Clotel; or, The president's daughter |
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... hours before , had arrested poor panting , fugitive slaves , now read a chapter from the Bible and offered a prayer to God ; as if that benignant and omnipotent One consecrated the in- fernal act he had just committed . The next morning ...
... hours before , had arrested poor panting , fugitive slaves , now read a chapter from the Bible and offered a prayer to God ; as if that benignant and omnipotent One consecrated the in- fernal act he had just committed . The next morning ...
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... hours , when the clouds rolled away , and his friend , with its shining face — the North Star — welcomed his sight . True as the needle to the pole he obeyed its attractive beauty , and walked on till daylight dawned . It was winter ...
... hours , when the clouds rolled away , and his friend , with its shining face — the North Star — welcomed his sight . True as the needle to the pole he obeyed its attractive beauty , and walked on till daylight dawned . It was winter ...
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... hour — an hour big with fate to him — he saw the covered waggon making its appearance , and no one on it but the person he be- fore accosted . Trembling with hope and fear , he entered the waggon , and was carried to the person's house ...
... hour — an hour big with fate to him — he saw the covered waggon making its appearance , and no one on it but the person he be- fore accosted . Trembling with hope and fear , he entered the waggon , and was carried to the person's house ...
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... hours before , had arrested poor panting , fugitive slaves , now read a chapter from the Bible and offered a prayer to God ; as if that benignant and omnipotent One consecrated the in- fernal act he had just committed . The next morning ...
... hours before , had arrested poor panting , fugitive slaves , now read a chapter from the Bible and offered a prayer to God ; as if that benignant and omnipotent One consecrated the in- fernal act he had just committed . The next morning ...
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... hours , when the clouds rolled away , and his friend , with its shining face — the North Star - welcomed his sight . True as the needle to the pole he obeyed its attractive beauty , and walked on till daylight dawned . It was winter ...
... hours , when the clouds rolled away , and his friend , with its shining face — the North Star - welcomed his sight . True as the needle to the pole he obeyed its attractive beauty , and walked on till daylight dawned . It was winter ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
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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Althesa American appearance asked Attakapas beautiful Bible boat Canada Carlton cause chains child Christian Clotel cloth coloured commenced Currer daughter dear death Demy 18mo despotism Devenant dollars EDGWARE ROAD Edward Hore escape eyes father Fcap fear feel felt freedom fugitive slave gentleman George George Green Georgiana gilt girl give Green hand hear heard heart honour hope Horatio hour Huckelby human husband labour lady Lake Erie land liberty look marriage Marser master mistress morning mother mulatto negro never nigger night Ohio river Orleans owner passed Peck persons Pompey poor purchase quadroon replied returned runaway seated servant Shinplasters slaveholder slavery Snyder sold soon steamer taken tell thought told took trader Uncle Simon whip wife William Wells Brown wish woman young
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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?