Border-land in SymbolsVancouver Columbian, 1913 - 129 pages |
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... night wondering what new form of torture we can devise that will cause the wrongdoer to cease his wrong doing . The people of the State of South Carolina had it adopted in her constitution that no di- vorces shall be granted under any ...
... night wondering what new form of torture we can devise that will cause the wrongdoer to cease his wrong doing . The people of the State of South Carolina had it adopted in her constitution that no di- vorces shall be granted under any ...
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... night he went in search of a place to sleep . He wandered along the bank of the river , found a shed and pushed in the door and made a bed on some grain sacks . In the morn- ing the freight men found an intruder in the grain shed and ...
... night he went in search of a place to sleep . He wandered along the bank of the river , found a shed and pushed in the door and made a bed on some grain sacks . In the morn- ing the freight men found an intruder in the grain shed and ...
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... night the friends of the negroes would go with them , traveling all night taking the slaves to their destination to cross over into Canada to be free . When the Dread Scott decision came it was the last straw that broke the camel's back ...
... night the friends of the negroes would go with them , traveling all night taking the slaves to their destination to cross over into Canada to be free . When the Dread Scott decision came it was the last straw that broke the camel's back ...
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... night , while in a darkened room , she saw a face and ever after that she fears the dark . Pos- sibly if she could be made to understand from whence came the form of the face she would fear the dark less than the light . The ma jority ...
... night , while in a darkened room , she saw a face and ever after that she fears the dark . Pos- sibly if she could be made to understand from whence came the form of the face she would fear the dark less than the light . The ma jority ...
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... night . In " Unity of Good , " page 28 , Mrs. Eddy de- plores the idea of there being a spiritual con- sciousness . She says : " Who then , dares de- fine the soul as something within man ? As well might you declare some old castle to ...
... night . In " Unity of Good , " page 28 , Mrs. Eddy de- plores the idea of there being a spiritual con- sciousness . She says : " Who then , dares de- fine the soul as something within man ? As well might you declare some old castle to ...
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Page 55 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
Page 32 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 32 - 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.
Page 56 - And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And behold, there came a voice unto him, and said. What doest thou here, Elijah?
Page 56 - And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake In pieces the rocks before the Lord : but the Lord was not in the wind : and after the wind an earthquake ; but the Lord was not in the earthquake : " And after the earthquake a .fire : but the Lord was not in the fire : and after the fire a still small voice.
Page 73 - And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only selfsufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul.
Page 32 - We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their state free, and we shall awake to the reality instead that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave state.
Page 34 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 7 - Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Page 117 - Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin ; and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.