...
... slaves their freedom . When the Revolution was over , and the colonies were no longer under British rule , the same ... slaves and had the smallest number of freemen , said they would not come into the Union if their slaves were not ...
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... slave trade to go on for twenty years . But again they were ashamed to mention slave or slave trade in the Constitution ; so instead of slaves they said " such persons , " and instead of slave trade they said " migration or impor ...
... slave trade to go on for twenty years . But again they were ashamed to mention slave or slave trade in the Constitution ; so instead of slaves they said " such persons , " and instead of slave trade they said " migration or impor ...
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Wendell Phillips Garrison. that slavery has been abolished , we may call it by its right name , and nobody cares . What we call a silver dollar is really only a fifty - cent piece . The United States Government will , it is true ...
Wendell Phillips Garrison. that slavery has been abolished , we may call it by its right name , and nobody cares . What we call a silver dollar is really only a fifty - cent piece . The United States Government will , it is true ...
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... slaves . The traders in that country would make war on peaceful villages , set them on fire , kill all who resisted , and drive the rest down to the sea , where the American slave - ships were waiting for them . Then the poor creatures ...
... slaves . The traders in that country would make war on peaceful villages , set them on fire , kill all who resisted , and drive the rest down to the sea , where the American slave - ships were waiting for them . Then the poor creatures ...
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Página 184 - Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are Born. Every Morn and every Night Some are Born to Sweet Delight. Some are Born to Sweet Delight, Some are Born to Endless Night. We are led to Believe a Lie When we see not Thro...
Página 153 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Página 177 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read...
Página 121 - There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! POEMS ON SLAVERY.
Página 177 - ... whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Página 114 - d devour it all; Which, when the stall-man did espy, Soon to the boy I heard him call, "You Sir, you never buy a book, Therefore in one you shall not look.
Página 3 - WOODMAN, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand — Thy axe shall harm it not! That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down?
Página 87 - Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Página 97 - The woman's cause is man's : they rise or sink Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free : For she that out of Lethe scales with man The shining steps of Nature, shares with man His nights, his days, moves with him to one goal...
Página 141 - For I remember stopping by the way To watch a Potter thumping his wet Clay: And with its all-obliterated Tongue It murmur'd — "Gently, Brother, gently, pray!