Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweAn absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. |
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Page 84
... head with the vastest ambitions of his career . No mere Kingdom on earth now did he envisage himself as conquering for God , but an Empire - the West . In July he was writing about it to Catharine . “ ... While at Philadelphia and since ...
... head with the vastest ambitions of his career . No mere Kingdom on earth now did he envisage himself as conquering for God , but an Empire - the West . In July he was writing about it to Catharine . “ ... While at Philadelphia and since ...
Page 199
... head - full since I saw you . Now , today , for example , I'll tell you what I had on my mind from dawn to dewy eve . In the first place , I waked about half - after - four and thought , " Bless me , how light it is ! I must get out of ...
... head - full since I saw you . Now , today , for example , I'll tell you what I had on my mind from dawn to dewy eve . In the first place , I waked about half - after - four and thought , " Bless me , how light it is ! I must get out of ...
Page 618
... head of cattle , four head of hoss , forty head of hen , and I have got ten children — all mine , every one mine . " Well , that is a thing that a black man could not say once ; and this man was sixty years old before he could say it ...
... head of cattle , four head of hoss , forty head of hen , and I have got ten children — all mine , every one mine . " Well , that is a thing that a black man could not say once ; and this man was sixty years old before he could say it ...
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