The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1904 |
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... SLAVE LAW --- ADDRESS AT CONCORD 97 149 177 VII . THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW LECTURE AT NEW YORK 215 VIII . THE ASSAULT UPON MR . SUMNER 245 IX . SPEECH ON AFFAIRS IN KANSAS 253 X. JOHN BROWN SPEECH AT - BOSTON 265 XI . JOHN BROWN SPEECH AT ...
... SLAVE LAW --- ADDRESS AT CONCORD 97 149 177 VII . THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW LECTURE AT NEW YORK 215 VIII . THE ASSAULT UPON MR . SUMNER 245 IX . SPEECH ON AFFAIRS IN KANSAS 253 X. JOHN BROWN SPEECH AT - BOSTON 265 XI . JOHN BROWN SPEECH AT ...
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... slave . The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right , in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature . From the earliest monuments it appears that one ...
... slave . The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right , in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature . From the earliest monuments it appears that one ...
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... slavery has been . These men , our benefactors , as they are pro- ducers of corn and wine , of coffee , of tobacco ... slave - ship to begin with , in whose - filthy hold he sat in irons , unable to lie 102 WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION.
... slavery has been . These men , our benefactors , as they are pro- ducers of corn and wine , of coffee , of tobacco ... slave - ship to begin with , in whose - filthy hold he sat in irons , unable to lie 102 WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION.
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... slavery it runs cold in the veins : the stom- ach rises with disgust , and curses slavery . Well , so it happened ; a good man or woman , a coun- try boy or girl , it would so fall out , — once in a while saw these injuries and had the ...
... slavery it runs cold in the veins : the stom- ach rises with disgust , and curses slavery . Well , so it happened ; a good man or woman , a coun- try boy or girl , it would so fall out , — once in a while saw these injuries and had the ...
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... slave - traders and slave - owners could not be overstated . The more it was searched , the more shocking anec- dotes came up , things not to be spoken . Hu- mane persons who were informed of the reports insisted on proving them ...
... slave - traders and slave - owners could not be overstated . The more it was searched , the more shocking anec- dotes came up , things not to be spoken . Hu- mane persons who were informed of the reports insisted on proving them ...
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Page 613 - Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Page 314 - Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
Page 1 - I LIKE a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. Why should the vest on him allure, Which I could not on me endure? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible...
Page 215 - Of all we loved and honored, naught Save power remains, — A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone : from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!
Page 328 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Page 396 - Boston Hymn READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY I, 1863 The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 2 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.
Page 216 - Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us. Burns, Shelley, were with us— they watch from their graves! He alone breaks from the van and the freemen. He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves! We shall march prospering, — not thro...
Page 590 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Page 600 - I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons.