Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 6; Volume 27Jno. R. Thompson, 1858 |
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... soul , or if even having no need for me , the distributors of labour repel me , what am I to do ? Shall I believe myself free while the slavery of hunger is upon me ? Will the right of labouring appear to me a very precious gift when I ...
... soul , or if even having no need for me , the distributors of labour repel me , what am I to do ? Shall I believe myself free while the slavery of hunger is upon me ? Will the right of labouring appear to me a very precious gift when I ...
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... soul and body together . Thus we find it asserted , and upon abundant proof , that when re- lief is given in kind , as in the parish work - house , the nourishment is both of better quality and more abundant than the independent ...
... soul and body together . Thus we find it asserted , and upon abundant proof , that when re- lief is given in kind , as in the parish work - house , the nourishment is both of better quality and more abundant than the independent ...
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... soul of the blessing Which in deepest of wo was my gain , That love , which mine own is possessing , And for which thine hath striven in vain ! II . Thou may'st joy in the splendour around thee , The state which makes gallant thy halls ...
... soul of the blessing Which in deepest of wo was my gain , That love , which mine own is possessing , And for which thine hath striven in vain ! II . Thou may'st joy in the splendour around thee , The state which makes gallant thy halls ...
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... instead of the brilliant posi- tions which he used to improvise , he would strike a few dirge - like notes upon his piano , and pour out his soul in strains as touching and as sad as the instrumen- tal music 1858.1 33.
... instead of the brilliant posi- tions which he used to improvise , he would strike a few dirge - like notes upon his piano , and pour out his soul in strains as touching and as sad as the instrumen- tal music 1858.1 33.
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... soul and measure what he could bear mentally , he who loved her so . Albert took her hand , while she scarce- ly observed the action , so absorbed was she in thought , and pressed it to his lips . " Ah , this little hand , " he said ...
... soul and measure what he could bear mentally , he who loved her so . Albert took her hand , while she scarce- ly observed the action , so absorbed was she in thought , and pressed it to his lips . " Ah , this little hand , " he said ...
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Page 148 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 254 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 344 - The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear; He but perceives what is; while unto me All that has been is visible and clear. We have no title-deeds to house or lands; Owners and occupants of earlier dates From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates.
Page 271 - One by one thy duties wait thee, Let thy whole strength go to each, Let no future dreams elate thee, Learn thou first what these can teach...
Page 331 - Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,
Page 375 - But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage And froze the genial current of the soul.
Page 148 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Page 222 - But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree in which they elucidate the condition of society and the nature of man.
Page 148 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 108 - A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.