The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 11-12Wm. H. Wise, 1911 - 416 pages |
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Page 38
... American forest . The landscape before them was fair , if it was strange and rude . The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms , might at- tract even eyes as stern as theirs with its ...
... American forest . The landscape before them was fair , if it was strange and rude . The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms , might at- tract even eyes as stern as theirs with its ...
Page 69
... America , for the sole purpose of raising a revenue from hence ; to render the design abortive , we will not , in this town , either by our selves , or any from or under us , buy , sell , or us of the East India Company's tea , or any ...
... America , for the sole purpose of raising a revenue from hence ; to render the design abortive , we will not , in this town , either by our selves , or any from or under us , buy , sell , or us of the East India Company's tea , or any ...
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... American people , and so vast an outrage upon the Cherokee Nation and upon human nature shall be consummated . One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your attention my conviction that the government ...
... American people , and so vast an outrage upon the Cherokee Nation and upon human nature shall be consummated . One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your attention my conviction that the government ...
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... American Quakers . John Woolman of New Jersey , whilst yet an apprentice , was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro , for his master . He gave his testimony against the traffic , in Maryland and Virginia ...
... American Quakers . John Woolman of New Jersey , whilst yet an apprentice , was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro , for his master . He gave his testimony against the traffic , in Maryland and Virginia ...
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... American government by the Colonization So- ciety , 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa . Nearly 30,000 were landed in the port of Ha- vana alone . In consequence of the dangers of the trade growing out of the act of abolition ...
... American government by the Colonization So- ciety , 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa . Nearly 30,000 were landed in the port of Ha- vana alone . In consequence of the dangers of the trade growing out of the act of abolition ...
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