Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Band 1Phillips, Sampson,, 1854 - 432 Seiten |
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Seite xii
... slavery I do not recognize as an institution of my country ; it is an excrescence , a vile usurpation , hated of God ... slavery as one of them , and , as such , screens it from assault . Slavery is a blight , a canker , a poison , in ...
... slavery I do not recognize as an institution of my country ; it is an excrescence , a vile usurpation , hated of God ... slavery as one of them , and , as such , screens it from assault . Slavery is a blight , a canker , a poison , in ...
Seite xiv
... slavery . That system is still , unhappily , identified in the minds of many with the supposed material interests of society , and even with the well being of the slaves themselves ; but the plausible arguments and ingenious sophistries ...
... slavery . That system is still , unhappily , identified in the minds of many with the supposed material interests of society , and even with the well being of the slaves themselves ; but the plausible arguments and ingenious sophistries ...
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... slavery interest at the seat of government , has proposed that the worst features of the system , such as the ... slavery . As to what this American system of slavery is , the best documents for enlightening the minds of British ...
... slavery interest at the seat of government , has proposed that the worst features of the system , such as the ... slavery . As to what this American system of slavery is , the best documents for enlightening the minds of British ...
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... slavery as it is , and certainly without any exaggeration . Read the advertisements for the sale of slaves and for the apprehension of fugitives , the descriptions of the persons of slaves , of dogs for hunting slaves , & c . , and you ...
... slavery as it is , and certainly without any exaggeration . Read the advertisements for the sale of slaves and for the apprehension of fugitives , the descriptions of the persons of slaves , of dogs for hunting slaves , & c . , and you ...
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... slavery , in substance coinciding with the one so nobly proposed and carried forward by Lord Shaftesbury . At this meeting it was suggested that it would be a sincere gratification to many if some testimonial could be presented to Mrs ...
... slavery , in substance coinciding with the one so nobly proposed and carried forward by Lord Shaftesbury . At this meeting it was suggested that it would be a sincere gratification to many if some testimonial could be presented to Mrs ...
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Aberdeen admiration America antislavery appearance applause Argyle artist beautiful Blantyre called carriage castle cathedral cause Christian church circle color cotton Duchess of Argyle Duchess of Sutherland Duke of Sutherland Dundee Earl Edinburgh Elihu Burritt England English evil expressed eyes fanciful feel flowers friends give Glamis Castle Glasgow Gothic Gothic architecture grounds hall hear heard heart honor human hundred idea interest Joseph Sturge kind labor ladies land letters look Lord Carlisle lord provost Lord Shaftesbury Loud cheers meeting mind moral nation never noble Old Mortality passed poet poetic present religious remarkable ruins Scotch Scotland Scott seemed seen sentiment Shakspeare side slave slaveholding slavery society soul speak spirit Stowe Sturge sympathy thing thought thousand tion told trees Uncle Tom's Cabin walked walls whole woman women young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite xxx - He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth : and the isles shall wait for his law.
Seite li - And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Seite 155 - Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes : With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise : Arise, arise.
Seite 44 - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies <pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide : Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Seite 27 - I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child.
Seite 155 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby ; lulla, lulla, lullaby ; Never harm, nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby.
Seite 136 - And glimmered all the dead men's mail. Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair — So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly line of high St Clair.
Seite 70 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me !" LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Seite l - In that church there is neither Greek nor Jew, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free...
Seite 173 - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.