Clotel; or, The president's daughter |
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Página 87
... Peck was a native of the state of Connecticut , where he was educated for the ministry , in the Methodist persuasion . His father was a strict follower of John Wesley , and spared no pains in his son's education , with the hope that he ...
... Peck was a native of the state of Connecticut , where he was educated for the ministry , in the Methodist persuasion . His father was a strict follower of John Wesley , and spared no pains in his son's education , with the hope that he ...
Página 88
... Peck was , every inch of him , a de- mocrat , and early resolved that his “ people , ” as he called his slaves , should be well fed and not over- worked , and therefore laid down the law and gospel to the overseer as well as the slaves ...
... Peck was , every inch of him , a de- mocrat , and early resolved that his “ people , ” as he called his slaves , should be well fed and not over- worked , and therefore laid down the law and gospel to the overseer as well as the slaves ...
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... Peck laughed and appeared pleased , rather than otherwise , at the manner in which his daughter had expressed herself . That From this Georgiana took courage and said , " We must try the character of slavery , and our duty in regard to ...
... Peck laughed and appeared pleased , rather than otherwise , at the manner in which his daughter had expressed herself . That From this Georgiana took courage and said , " We must try the character of slavery , and our duty in regard to ...
Página 92
... Peck having lost his wife by consumption , and Georgiana being his only child , he loved her too dearly to say more , even if he felt displeased . A silence followed this exhortation from the young Christian . But her remarks had done a ...
... Peck having lost his wife by consumption , and Georgiana being his only child , he loved her too dearly to say more , even if he felt displeased . A silence followed this exhortation from the young Christian . But her remarks had done a ...
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... Peck give dat sermon to Snyder , I know , ” said Uncle Simon . “ He jest de one for dat , ” replied Sandy . " I think de people dat made do Bible was great fools , ” said Ned . 66 " Why ? ” Uncle Simon . “ ' Cause dey made such a great ...
... Peck give dat sermon to Snyder , I know , ” said Uncle Simon . “ He jest de one for dat , ” replied Sandy . " I think de people dat made do Bible was great fools , ” said Ned . 66 " Why ? ” Uncle Simon . “ ' Cause dey made such a great ...
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Clotel Or the President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United ... William Wells Brown Vista previa restringida - 1996 |
Clotel, Or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the ... William Wells Brown Vista de fragmentos - 1989 |
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Página 144 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, — a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? — that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Página 89 - I should return to the service of my earthly master, " for he who knoweth his Master's will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes, and thus have I chastened you.
Página 108 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners...
Página 108 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Página 4 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin...
Página 88 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...
Página 110 - Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Página 173 - ... pure religion and undefiled before God, even the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Página 145 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Página 166 - Who can. with patience, for a moment see The medley mass of pride and misery, Of whips and charters, manacles and rights, Of slaving blacks and democratic whites. And all the piebald polity that reigns In free confusion o'er Columbia's plains?