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... seen , in painfully loath- some and inauspicious numbers , on both sides of each of the three great Americas , -North America , South America , and Central America . I speak of negroes , mulattoes , Indians , Chinese , and other ...
... seen , in painfully loath- some and inauspicious numbers , on both sides of each of the three great Americas , -North America , South America , and Central America . I speak of negroes , mulattoes , Indians , Chinese , and other ...
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... seen ' - sustain any detriment , after , by due meditation and prayer , we had surmounted the first shock ? Let us survey the consequences . " If the two first inhabitants of Eden were the 2 * AN INFERIOR FELLOW DONE FOR . 33.
... seen ' - sustain any detriment , after , by due meditation and prayer , we had surmounted the first shock ? Let us survey the consequences . " If the two first inhabitants of Eden were the 2 * AN INFERIOR FELLOW DONE FOR . 33.
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... seen many of them in each of the three great Amer- icas , North , Central , and South , ) I have reason to believe that you have succeeded with remarkable accuracy , con- sidering the brevity of your personal observations and ...
... seen many of them in each of the three great Amer- icas , North , Central , and South , ) I have reason to believe that you have succeeded with remarkable accuracy , con- sidering the brevity of your personal observations and ...
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... seen ; the very small , thick ears , which stand off from the head ; the short , crisp , woolly hair , and the black color of the skin- are the most marked peculiarities of the negro type . The southern races , which inhabit Loanda and ...
... seen ; the very small , thick ears , which stand off from the head ; the short , crisp , woolly hair , and the black color of the skin- are the most marked peculiarities of the negro type . The southern races , which inhabit Loanda and ...
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... foot . It will be seen that all the diver- gencies of the negro from the European are so many approximations towards the type of the ape . " 1 Again , in his essay on " The Black 52 THE NEGRO , ANTHROPOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED ;
... foot . It will be seen that all the diver- gencies of the negro from the European are so many approximations towards the type of the ape . " 1 Again , in his essay on " The Black 52 THE NEGRO , ANTHROPOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED ;
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Page 110 - 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 93 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 114 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth...
Page 183 - 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 246 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 159 - 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 158 - 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 246 - Bethhoron, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them, unto Azekah, and they died ; they were more which died with hailstones, than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Page 242 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea ; his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.
Page 159 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.