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... hath done no harm , and deserveth good treatment . " The adversary , not admiring such an object of contemplation , went away muttering more reasonable threats , conditional and and subjunctive . Ebenezer , I guess , aggravated and wore ...
... hath done no harm , and deserveth good treatment . " The adversary , not admiring such an object of contemplation , went away muttering more reasonable threats , conditional and and subjunctive . Ebenezer , I guess , aggravated and wore ...
Page 70
... hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable , than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations , begun at a distinguished ...
... hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable , than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations , begun at a distinguished ...
Page 201
... hath given us beauty for ashes , and the oil of gladness for the spirit of heaviness . He hath turned our groans into songs , our mourning into dancing . He hath put off our sack- cloth , and girded us with gladness , to the end that ...
... hath given us beauty for ashes , and the oil of gladness for the spirit of heaviness . He hath turned our groans into songs , our mourning into dancing . He hath put off our sack- cloth , and girded us with gladness , to the end that ...
Page 202
... hath so ordained , and doth so govern things , that those who break the great law of Heaven by shedding man's blood , seldom succeed in avoiding discovery . Especially , in a case exciting so much attention as this , discovery must come ...
... hath so ordained , and doth so govern things , that those who break the great law of Heaven by shedding man's blood , seldom succeed in avoiding discovery . Especially , in a case exciting so much attention as this , discovery must come ...
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... hath chosen the better part . " This was the supreme test in the case of an individual . It is the highest test in the case of a race or nation . Let us apply this test to the American Negro . In the life of our Republic , when he has ...
... hath chosen the better part . " This was the supreme test in the case of an individual . It is the highest test in the case of a race or nation . Let us apply this test to the American Negro . In the life of our Republic , when he has ...
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