The Approaching FuryHarper Collins, 23 июн. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 100 Book description to come. |
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... and was soon admitted to the Virginia bar . I was then only twenty years of age , a tall , slender , loose - jointed lad with prematurely white hair , glittering gray eyes , and a practiced smile . My mouth STORM WARNINGS 13.
... and was soon admitted to the Virginia bar . I was then only twenty years of age , a tall , slender , loose - jointed lad with prematurely white hair , glittering gray eyes , and a practiced smile . My mouth STORM WARNINGS 13.
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Stephen B. Oates. gray eyes , and a practiced smile . My mouth , however , was so wide and thin that I could never learn to spit . Already , I admit , I had a fondness for bourbon , cards , snuff , and good - looking women . In 1797 ...
Stephen B. Oates. gray eyes , and a practiced smile . My mouth , however , was so wide and thin that I could never learn to spit . Already , I admit , I had a fondness for bourbon , cards , snuff , and good - looking women . In 1797 ...
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... eye fell again and again on Scriptural injunctions against human slavery , on Exodus 21:16 : " And he that stealeth a man , and selleth him , or if he be found in his hand , he shall surely be put to death . " And Deuteronomy 24 : 7 ...
... eye fell again and again on Scriptural injunctions against human slavery , on Exodus 21:16 : " And he that stealeth a man , and selleth him , or if he be found in his hand , he shall surely be put to death . " And Deuteronomy 24 : 7 ...
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... eyes having a sinister expression . I wanted to put such fear in their hearts that they and all the other white people would never forget what we had done , would never be free of the fear that somewhere , in some slave quarter ...
... eyes having a sinister expression . I wanted to put such fear in their hearts that they and all the other white people would never forget what we had done , would never be free of the fear that somewhere , in some slave quarter ...
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... eyes . Oh , those eyes ! I could not get them out of my mind . With my first letter , we began a tentative courtship , car- ried on mostly by mail . Finally I wrote her : " Neither years nor the conflicts of life have indurated my heart ...
... eyes . Oh , those eyes ! I could not get them out of my mind . With my first letter , we began a tentative courtship , car- ried on mostly by mail . Finally I wrote her : " Neither years nor the conflicts of life have indurated my heart ...
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Стр. 227 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Стр. 430 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Стр. 230 - Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under .the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now ? — now — when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered...
Стр. 342 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit. and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Стр. 163 - Americans, South as well as North, shall we make no effort to arrest this? Already the liberal party throughout the world express the apprehension " that the one retrograde institution in America is undermining the principles of progress, and fatally violating the noblest political system the world ever saw.
Стр. 200 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Стр. 243 - I have only to say, let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man — this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position — discarding our standard that we have left us.
Стр. 255 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?