The Planter: Or, Thirteen Years in the South, by a Northern ManH. Hooker, 1853 - 275 sider |
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Side 260 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Side 176 - Knowing the heart of Man is set to be The centre of this World, about the which Those revolutions of disturbances Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is Man...
Side 48 - Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him ? 1 St.
Side 163 - Do you know how they make it? Just as a man makes laws for his dog. When your dog does anything you want to break him of, you wait till he does it, and then beat him for it. This is the way you make laws for your dog: and this is the way the Judges make laws for you and me.
Side 46 - ... on the rights and requirements of the nineteenth century ; but we appeal to you very seriously to reflect and to ask counsel of God how far such a state of things is in accordance with His Holy Word, the inalienable rights of immortal souls, and the pure and merciful spirit of the Christian religion.
Side 246 - Torture the pages of the hallowed Bible, To sanction crime, and robbery, and blood ? And, in Oppression's hateful service, libel Both man and God...
Side 137 - Spanish crown; and it must be evident that if the negro population of Cuba were rendered free, that fact would create a most powerful element of resistance to any scheme for annexing Cuba to the United States, where slavery still exists.
Side 271 - I ; He in velvet, I in fustian, richer man am I. Cleon is a slave to grandeur, free as thought am I ; Cleon fees a score of doctors, need of none have I ; Wealth-surrounded, care-environed, Cleon fears to die ; Death may come, he '11 find me ready, — happier man am I.
Side 163 - What way, then, has any man of coming at this dog-law? Only by watching their proceedings: by observing in what cases they have hanged a man, in what cases they have sent him to jail, in what cases they have seized his goods, and so forth. These proceedings they won't publish themselves; and if any body else publishes them, it is what they call a contempt of court, and a man may be sent to jail for it...
Side 163 - This is the way you make laws for your dog: and this is the way the judges make law for you and me. They won't tell a man beforehand what it is he should not do — they won't so much as allow of his being told: they lie by till he has done something which they say he should not have done, and then they hang him for it. What way, then, has any man of coming at this dog-law? Only by watching their proceedings: by observing in what cases they have hanged a man, in what cases they have sent him to jail,...