Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volumen 1Phillips, Sampson,, 1854 - 432 páginas |
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Página xii
... slavery I do not recognize as an institution of my country ; it is an excrescence , a vile usurpation , hated of God ... slavery as one of them , and , as such , screens it from assault . Slavery is a blight , a canker , a poison , in ...
... slavery I do not recognize as an institution of my country ; it is an excrescence , a vile usurpation , hated of God ... slavery as one of them , and , as such , screens it from assault . Slavery is a blight , a canker , a poison , in ...
Página xiv
... slavery . That system is still , unhappily , identified in the minds of many with the supposed material interests of society , and even with the well being of the slaves themselves ; but the plausible arguments and ingenious sophistries ...
... slavery . That system is still , unhappily , identified in the minds of many with the supposed material interests of society , and even with the well being of the slaves themselves ; but the plausible arguments and ingenious sophistries ...
Página xv
... slavery interest at the seat of government , has proposed that the worst features of the system , such as the ... slavery . As to what this American system of slavery is , the best documents for enlightening the minds of British ...
... slavery interest at the seat of government , has proposed that the worst features of the system , such as the ... slavery . As to what this American system of slavery is , the best documents for enlightening the minds of British ...
Página xvi
... slavery as it is , and certainly without any exaggeration . Read the advertisements for the sale of slaves and for the apprehension of fugitives , the descriptions of the persons of slaves , of dogs for hunting slaves , & c . , and you ...
... slavery as it is , and certainly without any exaggeration . Read the advertisements for the sale of slaves and for the apprehension of fugitives , the descriptions of the persons of slaves , of dogs for hunting slaves , & c . , and you ...
Página xvii
... slavery , in substance coinciding with the one so nobly proposed and carried forward by Lord Shaftesbury . At this meeting it was suggested that it would be a sincere gratification to many if some testimonial could be presented to Mrs ...
... slavery , in substance coinciding with the one so nobly proposed and carried forward by Lord Shaftesbury . At this meeting it was suggested that it would be a sincere gratification to many if some testimonial could be presented to Mrs ...
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abbey Aberdeen admiration America antislavery appeared applause beautiful called Carlisle carriage castle cathedral cause Christian church color cottage cotton Duchess of Argyle Duchess of Sutherland Duke Duke of Sutherland Dundee Earl Edinburgh Elihu Burritt England English evil expressed eyes fanciful feel flowers friends gentlemen give Glasgow hall hear heard heart honor human hundred interest Joseph Sturge kind labor ladies land letters living look Lord Carlisle lord provost Lord Shaftesbury Loud cheers meeting mind moral nation never noble Old Mortality passed picture poet poetic present religious Roslin Castle ruins Scotch Scotland Scott seemed seen sentiment Shakspeare side slave slaveholding slavery society soul speak spirit stone Stowe Sturge sympathy thing thought thousand tion told trees Uncle Tom's Cabin walked walls Warwick whole woman
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Página 121 - CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That flowers in tears of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply, 10 And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Página 19 - I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child.
Página 191 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby ; lulla, lulla, lullaby ; Never harm, nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby.
Página 211 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Página 191 - Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes; With everything that pretty bin : My lady sweet, arise! Arise! arise!
Página 36 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies <pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide...
Página 172 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell ; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle ! XXIV.
Página 149 - A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Página 149 - The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold ; The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold ; The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers ; The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours.
Página xlii - There is neither Greek nor Jew, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free : but Christ is all and in all.