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... terms of my father's will . Neither she nor my father ever sold one . Brought up as I was with the institution , I never questioned the right or the wrong of slavery until the incident of which I am about to speak , occurred . I saw a ...
... terms of my father's will . Neither she nor my father ever sold one . Brought up as I was with the institution , I never questioned the right or the wrong of slavery until the incident of which I am about to speak , occurred . I saw a ...
Page 45
... County was always proud of him and justly claimed him as the greatest man the county ever produced . The terms of his apprenticeship were that Brown- ing should furnish board and lodging and cloth- ing and Education 45.
... County was always proud of him and justly claimed him as the greatest man the county ever produced . The terms of his apprenticeship were that Brown- ing should furnish board and lodging and cloth- ing and Education 45.
Page 46
... term of the Circuit Court . One evening during the week he went out to " Billy Browning's , " to visit with the family of his former master and to stay over night at the place that had been his home during the time of his apprenticeship ...
... term of the Circuit Court . One evening during the week he went out to " Billy Browning's , " to visit with the family of his former master and to stay over night at the place that had been his home during the time of his apprenticeship ...
Page 52
... term was for three months at a salary of twenty dollars per month . At the expiration of the term I was employed at a salary of forty dollars to teach a district school in Warren County . In that and the adjoining district I taught for ...
... term was for three months at a salary of twenty dollars per month . At the expiration of the term I was employed at a salary of forty dollars to teach a district school in Warren County . In that and the adjoining district I taught for ...
Page 59
... terms each year and each term lasted for two or three weeks . When the courts , Circuit , Probate , and County were not in session , the little town was quiet indeed . Now and then I would appear before a Justice of the Peace and try a ...
... terms each year and each term lasted for two or three weeks . When the courts , Circuit , Probate , and County were not in session , the little town was quiet indeed . Now and then I would appear before a Justice of the Peace and try a ...
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Page 38 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him...
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Page 38 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Page 323 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 319 - It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its claims.
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Page 319 - It is a contradiction in terms, it is blasphemy in religion, it is wickedness in politics, to say that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included. For what else does a magistrate exist ? To suppose for power is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice, to which we are all subject.
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