Uncle Sam's Emancipation: Earthly Care, a Heavenly Discipline, and Other SketchesNegro History Press, 1858 - 124 pages |
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... began his collegiate studies at Yale College , New Haven . Ten years later , we find him pastor of the church at Litchfield , and rising into fame as a pulpit orator . His six sermons on temper- ance extended his reputation through the ...
... began his collegiate studies at Yale College , New Haven . Ten years later , we find him pastor of the church at Litchfield , and rising into fame as a pulpit orator . His six sermons on temper- ance extended his reputation through the ...
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... began to glow with animation , his simple style became figurative and graphic , and flashes of irony lighted up the dark groundwork of his Puritanical reasoning . Smiles and tears chased each other over the faces of many in the audience ...
... began to glow with animation , his simple style became figurative and graphic , and flashes of irony lighted up the dark groundwork of his Puritanical reasoning . Smiles and tears chased each other over the faces of many in the audience ...
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... began to burn . Many of the students had travelled or taught school in the slave States ; a goodly number were sons of slaveholders , and some were owners of slaves . They had seen slavery , and had facts to relate , many of which made ...
... began to burn . Many of the students had travelled or taught school in the slave States ; a goodly number were sons of slaveholders , and some were owners of slaves . They had seen slavery , and had facts to relate , many of which made ...
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... began to ride about the city of to look up some pretty interesting cottage ( 56 ) where our visions of rural bliss might be realized . EARTHLY CARE, A HEAVENLY DISCIPLINE, 43 1333 A SCHOLAR'S ADVENTURES IN THE COUNTRY, ·
... began to ride about the city of to look up some pretty interesting cottage ( 56 ) where our visions of rural bliss might be realized . EARTHLY CARE, A HEAVENLY DISCIPLINE, 43 1333 A SCHOLAR'S ADVENTURES IN THE COUNTRY, ·
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... began to question us about our carriage - drive and conservatory , and we could with difficulty bring the gentleman down to any understanding of the humble limits of our ex- pectations - merely to dress out the walks and lay out a ...
... began to question us about our carriage - drive and conservatory , and we could with difficulty bring the gentleman down to any understanding of the humble limits of our ex- pectations - merely to dress out the walks and lay out a ...
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Page 55 - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee...
Page 55 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Page 80 - So of the tender, weeping child is made the callous, heartless man ; of the all-believing child, the sneering sceptic ; of the beautiful and modest, the shameless and abandoned ; and this is what the world does for the little one. There was a time when the divine One stood on earth, and little children sought to draw near to him. But harsh human beings stood between him and them, forbidding their approach. Ah, has it not always been so? Do not even we, with our hard and unsubdued feelings, our worldly...
Page 87 - Let — not — your — heart — be — troubled. In — my — Father's — house — are — many — mansions.
Page 99 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
Page 86 - ... she has toiled over the last piece of work which she can procure from the shop, for the man has told her that after this he can furnish no more ; and the little money that is to come from this is already portioned out in her own mind, and after that she has no human prospect of support.
Page 79 - If I had a child," says the precise man, "you should see." He does have a child, and his child tears up his papers, tumbles over his things, and pulls his nose, like all other children, and what has the precise man to say for himself? Nothing — he is like everybody else, "a little child shall lead him !" Poor little children ! they bring and teach us...
Page 81 - ... radiance which might unfold it for paradise? "Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not," is still the voice of the. Son of God, but the cold world still closes around and forbids. When of old...
Page 82 - What a beautiful edition! what superb bindings ! " and then lay it down again. And the master of the house was lounging on a sofa, looking over a late review — for he was a man of leisure, taste, and reading — but, then, as to reading the Bible ! — that forms, we suppose, no part of the pretensions of a man of letters. The Bible — certainly he considered it a very respectable book — a fine specimen of ancient literature — an admirable book of moral precepts; but, then, as to its divine...
Page 81 - Wouldst thou know, 0 parent, what is that faith which unlocks heaven ? Go not to wrangling polemics, or creeds and forms of theology, but draw to thy bosom thy little one, and read in that clear trusting eye the lesson of eternal life. Be only to thy God as thy child is to thee, and all is done ! Blessed shalt thou be indeed, " when a little child shall lead thee !