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... servant more and more callous . Whipping and abuse are like laudanum ; you have to double the dose as the sensi- bilities decline . I saw this very early when I became an owner ; and I resolved never to begin , because I did not know ...
... servant more and more callous . Whipping and abuse are like laudanum ; you have to double the dose as the sensi- bilities decline . I saw this very early when I became an owner ; and I resolved never to begin , because I did not know ...
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... servants act like spoiled children ; but I think that better than for us both to be brutalised together . You have talked a great deal about our responsibilities in educating , cousin . I really wanted you to try with one child , who is ...
... servants act like spoiled children ; but I think that better than for us both to be brutalised together . You have talked a great deal about our responsibilities in educating , cousin . I really wanted you to try with one child , who is ...
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... servants : they soon found reason to alter their opinion . It was very soon discovered that whoever cast an indignity on Topsy was sure to meet with some inconvenient accident shortly after either a Uncle Tom's Cabin . II . - 2 pair of ...
... servants : they soon found reason to alter their opinion . It was very soon discovered that whoever cast an indignity on Topsy was sure to meet with some inconvenient accident shortly after either a Uncle Tom's Cabin . II . - 2 pair of ...
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... servants to read ? " " What a question , child ! People never do . " " Why don't they ? " said Eva . " Because it is no use for them to read . It don't help them to work any better , and they are not made for anything else . " " But ...
... servants to read ? " " What a question , child ! People never do . " " Why don't they ? " said Eva . " Because it is no use for them to read . It don't help them to work any better , and they are not made for anything else . " " But ...
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... servants , for a specimen , ” said Alfred , with a half - scornful smile . " You might as well set Mount Etna on them flat , and tell them to stand up under it , as tell me to elevate my servants under all the superincumbent mass of ...
... servants , for a specimen , ” said Alfred , with a half - scornful smile . " You might as well set Mount Etna on them flat , and tell them to stand up under it , as tell me to elevate my servants under all the superincumbent mass of ...
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Page 303 - And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 96 - 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.
Page 56 - Weep not for those whom the veil of the tomb, In life's happy morning, hath hid from our eyes, Ere sin threw a blight o'er the spirit's young bloom, Or earth had profaned what was born for the skies.
Page 96 - 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 219 - Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall ; May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all ; — 4.
Page 96 - 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 202 - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Page 133 - Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity...
Page 182 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.