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... Mother ? .... The Child's Evening Hymn .. The enfranchised Slaves to their Benefactress . ' Summer Morning ... Mother's Farewell . 122 78 My Cottage Home .... 123 124 125 79 The Conscript's Farewell .... 127 80 The Woods Wanderer . 80 ...
... Mother ? .... The Child's Evening Hymn .. The enfranchised Slaves to their Benefactress . ' Summer Morning ... Mother's Farewell . 122 78 My Cottage Home .... 123 124 125 79 The Conscript's Farewell .... 127 80 The Woods Wanderer . 80 ...
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... . 146 True Friendship . 172 147 A Sketch .. 172 ... 148 To the Ladies ' Free Produce 149 Society 153 To Prudence Crandall . 154 Woman ... 175 176 177 155 The Indian Mother to her Son 179 158 The Indian Camp ..... 180 6 CONTENTS .
... . 146 True Friendship . 172 147 A Sketch .. 172 ... 148 To the Ladies ' Free Produce 149 Society 153 To Prudence Crandall . 154 Woman ... 175 176 177 155 The Indian Mother to her Son 179 158 The Indian Camp ..... 180 6 CONTENTS .
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... mother was Margaret Evans , who was born at the city of Burlington , in the State of New - Jersey . Both the Chandler and Evans families were of English origin , their ancestors having migrated to this country at an early period of its ...
... mother was Margaret Evans , who was born at the city of Burlington , in the State of New - Jersey . Both the Chandler and Evans families were of English origin , their ancestors having migrated to this country at an early period of its ...
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... mother . She was now left an orphan , with her two elder brothers , to buffet the cheerless frowns of a troublesome world , without the aid of parental advice or protection . She was still of too tender an age fully to estimate the ...
... mother . She was now left an orphan , with her two elder brothers , to buffet the cheerless frowns of a troublesome world , without the aid of parental advice or protection . She was still of too tender an age fully to estimate the ...
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... mother , she experienced the kind attention and wholesome ad- monitions of her three aunts , Ruth , Jane , and Amelia Evans , the sisters of her deceased mother . But all their efforts to guard her against the temptations and ...
... mother , she experienced the kind attention and wholesome ad- monitions of her three aunts , Ruth , Jane , and Amelia Evans , the sisters of her deceased mother . But all their efforts to guard her against the temptations and ...
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agony amid Angel of Grief anguish beautiful behold bending beneath bitter blessing bliss blood bosom breast breath bright brow calm Cardinal Ximenes cheek Christian clouds dark dear Isabel death deep dreams dukedom of Northumberland duty earth ELIZABETH MARGARET CHANDLER evil exertions face father fearful feel female fetters flowers forever gathered band gaze gentle grave grief guilt gush hand happiness hath heart heaven holy hope hour human JOHN WOOLMAN labour lady land lift light lips look luxuries midst mind mingled misery mother nature neath negro never o'er once oppression ourselves philanthropy Pope Leo X prayer racter round scenes selfishness silent slave sleep slumber smile sorrow soul spirit suffering sweet system of slavery tears tell thee thine things thou thought toil torn trafficker in human voice weary weep WIFE'S LAMENT wild woman wrong
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Page 35 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 69 - Or have we to reproach ourselves, that "we have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and have done those things which we ought not to have done?
Page 72 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Page 29 - A deathless thing ! They know not what they do, Nor what they deal with. Man perchance may bind The flower his step hath bruised ; or light anew' The torch he quenches ; or to music wind Again the lyre-string from his touch that flew; — But for the soul ! — oh ! tremble, and beware To lay rude hands upon God's mysteries there...
Page 22 - Lucy had (and it was a consolation) clung to the belief that, despite of appearances and his own confession, his past life had not been such as to place him without the pale...
Page 79 - All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye unto them : and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Page 13 - More mortal than the common births of Fate. Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root; each moment plays His little weapon in the narrower sphere Of sweet domestic comfort, and cuts down The fairest bloom of sublunary bliss.
Page 50 - She laid her hand upon her heart ; her eye flash'd proud and clear, And firmer grew her haughty tread — " My lord is hidden here ! " And if ye seek to view his form, ye first must tear away, From round his secret...
Page 59 - See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ; The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 36 - THINK of our country's glory, All dimm'd with Afric's tears— Her broad flag stained and gory, With the hoarded guilt of years. Think of the frantic mother, Lamenting for her child, Till falling lashes smother Her cries of anguish wild!