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... greater or less extent , repressing and neutralizing the lofty efforts of those who are infinitely better than themselves . These sluggish and apathetic enemies of true pro- gress , these unimpressible bafflers and repellers of good ...
... greater or less extent , repressing and neutralizing the lofty efforts of those who are infinitely better than themselves . These sluggish and apathetic enemies of true pro- gress , these unimpressible bafflers and repellers of good ...
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... upon general considerations , is the higher civilization of the white race to be taken as a reason of its greater resistance to leveling causes . On this particular point , as already intimated AN INFERIOR FELLOW DONE FOR . 23.
... upon general considerations , is the higher civilization of the white race to be taken as a reason of its greater resistance to leveling causes . On this particular point , as already intimated AN INFERIOR FELLOW DONE FOR . 23.
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... greater than those distinguishing species of animals one from the other . The Chimpanzee and Gorilla do not differ more one from the other than the Mandingo and the Guinea Negro ; they together do not differ more from the Ourang ...
... greater than those distinguishing species of animals one from the other . The Chimpanzee and Gorilla do not differ more one from the other than the Mandingo and the Guinea Negro ; they together do not differ more from the Ourang ...
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... greater or less share of beauty in the two races ? Are not the fine mixtures of red and white , the expression of every passion by greater or less suffusions of color in the one , preferable to that eternal monotony , which reigns in ...
... greater or less share of beauty in the two races ? Are not the fine mixtures of red and white , the expression of every passion by greater or less suffusions of color in the one , preferable to that eternal monotony , which reigns in ...
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... greater degree of transpiration , renders them more tolerant of heat , and less so of cold than the whites . Perhaps , too , a difference of structure in the pul- monary apparatus , which a late ingenious experimentalist has dis ...
... greater degree of transpiration , renders them more tolerant of heat , and less so of cold than the whites . Perhaps , too , a difference of structure in the pul- monary apparatus , which a late ingenious experimentalist has dis ...
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Page 156 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 179 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Page 157 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 238 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea ; his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.
Page 107 - And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves : and he was transfigured before them. And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
Page 109 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Page 242 - Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us : for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
Page 237 - And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Page 108 - And immediately I was in the spirit : and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Page 242 - And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man : for the Lord fought for Israel.