... William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: The Story of His Life, Količina 1

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Century Company, 1885
 

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Stran 270 - which, if it be separated, cannot be missed. My own faith is strong — my vision, clear — my consolation, great. ' Who art thou, 0 great mountain ? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.'
Stran 375 - blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble." I am more and more impressed with the importance of " working whilst the day lasts.
Stran 372 - the wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Stran 127 - [America /], the altar and the god sink together in the dust; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains, that burst from around him. and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible
Stran 195 - Tell me not of rights—talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves. I deny the right — / acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature rise in rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it.
Stran 127 - matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down;—no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery: the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain
Stran 393 - We also maintain that there are, at the present time, the highest obligations resting upon the people of the free States to remove slavery by moral and political action, as prescribed in the Constitution of the United States. They are now living under a pledge of their tremendous physical force, to fasten the
Stran 339 - Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul: The mind's the standard of the man.
Stran 195 - acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature rise in rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it.
Stran 391 - the destruction of error by the potency of truth—the overthrow of prejudice by the power of love — and the abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance. Their grievances, great as they were, were trifling in comparison with the wrongs and sufferings of those for whom we plead. Our fathers were never

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