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... less perilous than a journey to London in the days of our grandfathers . I have attempted to analyze the state of mind in which I am about to visit America — very different from that in which I should have visited the States a few years ...
... less perilous than a journey to London in the days of our grandfathers . I have attempted to analyze the state of mind in which I am about to visit America — very different from that in which I should have visited the States a few years ...
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... less of human genius , and more of the insigni- ficance of man , who lives , and moves , and invents , by the sufferance of Him who gives us the use of a little of his power , which , at any moment , he lets loose to our own destruction ...
... less of human genius , and more of the insigni- ficance of man , who lives , and moves , and invents , by the sufferance of Him who gives us the use of a little of his power , which , at any moment , he lets loose to our own destruction ...
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... less than from the momentary agony of one fatal plunge into this de- vouring sea . Happy they who can say in the view of both the first and second death- " when deep calleth unto deep ” — " The Lord will command his loving kindness in ...
... less than from the momentary agony of one fatal plunge into this de- vouring sea . Happy they who can say in the view of both the first and second death- " when deep calleth unto deep ” — " The Lord will command his loving kindness in ...
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... less that of an individual taking a fancy to solitude , and self- society . The card on your bed - room door instructs you that no meals are served in private , except in cases of sickness . " Everything , however , is in the highest ...
... less that of an individual taking a fancy to solitude , and self- society . The card on your bed - room door instructs you that no meals are served in private , except in cases of sickness . " Everything , however , is in the highest ...
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... less self - command than a steamer , it would awaken something more than interest . It only makes our motion slower and more laborious , while we contend against it . For a few moments the two antagonist powers seem balanced , and we ...
... less self - command than a steamer , it would awaken something more than interest . It only makes our motion slower and more laborious , while we contend against it . For a few moments the two antagonist powers seem balanced , and we ...
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Page 191 - Jerusalem, my happy home, When shall I come to thee ? When shall my sorrows have an end, Thy joys when shall I see...
Page 276 - With whom he came across the eastern deep, Fills the savannas with his murmurings, And hides his sweets, as in the golden age, Within the hollow oak. I listen long To his domestic hum, and think I hear The sound of that advancing multitude Which soon shall fill these deserts.
Page 262 - We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Eoom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us daily nearer God.
Page 54 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Page 10 - Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Page 91 - ... idleness ; and I have no objection to your giving my money in charity to the amount of forty or fifty pounds a year, when you think it well bestowed.
Page 118 - I emancipate and set free my servant, David Rice, and direct my executors to give him one hundred dollars. I recommend him in the strongest manner to the respect, esteem and confidence, of any community in which he may happen to live. He has been my slave for twenty-four years, during all which time he has been trusted to every extent, and in every respect; my confidence in him has been unbounded; his relation to myself and family has always been such as to afford him daily opportunities to deceive...
Page 212 - I do not know what to make of them ; was there a white man over them with a whip in his hand, all day, why then I should see and understand the cause of their running, and incessant labour; but I cannot comprehend it, Sir; there is something in it, Sir — there is something in it. Great man, Sir, that Jim — great man, Sir, should like to own him, Sir, should like to own him.
Page 302 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Page 91 - You are to consider, that neither myself nor wife is now in the way to do these good offices. In all other respects, I recommend it to you, and have no doubt of your observing the greatest economy and frugality ; as I suppose you know, that I do not get a farthing for my services here, more than my expenses. It becomes necessary, therefore, for me to be saving at home.