Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly, Volume 2John P. Jewett, 1852 - Slavery |
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... law that amounts to anything prac- tically , for such a case . The best we can do is to shut our eyes and ears , and let it alone . It's the only resource left us . " " How can you shut your eyes and ears ? How can you let such things ...
... law that amounts to anything prac- tically , for such a case . The best we can do is to shut our eyes and ears , and let it alone . It's the only resource left us . " " How can you shut your eyes and ears ? How can you let such things ...
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... law - books , and make anything else of it . Talk of the abuses of slavery ! Humbug ! The thing itself is the ... laws put into our hands . And he who goes the furthest , and does the worst , only uses within limits the power that ...
... law - books , and make anything else of it . Talk of the abuses of slavery ! Humbug ! The thing itself is the ... laws put into our hands . And he who goes the furthest , and does the worst , only uses within limits the power that ...
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... laws to become absolute despot of as many men , women and children , as he could cheat , steal , or gamble money enough to buy , when I have seen such men in actual ownership of helpless children , of young girls and women , -- I have ...
... laws to become absolute despot of as many men , women and children , as he could cheat , steal , or gamble money enough to buy , when I have seen such men in actual ownership of helpless children , of young girls and women , -- I have ...
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... let them be uninstructed and vicious , and think our children will not be affected by that . Yet our laws positively and utterly forbid any efficient general educational system , and they do it wisely , 24 UNCLE TOM'S CABIN : OR ,
... let them be uninstructed and vicious , and think our children will not be affected by that . Yet our laws positively and utterly forbid any efficient general educational system , and they do it wisely , 24 UNCLE TOM'S CABIN : OR ,
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... Laws , Missis , there's heaps of ' em . Speculators buys ' em up cheap , when they's little , and gets ' em raised for market . " " How long have you lived with your master and mis- tress ? " " Dun no , Missis . " " Is it a year , or ...
... Laws , Missis , there's heaps of ' em . Speculators buys ' em up cheap , when they's little , and gets ' em raised for market . " " How long have you lived with your master and mis- tress ? " " Dun no , Missis . " " Is it a year , or ...
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Page 134 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 187 - When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Page 133 - When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all his holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats." St. Clare read on in an animated voice, till he came to the last of the verses. "Then shall the king say unto them on his left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was...
Page 134 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Page 177 - When shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls And pearly gates behold ? Thy bulwarks, with salvation strong, And streets of shining gold...
Page 64 - I see a band of spirits bright. That taste the glories there ; They all are robed in spotless white, And conquering palms they bear.
Page 188 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 248 - And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying: let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
Page 34 - That's you Christians, all over! — you'll get up a society, and get some poor missionary to spend all his days among just such heathen. But let me see one of you that would take one into your house with you, and take the labor of their conversion on yourselves ! No ; when it comes to that, they are dirty and disagreeable, and it's too much care, and so on.
Page 37 - I'm not playing with you. Tell me where you were born, and who your father and mother were." "Never was born," reiterated the creature, more emphatically; "never had no father nor mother, nor nothin'.