Life at the South, Or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as it is: Being Narratives, Scenes, and Incidents in the Real "life of the Lowly"Geo. H. Derby and Company, 1852 - 519 pages |
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Page 119 - GOOD NIGHT. GOOD night? ah! no; the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite; Let us remain together still, Then it will be good night. How can I call the lone night good, Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight ? Be it not said, thought, understood, Then it will be good night.
Page 11 - The dividends tax, it may be said, is good so far as it goes; but it does not go far enough. It is indeed true that some of the objections are slight.
Page 415 - ... places at table, too much heated and fatigued, however, to enjoy the luxuries set before us. Our Boston friends left that afternoon, but we tarried until two o'clock the next morning, when we departed on the Burlington for Whitehall. The air was cool and the sky unclouded when we left Ticonderoga. The moon had gone down, and it was too dark to see more than the outlines of the romantic shores by which we were gliding, so we took seats upon the upper deck and surveyed the clear heavens, jeweled...
Page 198 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Page 45 - I know wha' kind of ting freedom is-wid black man ? Ha ! you make Hector free, 'come wuss more nor poor buckrah ; he tief out of de shop — he get drunk and lie in de ditch; den, if sick come, he roll, he toss in de wet grass of de stable; you come in de morning — Hector dead ! and who know — he take no physic, he hab no parson — who know, I say, massa, but de debbil find um 'fore any body else? No, massa, you berry good company for Hector; I tank God he so good ! I no want any better.
Page 10 - ... to the amelioration of all conditions, and the enlightenment of all classes of society. And although the lot of the slave may be regarded as the lowest in the scale, still, the candid-minded in every section of our country, indulge the hope, that the day will yet come when the descendants of Ham will be gathered together in the land of their -ancestors, and Liberia, in God's own good time, take its position among the independent states of the world.
Page 252 - O Lord ! if thou shouldst mark iniquity, who could stand? Enable us, therefore, to confess our manifold sins with unreserved sorrow and shame ; to own that they are more in number than the hairs of our head...
Page 44 - Why can't you, Hector ? What do you mean ? Am I not your master? Can't I make you free, and do n't I tell you that I do make you free ? I see how it is ! You don't like to part with Philisee; well, take her with you. From this moment you are your owu master, and she is her own mistress." "Wha
Page 45 - Tis onpossible, maussa, and dere's no use for talk 'bout it. De ting aint right; and enty I know wha' kind of ting freedom is wid black man?
Page 250 - Is not the world of nature thine, The darkness and the day? Didst thou not bid the morning shine, And mark the sun his way?