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... live under a king , or in a republic ; whether they prefer hereditary or elective rulers ; whether elections be for a long or a short period ; whether the legislative , executive and judiciary branches , be in separate hands , or all ...
... live under a king , or in a republic ; whether they prefer hereditary or elective rulers ; whether elections be for a long or a short period ; whether the legislative , executive and judiciary branches , be in separate hands , or all ...
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... live better , are less pressed with labour , and have more information than in other parts of the country . Of those sold to the south there is a pretty large proportion of the most intelligent - those pos- sessed of the highest notions ...
... live better , are less pressed with labour , and have more information than in other parts of the country . Of those sold to the south there is a pretty large proportion of the most intelligent - those pos- sessed of the highest notions ...
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... live to repeat its details to their children , and tell them how the whites became a free and indepen- dent people . Take coloured persons of plain common sense , and I suppose that nineteen out of twenty , perhaps ninety - nine out of ...
... live to repeat its details to their children , and tell them how the whites became a free and indepen- dent people . Take coloured persons of plain common sense , and I suppose that nineteen out of twenty , perhaps ninety - nine out of ...
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... live and die in single blessedness , who but for slavery , would have been blessed much more to their liking . Slavery has made it so expensive to main- tain a family , that the men who would have mated with them , feared to marry , or ...
... live and die in single blessedness , who but for slavery , would have been blessed much more to their liking . Slavery has made it so expensive to main- tain a family , that the men who would have mated with them , feared to marry , or ...
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... lives lost by the wars and plundering to obtain slaves , far exceeded , it is supposed , the number sold into slavery . The avidity of the trader for slaves - the fact that few , if any , of the slaves ever returned to relate what was ...
... lives lost by the wars and plundering to obtain slaves , far exceeded , it is supposed , the number sold into slavery . The avidity of the trader for slaves - the fact that few , if any , of the slaves ever returned to relate what was ...
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Page 53 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 74 - Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.
Page 69 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Page 99 - And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows...
Page 73 - For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward...
Page 106 - Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Page 75 - If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Page 112 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of My 'wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
Page 69 - We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Page 111 - Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah ; and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, he is the God which is in Jerusalem.