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... ceased to influence her . Africa had not begun . Her history was waiting for the mighty influence which America was to exercise in her affairs through all the future ages . Men had been slow to establish completely their dominion over ...
... ceased to influence her . Africa had not begun . Her history was waiting for the mighty influence which America was to exercise in her affairs through all the future ages . Men had been slow to establish completely their dominion over ...
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... ceased . After thirty years of hard fighting , and huge waste of life and property , the fortunate English had been able to determine which branch of a certain old family was to rule over them . Henry VII . , with his clear , cold head ...
... ceased . After thirty years of hard fighting , and huge waste of life and property , the fortunate English had been able to determine which branch of a certain old family was to rule over them . Henry VII . , with his clear , cold head ...
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... ceased ; and with it may be said to close , in America , all forcible interference with the right of men to think for themselves . The Quakers , as they are known to us , are of all sects the least offensive . A persecution of this ...
... ceased ; and with it may be said to close , in America , all forcible interference with the right of men to think for themselves . The Quakers , as they are known to us , are of all sects the least offensive . A persecution of this ...
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... ceased . Unoffending persons were sys- tematically kidnapped and sold . The tribes went to war in the hope of taking prisoners whom they might dispose of to the Span- England was not engaged in that traffic at its outset . Erelong her ...
... ceased . Unoffending persons were sys- tematically kidnapped and sold . The tribes went to war in the hope of taking prisoners whom they might dispose of to the Span- England was not engaged in that traffic at its outset . Erelong her ...
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... ceased to labor at his business . Henceforth he labored to serve his fellow - men .. Philadelphia owes to Franklin her university , her hospital , her fire- brigade , her first and greatest library . He earned renown as a man of science ...
... ceased to labor at his business . Henceforth he labored to serve his fellow - men .. Philadelphia owes to Franklin her university , her hospital , her fire- brigade , her first and greatest library . He earned renown as a man of science ...
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Page 32 - He sincerely hopes that your views and your action may so accord with his as to assure all faithful citizens who have been disturbed in their rights of a certain and speedy restoration to them, under the Constitution and the laws. And having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
Page 36 - I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with My contemners so with you My grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel! Since God is marching on.
Page 36 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 30 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 36 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 33 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 30 - It is indeed in conformity with the ordinance of the Creator. It is not for us to inquire into the wisdom of His ordinances, or to question them. For His own purposes He has made one race to differ from another, as He has made "one star to differ from another star in glory.