The Life of Charles Sumner: With Choice Specimens of His Eloquence, a Delineation of His Oratorial Character, and His Great Speech on KansasH. Dayton, 1858 - 329 páginas |
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... Wrong , JUSTICE , returned to the earth from her long exile in the skies , with mighty scales for Nations as for men , shall rear her serene and majestic front ; and by her side , greatest of all , CHARITY , sublime in meekness , hoping ...
... Wrong , JUSTICE , returned to the earth from her long exile in the skies , with mighty scales for Nations as for men , shall rear her serene and majestic front ; and by her side , greatest of all , CHARITY , sublime in meekness , hoping ...
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... wrong of slavery . The Judges of our courts have declared it to be contrary to the law of na- ture , finding its support only in the positive enact- ments of men . Its horrors who can tell ? Lan- guage fails in the vain effort to depict ...
... wrong of slavery . The Judges of our courts have declared it to be contrary to the law of na- ture , finding its support only in the positive enact- ments of men . Its horrors who can tell ? Lan- guage fails in the vain effort to depict ...
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... wrong are retreating to their kindred darkness . The sun of our moral universe is entering a new ecliptic , no longer deformed by those images of animal rage , Cancer , Taurus , Leo , Sagittarius , but beaming with mild radiance of ...
... wrong are retreating to their kindred darkness . The sun of our moral universe is entering a new ecliptic , no longer deformed by those images of animal rage , Cancer , Taurus , Leo , Sagittarius , but beaming with mild radiance of ...
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... wrong . " Let us , then , pledge ourselves , in ' the most sol emn form , by united exertions , at least to restrain this destructive influence within its original con- stitutional bounds . Let us , at all hazards , prevent the ...
... wrong . " Let us , then , pledge ourselves , in ' the most sol emn form , by united exertions , at least to restrain this destructive influence within its original con- stitutional bounds . Let us , at all hazards , prevent the ...
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... wrong and false- hood , had risen in their might , and , after a severe contest with the hireling troops , destroyed the Bas- tile . The unhappy monarch , turning upon his couch , said , ' It is an insurrection . ' ' No , Sire , ' was ...
... wrong and false- hood , had risen in their might , and , after a severe contest with the hireling troops , destroyed the Bas- tile . The unhappy monarch , turning upon his couch , said , ' It is an insurrection . ' ' No , Sire , ' was ...
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