Lame Jervas. The will. The Limerick gloves. Out of debt out of danger. The lottery. Rosanna. Murad the unlucky. The manufacturers. The contrast. The grateful Negro. To-morrowWhittaker, 1848 |
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396. oldal - Your golden wings, now hov'ring o'er him, shed Protection ; now, are waving in applause To that blest son of foresight ! lord of fate ! That awful independent on To-morrow ! Whose work is done; who triumphs in the Past; Whose Yesterdays look backwards with a smile...
440. oldal - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month.
396. oldal - Full power'd to cancel, expiate, raise, adorn, And reinstate us on the rock of peace. Let it not share its predecessor's fate ; Nor, like its elder sisters, die a fool.
375. oldal - What, if nobody would buy them! You know that you cannot smuggle slaves into England. The instant a slave touches Eng-lish ground, he becomes free. Glorious privilege! Why should it not be extended to all her dominions ? If the future impor-tation of slaves into these islands were forbidden by law, the trade must cease. No man can either sell or possess slaves, without its being known: they cannot be smuggled, like lace or brandy.
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387. oldal - The lady, roused from her natural indolence by this disappointment to her vanity, instantly ordered that the unfortunate female slave should be severely chastised. The woman was the wife of Hector ; and this fresh injury worked up his temper, naturally vindictive, to the highest point. He ardently longed for the moment when he might satiate his vengeance. The plan the negroes had laid was to set fire to the canes, at one and the same time, on every plantation ; and when the white inhabitants of the...
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382. oldal - you once loved me: I have done nothing, have I, to forfeit your confidence ? ' ' I once loved you ! ' said she, raising her languid eyes, and looking at him with reproachful tenderness ; ' and can you doubt my constancy ? Oh, Caesar, you little know what is passing in my heart ! You are the cause of my melancholy...