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... Slave - holding States not only separated , but engaged in the fiercest hostilities , the former would deserve the ... SLAVERY . Slavery 202.
... Slave - holding States not only separated , but engaged in the fiercest hostilities , the former would deserve the ... SLAVERY . Slavery 202.
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... slave . There are not a few persons , who , from vulgar modes of thinking , cannot be interested in this subject . Because the slave is a degraded being , they think slavery a low topic , and wonder how it can excite the attention and ...
... slave . There are not a few persons , who , from vulgar modes of thinking , cannot be interested in this subject . Because the slave is a degraded being , they think slavery a low topic , and wonder how it can excite the attention and ...
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... slavery is a great wrong , but I do not intend to pass sentence on the character of the slave - holder . These two subjects are distinct . Men are not always to be interpreted by their acts or institutions . The same acts in differ- ent ...
... slavery is a great wrong , but I do not intend to pass sentence on the character of the slave - holder . These two subjects are distinct . Men are not always to be interpreted by their acts or institutions . The same acts in differ- ent ...
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William Ellery Channing. CHAPTER I. - PROPERTY . The slave - holder claims the slave as his Property . The very idea of a slave is , that he belongs to another , that he is bound to live and labour for another , to be another's ...
William Ellery Channing. CHAPTER I. - PROPERTY . The slave - holder claims the slave as his Property . The very idea of a slave is , that he belongs to another , that he is bound to live and labour for another , to be another's ...
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... slavery is , to put a man defenceless into the hands of another . The right claimed by the master , to task , to force , to im- prison , to whip , and to punish the slave , at discretion , and especially to prevent the least resistance ...
... slavery is , to put a man defenceless into the hands of another . The right claimed by the master , to task , to force , to im- prison , to whip , and to punish the slave , at discretion , and especially to prevent the least resistance ...
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Page 505 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory ; whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus ; whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Page 26 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 14 - God's almightiness, and what he works and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Page 167 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 16 - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 95 - Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Page 587 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 6 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of Silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of Darkness till it smiled.
Page 368 - The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God is most unfaltering...
Page 8 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...