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Page 203 - There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man; the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire.
Page 7 - Our fathers to their graves have gone ; Their strife is past, their triumph won ; But sterner trials wait the race Which rises in their honored place ; A moral warfare with the crime And folly of an evil time. So let it be. In God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons He has given, — The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.
Page 39 - ... this day. It is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they will reject with indignation the wild and guilty phantasy, that man can hold property in man...
Page 29 - ... the idea that he was born to be free will survive it all. It is allied to his hope of immortality; it is...
Page 39 - There is a law above all the enactments of human codes— the same throughout the world, the same in all times...
Page 278 - That such separation among persons situated as our slaves are, is civilly a separation by death, and they believe, that, in the sight of God, it would be so viewed. To forbid second marriages in such cases, would be to expose the parties, not only to stronger hardships and strong temptation, but to church censure, for acting in obedience to their masters...
Page 275 - From long continued and close observation, we believe that their moral and religious condition is such that they may justly be considered the HEATHEN of this Christian country, and will bear comparison with heathen in any country in the world. The negroes are destitute of the Gospel, and ever will be under the present state of things.
Page 53 - WHAT man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which Deceit doth mask in visor fair, And cast her colors dyed deep in grain, To seem like Truth, whose shape she well can feign, And fitting gestures to her purpose frame, The guiltless man with guile to entertain ? Great mistress of her art was that false dame, The false Duessa, cloked with fair Fidessa's name.
Page 67 - But rather to tell how, if art could tell, How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, With mazy error under pendant shades...
Page 62 - Tis the still water faileth ; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth; Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labor is glory! — the flying cloud lightens; Only the waving wing changes and brightens ; Idle hearts only the dark future frightens : Play the sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune!