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Page 126
... cloth spreading over the front of the gallery in one seat , and next to it a brown , and next again a green . A stranger from a colder clime has the eye drawn to the amazing number of fans sticking between the cushions and the back of ...
... cloth spreading over the front of the gallery in one seat , and next to it a brown , and next again a green . A stranger from a colder clime has the eye drawn to the amazing number of fans sticking between the cushions and the back of ...
Page 149
... clothes be rent on a corner or your foot wounded by a nail ; not to mention tinctures of tar or sugary matter , which may be more easily con- tracted than shunned in the lower and more business parts of the city . It must be on the give ...
... clothes be rent on a corner or your foot wounded by a nail ; not to mention tinctures of tar or sugary matter , which may be more easily con- tracted than shunned in the lower and more business parts of the city . It must be on the give ...
Page 195
... in debt rather than not adopt sable decencies , or they will abstain from public worship for months rather than attend on it in coloured clothes . But polished shining coffins ! a showroom of them , as smart THE FUNERALS . 195.
... in debt rather than not adopt sable decencies , or they will abstain from public worship for months rather than attend on it in coloured clothes . But polished shining coffins ! a showroom of them , as smart THE FUNERALS . 195.
Page 204
... accuse England of the cruelties perpetrated in Man- chester on the manufacturers of cotton cloth , as being worse than those inflicted on negroes who raise the raw material . They hardly believe when told 204 THE FUNERALS .
... accuse England of the cruelties perpetrated in Man- chester on the manufacturers of cotton cloth , as being worse than those inflicted on negroes who raise the raw material . They hardly believe when told 204 THE FUNERALS .
Page 216
... clothing , leaned over the rail , looking down upon the water . Suddenly a dirty , ragged , vulgar fellow , perhaps jealous that a black man should look so much more respectable than himself , came up and tried to fasten 216 THE ...
... clothing , leaned over the rail , looking down upon the water . Suddenly a dirty , ragged , vulgar fellow , perhaps jealous that a black man should look so much more respectable than himself , came up and tried to fasten 216 THE ...
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Page 118 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his trouble;" but this ought to be, and might be, the experience of every praying heart, were it not for lurking unbelief. In some of our Scottish prayer-meetings, I have felt a degree of distraction of purpose, and want of
Page 79 - orphans, in their Asylum at New York— " Uncle Sam * is rich enough To give us all a farm." The facility with which enough, and more than enough, is found to satisfy every hungry mouth on a farm, gives wonderful scope to the benevolent sentiment. Compassion needs but to well up at its
Page 147 - shining hair ; She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth, She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth; Her place is now by another's side— Bring flowers for the locks of the fair young bride!" Then was wheeled in a table with the mighty cake, which is as much a " chieftain" at an American as at a British wedding. From it the groomsmen procured their
Page 318 - Thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him;" or, " That thou bear no sin for him." Let us turn from this desolate landscape, and gladly survey a new scene which begins to open