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... universal that it well deserves more attention . " Thomas Jefferson , who was , beyond all question , the most philosophic and far - seeing statesman who has yet left upon America the mark of his greatness , in his " Notes on Virginia ...
... universal that it well deserves more attention . " Thomas Jefferson , who was , beyond all question , the most philosophic and far - seeing statesman who has yet left upon America the mark of his greatness , in his " Notes on Virginia ...
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... universal justice and kindness - would this faith - the substance of things hoped for , the evidence of things not seen ' -sustain any detriment , after , by due meditation and prayer , we had surmounted the first shock ? Let us survey ...
... universal justice and kindness - would this faith - the substance of things hoped for , the evidence of things not seen ' -sustain any detriment , after , by due meditation and prayer , we had surmounted the first shock ? Let us survey ...
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... universal ill - omen and detestation . Every- where , also , is it plainly observable , that the displeasing and repulsive characteristics of blackness are affixed to faulty and effete things in general , and to the negroes in ...
... universal ill - omen and detestation . Every- where , also , is it plainly observable , that the displeasing and repulsive characteristics of blackness are affixed to faulty and effete things in general , and to the negroes in ...
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... universal thrill of horror . Edward Thomson , of Ohio , an eloquent minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church , in a sermon which he preached some years ago , on " The Missionary Enter- prise , " said , with fullness of truth , " Turn ...
... universal thrill of horror . Edward Thomson , of Ohio , an eloquent minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church , in a sermon which he preached some years ago , on " The Missionary Enter- prise , " said , with fullness of truth , " Turn ...
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... Universal Literature , " page 366 , we learn that , " The antithesis of a good and evil principle is met with among most of the Sclavonic tribes ; and even at the present time , in some of their dialects , everything good and beautiful ...
... Universal Literature , " page 366 , we learn that , " The antithesis of a good and evil principle is met with among most of the Sclavonic tribes ; and even at the present time , in some of their dialects , everything good and beautiful ...
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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.