Pitman's Popular Lecturer and Reader, Volume 8F. Pitman, 1863 |
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... common cause , and agree to elect a president and a government opposed to the extension of slavery . The Republican party are not , as a whole , opposed to slavery in principle . But they are opposed to its extension , and in favour of ...
... common cause , and agree to elect a president and a government opposed to the extension of slavery . The Republican party are not , as a whole , opposed to slavery in principle . But they are opposed to its extension , and in favour of ...
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... common , whether by conquest or purchase ; of surrounding them entirely by states in which slavery should be prohibited ; of thus rendering the property in slaves so insecure as to be entirely worthless . " It is also deserving of ...
... common , whether by conquest or purchase ; of surrounding them entirely by states in which slavery should be prohibited ; of thus rendering the property in slaves so insecure as to be entirely worthless . " It is also deserving of ...
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... common - place : it is water from the Rock of Truth , sparkling , clear , and fresh , that has yet gathered no animalculæ for the solar microscope to magnify into horrors enough to terrify even the temperance society . His poetry is ...
... common - place : it is water from the Rock of Truth , sparkling , clear , and fresh , that has yet gathered no animalculæ for the solar microscope to magnify into horrors enough to terrify even the temperance society . His poetry is ...
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... common weal , and we should at once be thrown into the deadly embrace of an enemy from whom we could not escape . Gaunt famine , with his sunken eye and hollow cheek , would stare us in the face , and with an influence more potent than ...
... common weal , and we should at once be thrown into the deadly embrace of an enemy from whom we could not escape . Gaunt famine , with his sunken eye and hollow cheek , would stare us in the face , and with an influence more potent than ...
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biologist , would reduce all classes to one common level- the grave . Our hero is of no mean extraction or ignoble birth ; he boasts an ancestry far more remote than the oldest dukedom or barony in the House of Peers ; whilst few can ...
biologist , would reduce all classes to one common level- the grave . Our hero is of no mean extraction or ignoble birth ; he boasts an ancestry far more remote than the oldest dukedom or barony in the House of Peers ; whilst few can ...
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Page 346 - And this is in the night: — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth! And now again 'tis black, — and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Page 163 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn : He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 157 - Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts, that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Page 124 - John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Page 346 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
Page 127 - Twas for your pleasure you came here, You shall go back for mine.
Page 95 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Page 123 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear — Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will £11 the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Page 164 - I remember, I remember The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from- Heaven Than when I was a boy.
Page 157 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.