Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American ReformersMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855 - 396 páginas |
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... heart full of earnest aspirations for a reformed world , ) it was a second home to me . That sad , beautiful summer you nor I shall ever forget , nor will the dear ones of the " cottage " who watched me so tenderly when my brow burned ...
... heart full of earnest aspirations for a reformed world , ) it was a second home to me . That sad , beautiful summer you nor I shall ever forget , nor will the dear ones of the " cottage " who watched me so tenderly when my brow burned ...
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... heart aches to say it ! -here we need reformers as well as you ; here the sorrowful plaint of the bondman , and the wail of the drunk- ard's wife are heard . And so remembering your word - pic- tures of English agitators , I send you a ...
... heart aches to say it ! -here we need reformers as well as you ; here the sorrowful plaint of the bondman , and the wail of the drunk- ard's wife are heard . And so remembering your word - pic- tures of English agitators , I send you a ...
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... heart was sensitive , his fancy delicate , his love without bounds , and when insult was aimed at him , or when attempts were made to wrong him , he was silent . But when insult was aimed at the cause he loved so well , when his brother ...
... heart was sensitive , his fancy delicate , his love without bounds , and when insult was aimed at him , or when attempts were made to wrong him , he was silent . But when insult was aimed at the cause he loved so well , when his brother ...
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... heart . His parentage was excellent , and as he was a lineal descendant of John Rogers , the martyr , he had no cause to be ashamed of the blood which coursed through his veins . In 1811 , he entered Dartmouth College , but through ill ...
... heart . His parentage was excellent , and as he was a lineal descendant of John Rogers , the martyr , he had no cause to be ashamed of the blood which coursed through his veins . In 1811 , he entered Dartmouth College , but through ill ...
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... heart for everything good and gentle , sublime or beautiful . At last the anti - slavery agitation arose , and being a true man , and in tune with nature , he at once re- ceived into his great heart God's truth , and became . an ...
... heart for everything good and gentle , sublime or beautiful . At last the anti - slavery agitation arose , and being a true man , and in tune with nature , he at once re- ceived into his great heart God's truth , and became . an ...
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Página 180 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 41 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 249 - Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and child-birth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot, And she heard the little...
Página 103 - I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Página 43 - ... liberty and equality hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.
Página 245 - Alone unto our Father's will One thought hath reconciled : That He whose love exceedeth ours Hath taken home his child. Fold her, O Father ! in thine arms. And let her henceforth be A messenger of love between Our human hearts and thee.
Página 247 - He spoke of the grass and flowers and trees, Of the singing birds and the humming bees; Then talked of the haying, and wondered whether The cloud in the west would bring foul weather. And Maud forgot her...
Página 43 - To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy— a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace...
Página 56 - THERE'S a good time coming, boys, A good time coming : We may not live to see the day, But earth shall glisten in the ray Of the good time coming. Cannon balls may aid the truth, But thought's a weapon stronger ; We'll win our battle by its aid ; Wait a little longer.
Página 245 - Father ! in thine arms, And let her henceforth be A messenger of love between Our human hearts and Thee. Still let her mild rebuking stand Between us and the wrong, And her dear memory serve to make Our faith in Goodness strong. And grant that she who, trembling, here Distrusted all her powers, May welcome to her holier home The well beloved of ours.