Life of Jehudi Ashmun, Late Colonial Agent in Liberia: With an Appendix Containing Extracts from His Journal and Other Writings, with a Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Lott Cary |
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... feelings and hopes . CHAPTER XVII . Arriva ! at Liberia of the Doris , Randolph , and Nautilus - Visit of Mr. Ashmun to the Colonial Factories - His excessive labors , Sickness , Em- barkation for the United States - Arrival at St ...
... feelings and hopes . CHAPTER XVII . Arriva ! at Liberia of the Doris , Randolph , and Nautilus - Visit of Mr. Ashmun to the Colonial Factories - His excessive labors , Sickness , Em- barkation for the United States - Arrival at St ...
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... of this youth , at a social prayer - meeting , expressive of his own happiness as a child of God , appears first to have arrested the attention , and excited strongly the feelings of Ashmun . An awful LIFE OF ASIIMUN . 19.
... of this youth , at a social prayer - meeting , expressive of his own happiness as a child of God , appears first to have arrested the attention , and excited strongly the feelings of Ashmun . An awful LIFE OF ASIIMUN . 19.
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... feelings of Ashmun . An awful dark- ness enveloped him , and he was overwhelmed in guilt and misery . But after a short season he was enabled , as he ever afterwards believed , to trust in the Saviour , and to consecrate himself wholly ...
... feelings of Ashmun . An awful dark- ness enveloped him , and he was overwhelmed in guilt and misery . But after a short season he was enabled , as he ever afterwards believed , to trust in the Saviour , and to consecrate himself wholly ...
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... feelings of one who habitually commun- ed with God , and viewed every object in the light of the eter- nal world . All his thoughts and affections seemed occupied with religion ; this was the chief subject of his conversation ; and its ...
... feelings of one who habitually commun- ed with God , and viewed every object in the light of the eter- nal world . All his thoughts and affections seemed occupied with religion ; this was the chief subject of his conversation ; and its ...
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... feelings and powerful passions . The talents which render men capable of great and noble actions , may , if perverted , cover them with all the disgrace and infamy of crime . Ashmun was naturally self- confident , proud , ambitious ...
... feelings and powerful passions . The talents which render men capable of great and noble actions , may , if perverted , cover them with all the disgrace and infamy of crime . Ashmun was naturally self- confident , proud , ambitious ...
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