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... appearance has made a kind of epoch in the literary , as well as , I trust , in the moral history of the time . The mention of the bare reading would , indeed , afford a most inadequate measure of the extraordinary impression which it ...
... appearance has made a kind of epoch in the literary , as well as , I trust , in the moral history of the time . The mention of the bare reading would , indeed , afford a most inadequate measure of the extraordinary impression which it ...
Page iv
... enough to send to me ; I refer to what appeared to me a sin- gular want of knowledge , and , therefore , a failure of justice , in speaking of the general condition of our iv THE PREFACE . -AN EVENING IN UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.
... enough to send to me ; I refer to what appeared to me a sin- gular want of knowledge , and , therefore , a failure of justice , in speaking of the general condition of our iv THE PREFACE . -AN EVENING IN UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.
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... appeared in " Fraser's Magazine ; " and I have reason to know that Mrs. Beecher Stowe has ex- pressed herself on the subject with the fairness and the candour which might be expected from her . I am convinced that the motive which ...
... appeared in " Fraser's Magazine ; " and I have reason to know that Mrs. Beecher Stowe has ex- pressed herself on the subject with the fairness and the candour which might be expected from her . I am convinced that the motive which ...
Page vi
... appeared , instinct , as I must say it appeared to me , with all the susceptibility , the sourness , and the jealousy , of the slave - holding and slavery - fostering system itself . My chief consolation is , that it did not appear in ...
... appeared , instinct , as I must say it appeared to me , with all the susceptibility , the sourness , and the jealousy , of the slave - holding and slavery - fostering system itself . My chief consolation is , that it did not appear in ...
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... , and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions , which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe . b His companion , Mr. Shelby , had the appearance of CHAPTER.
... , and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions , which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe . b His companion , Mr. Shelby , had the appearance of CHAPTER.
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Page 423 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Page 210 - TRULY God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Page 466 - The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
Page 421 - When we've been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We've no less days to sing God's praise, Than when we first begun.
Page 378 - 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 424 - 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 337 - 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 210 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, Until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end.
Page 274 - Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.
Page 371 - When shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls And pearly gates behold ? Thy bulwarks, with salvation strong, And streets of shining gold...