Speeches, Lectures, and LettersLee and Shepard, 1891 - 476 páginas |
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... KOSSUTH ( 1851 ) . 40 • CRISPUS ATTUCKS ( 1858 ) 69 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ( 1855 ) . 77 SUFFRAGE FOR WOMAN ( 1861 ) 110 WOMAN'S RIGHTS AND WOMAN'S DUTIES ( 1866 ) 128 THE EIGHT - HOUR MOVEMENT ( 1865 ) . 139 THE CHINESE ( 1870 ) 145 THE ...
... KOSSUTH ( 1851 ) . 40 • CRISPUS ATTUCKS ( 1858 ) 69 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ( 1855 ) . 77 SUFFRAGE FOR WOMAN ( 1861 ) 110 WOMAN'S RIGHTS AND WOMAN'S DUTIES ( 1866 ) 128 THE EIGHT - HOUR MOVEMENT ( 1865 ) . 139 THE CHINESE ( 1870 ) 145 THE ...
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... Kossuth . Would the world , would humanity , would even Mr. Webster , have said Amen to such a plea from his mouth ? There may be times when States should say with the great Roman , " It is necessary to go ; it is not necessary to live ...
... Kossuth . Would the world , would humanity , would even Mr. Webster , have said Amen to such a plea from his mouth ? There may be times when States should say with the great Roman , " It is necessary to go ; it is not necessary to live ...
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... has scooped the valley of the Mississippi as the cradle of free States , and poured Niagara as the anthem of free men . [ Loud cheers . ] KOSSUTH . Speech delivered at the Antislavery Bazaar , Saturday WELCOME TO GEORGE THOMPSON . 39.
... has scooped the valley of the Mississippi as the cradle of free States , and poured Niagara as the anthem of free men . [ Loud cheers . ] KOSSUTH . Speech delivered at the Antislavery Bazaar , Saturday WELCOME TO GEORGE THOMPSON . 39.
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Wendell Phillips. KOSSUTH . Speech delivered at the Antislavery Bazaar , Saturday evening , December 27 , 1851 . I HAVE been requested to consider this evening , the position which Kossuth occupies in relation to the Antislavery cause in ...
Wendell Phillips. KOSSUTH . Speech delivered at the Antislavery Bazaar , Saturday evening , December 27 , 1851 . I HAVE been requested to consider this evening , the position which Kossuth occupies in relation to the Antislavery cause in ...
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... of the reform spirit of the age , as one whose boundless capacity , purity of purpose , and the universality of whose sympathies , almost merited that we should take the statue of Washington from its pedestal , and replace it KOSSUTH . 41.
... of the reform spirit of the age , as one whose boundless capacity , purity of purpose , and the universality of whose sympathies , almost merited that we should take the statue of Washington from its pedestal , and replace it KOSSUTH . 41.
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Abolitionists agitation American Antislavery Applause ballot ballot-box Bible blood Boston brains capital punishment century Cheers Christianity Church civilization claim colored Commonwealth Crosby dared elements eloquence England Europe Faneuil Hall fathers gallows gentlemen give hand Harriet Martineau heart human hundred Hungary idea institutions intellect Ireland Irish justice Kossuth labor land legislature liberty lifted lips live look Lord Brougham Louis Kossuth Magyar Massachusetts means ment millions moral movement nation never O'Connell obey Phillips political principles public opinion pulpit punishment Puritan question race religion remember Rufus Choate Saint Paul scholar side slave slavery society soul speak speech stand statute statute-book streets tell Temperance Temperance movement Theodore Parker thing thought thousand tion to-day truth universal suffrage vote wealth WENDELL PHILLIPS whole woman women word
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Página 212 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 321 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Página 407 - May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I prove false to those teachings.
Página 92 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Página 11 - Forgive me this my virtue; For in the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, Yea, curb* and woo, for leave to do him good.
Página 343 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Página 9 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 207 - Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand years before.
Página 206 - I charge you before God, and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal any thing to you by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it, as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded, I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Página 340 - Her haughty Schools Shall blush ; and may not we with sorrow say, A few strong instincts and a few plain rules Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought...