Short Biographical Sketches of Eminent Negro Men and Women in Europe and the United States: With Brief Extracts from Their Writings and Public UtterancesGazette Press, 1910 - 103 páginas |
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... to seize his guest as an act of duty to the Republic ; the other was a noble and indignant refusal . " What , " said Toussaint in his letter to the per- fidious Frenchman , " have I not passed my word to the British General ? How then ...
... to seize his guest as an act of duty to the Republic ; the other was a noble and indignant refusal . " What , " said Toussaint in his letter to the per- fidious Frenchman , " have I not passed my word to the British General ? How then ...
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Acua admiration African Allegheny City appointed atonement attend Avery College Banneker bard Benjamin Banneker Benjamin Tucker Benoit Bishop born Boston British brought Brown called Capitien Church Colored Race Congress convention Crispus Attucks delivered District of Columbia Domingo editor elected England English fame father Frederick Douglass freedom French friends give Henry Ossawa Tanner honor insects John JOHN EDWARD BRUCE knowledge known labor land Laney language Latin learned lecture letter liberty literary living London master ment mind mother Negro North Star papers Philip Aklis Hubert Phillis Wheatley Pittsburg poems Poushkin President Prince published Questions received Republican return to America sent Shango slave slavery soldiers Solomon Bailey Solomon G South thee thou tion Toussaint Toussaint L'Ouverture TUCKER TANNER twas United United Christian Church Virginia Washington write young
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Página 52 - TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy Man of Men ! Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough Within thy hearing, or thy head be now Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless den ;— O miserable Chieftain ! where and when Wilt thou find patience ? Yet die not ; do thou Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow : Though fallen Thyself, never to rise again, Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee ; air, earth, and skies ; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will...
Página 35 - ... as clerks, merchants, and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hillside, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives, and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian's God, and looking hopefully...
Página 52 - L'OUVERTURE Toussaint, the most unhappy man of men! Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough Within thy hearing, or thy head be now Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless den; — O miserable Chieftain! where and when Wilt thou find patience? Yet die not; do thou Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow: Though fallen thyself, never to rise again, Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That...
Página 6 - ... no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography, since none can be more delightful or more useful, none can more certainly enchain the heart by irresistible interest, or more widely diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition.
Página 72 - Your favor of the 26th of October did not reach my hands till the middle of December. Time enough, you will say, to have given an answer ere this. Granted. But a variety of important occurrences, continually interposing to distract the mind and withdraw the attention, I hope will apologize for the delay, and plead my excuse for the seeming, but not real neglect. I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me in the elegant lines you enclosed; and however undeserving I may be of such encomium...
Página 73 - If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters, I shall be happy to see a person so favored by the Muses, and to whom nature has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations. I am, with great respect, your obedient, humble servant, GEORGE WASHINGTON^ 1 Sparks's Washington, vol.
Página 17 - This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.
Página 72 - I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me in the elegant lines you enclosed; and however undeserving I may be of such encomium and panegyric, the style and manner exhibit a striking proof of your poetical talents...
Página 100 - Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?
Página 21 - Instruments, but without accompanying them with either hint or instruction, that might further his studies, or lead him to apply them to any useful result. These books and instruments, the first of the kind he had ever seen, opened a new world to Benjamin, and from thenceforward he employed his leisure in Astronomical Researches.