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Strona 79 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile : let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Strona 62 - That all freemen of the age of twenty-one years, who have been inhabitants of any one county within...
Strona 21 - Angels, assist our mighty joys ; Strike all your harps of gold ; But when you raise your highest notes, His love can ne'er be told.
Strona 17 - Sometime, when all life's lessons have been learned, And sun and stars forevermore have set, The things which our weak judgments here have spurned, The things o'er which we grieved with lashes wet, Will flash before us, out of life's dark night, As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue ; And we shall see how all God's plans were right, And how what seemed reproof was love most true.
Strona 51 - We are content and do grant, that the inhabitants of the said county do hold their lands of us, the lords proprietors, upon the same terms and conditions that the inhabitants of Virginia hold theirs...
Strona 43 - Let us labor as the heart and soul of one man to establish Sunday schools in or near the place of public worship. Let persons be appointed by the bishops, elders, deacons, or preachers to teach gratis all that will attend and have a capacity to learn, from six o'clock in the morning till ten, and from two o'clock in the afternoon till six, where it does not interfere with public worship. The council shall compile a proper school-book to teach them learning and piety.
Strona 5 - The misfortune is general, and in many cases is severely felt. The scarcity of money has become so great, and the difficulty of paying debts has become so common, that riots and combinations have been formed in many places, and the operations of civil government have been suspended.
Strona 23 - But if the relation of slavery required "that the slave shall be disrobed of the essential features that distinguish him from the brute, the relation must adapt itself to the consequences and leave its subjects the instinctive privileges of a brute. I am arguing no question of abstract right, but am endeavoring to prove that the natural incidents of slavery must be borne with because they are inherent to the condition itself ; and that any attempt to punish the slave for the exercise of a right which...
Strona 25 - I, [name] before the great immaculate Judge of heaven and earth, and upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, do, of my own free will and accord, subscribe to the following sacred, binding obligation : I. I am on the side of justice and humanity and constitutional liberty, as bequeathed to us by our forefathers in its original purity.
Strona 47 - Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.