The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale, with Northern CommentsTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 275 pages |
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... keep up our confidence in inspiration notwithstanding this epistle , especially as it is explained to us by some at the North who know most of Southern slavery , our inbred hatred of which , it is insisted by some of our best scholars ...
... keep up our confidence in inspiration notwithstanding this epistle , especially as it is explained to us by some at the North who know most of Southern slavery , our inbred hatred of which , it is insisted by some of our best scholars ...
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... keep those little prisoners for his selfish gratification . Come , be a practical emancipationist to the extent of your ability ; set the South an example ; break every yoke . " " They are better off with me , " said I ; " the hawks or ...
... keep those little prisoners for his selfish gratification . Come , be a practical emancipationist to the extent of your ability ; set the South an example ; break every yoke . " " They are better off with me , " said I ; " the hawks or ...
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... inclined , at one time , to take him home with me , and to keep him as a companion in my walks . But he had a collar with his own name , Bruno , upon it , and the name I of his owner . The question of right occurred 38 THE SABLE CLOUD .
... inclined , at one time , to take him home with me , and to keep him as a companion in my walks . But he had a collar with his own name , Bruno , upon it , and the name I of his owner . The question of right occurred 38 THE SABLE CLOUD .
Page 41
... is Barbarism . It consists in holding men to compulsory servitude . The human heart is avaricious ; it gets all it can , and keeps all it gets . Give it complete power over a human being , and there are no limits to THE SABLE CLOUD . 41.
... is Barbarism . It consists in holding men to compulsory servitude . The human heart is avaricious ; it gets all it can , and keeps all it gets . Give it complete power over a human being , and there are no limits to THE SABLE CLOUD . 41.
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... keeping my hands firmly clenched , and my thumbs laid flat and pressed down over the knuckles of my forefingers . This , I am aware , gives the thumbs a flattened look . One of our principal pro - slavery students delights to laugh at ...
... keeping my hands firmly clenched , and my thumbs laid flat and pressed down over the knuckles of my forefingers . This , I am aware , gives the thumbs a flattened look . One of our principal pro - slavery students delights to laugh at ...
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Page 165 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over...
Page 157 - For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Page 220 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Page 206 - With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.
Page 169 - God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth.
Page 94 - For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 214 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God : 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.
Page 91 - Oh, may I love like thee, In all thy footsteps tread; Thou hatest all iniquity, But nothing thou hast made. "Oh, may I learn the art, With meekness to reprove; To hate the sin with all my heart, But still the sinner love.
Page 159 - I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free...
Page 220 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.