Uncle Sam's Emancipation: Earthly Care, a Heavenly Discipline, and Other SketchesNegro History Press, 1858 - 124 pages |
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... never been seriously attacked . This exemption from the ordinary lot of reformers is owing not only to their consistent disinterestedness , ' but to a cer- tain Yankee prudence , which prevents their ad- vancing without being sure of ...
... never been seriously attacked . This exemption from the ordinary lot of reformers is owing not only to their consistent disinterestedness , ' but to a cer- tain Yankee prudence , which prevents their ad- vancing without being sure of ...
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... never forgotten it . I forget now what reprehensible intrigue our rulers were busy in at the time , but the doctor , after praying for the adoption of various useful measures , alluded to their conduct in the follow- ing terms : " And ...
... never forgotten it . I forget now what reprehensible intrigue our rulers were busy in at the time , but the doctor , after praying for the adoption of various useful measures , alluded to their conduct in the follow- ing terms : " And ...
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... never failed to justify his claim to the title of " the old man eloquent . " Harriet Beecher was born in Litchfield , about the year 1812. After the removal of the family to Boston , she enjoyed the best educational ad- vantages of that ...
... never failed to justify his claim to the title of " the old man eloquent . " Harriet Beecher was born in Litchfield , about the year 1812. After the removal of the family to Boston , she enjoyed the best educational ad- vantages of that ...
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... Never did a literary institution start under finer ber and reputation of the professors had drawn together several hundred students from all parts of the United States ; not sickly cellar - plants of boys sent Ly wealthy parents , but ...
... Never did a literary institution start under finer ber and reputation of the professors had drawn together several hundred students from all parts of the United States ; not sickly cellar - plants of boys sent Ly wealthy parents , but ...
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... never interfered with other gentlemen's matters , while sundry of his brethren in office looked un- utterable things out of the corners of their eyes . " There is some cursed plot hatched up among you 82 UNCLE SAM'S EMANCIPATION .
... never interfered with other gentlemen's matters , while sundry of his brethren in office looked un- utterable things out of the corners of their eyes . " There is some cursed plot hatched up among you 82 UNCLE SAM'S EMANCIPATION .
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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 !