The Negro at Home: An Inquiry After His Capacity for Self-government and the Government of Whites for Controlling, Leading, Directing, Or Co-operating In; the Civilization of the Age; Its Material, Intellectual, Moral, Religious, Social and Political Interests; the Objects of Society and Government, the Business and Duties of Our Race; the Offenses of LegislationThe author, 1868 - 237 頁 |
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第 178 頁 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe...
第 112 頁 - That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on't? Live you, or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
第 91 頁 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
第 88 頁 - Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself...
第 58 頁 - The day broke beautifully clear, and having crossed a deep valley between the hills, we toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath the grand expanse of water,—a boundless sea horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in the noon-day sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles...
第 88 頁 - Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful...
第 174 頁 - A combination and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
第 21 頁 - To be another, in this general frame; Just as absurd, to mourn the tasks or pains The great Directing Mind of all ordains.
第 98 頁 - When the natives turn their eyes to the future world, they have a view, cheerless enough, of their own utter helplessness and hopelessness. They fancy themselves completely in the power of the disembodied spirits, and look upon the prospect of following them as the greatest of misfortunes. Hence they are constantly deprecating the wrath of departed souls, believing that, if they are appeased, there is no other cause of death but witchcraft, which may be averted by charms.
第 85 頁 - That circumstances having thrown us in the way of his subjects, by the laws and usages of the country he was not only entitled to our own persons, but had equal...