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... mistresses to instruct him , and improve his genius . 3. But when grown , being subject to like passions with other young men , he was led into difficulty ; and the Duke , his friend , being dead , he was at a loss what to do ; but the ...
... mistresses to instruct him , and improve his genius . 3. But when grown , being subject to like passions with other young men , he was led into difficulty ; and the Duke , his friend , being dead , he was at a loss what to do ; but the ...
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... mistress married , and brought our family out of the State of Virginia into the State of Dela- ware ; but by their removing back to Virginia , we were entitled to our freedom , and attempting to recover it by law , we were sold and ...
... mistress married , and brought our family out of the State of Virginia into the State of Dela- ware ; but by their removing back to Virginia , we were entitled to our freedom , and attempting to recover it by law , we were sold and ...
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... mistress gave her a little book , concerning some pious young people that lived happily , and died happily , and were gone to heaven , namely : - 27. " Young Samuel , that little child , Who serv'd the Lord , liv'd undefil'd ,, Like ...
... mistress gave her a little book , concerning some pious young people that lived happily , and died happily , and were gone to heaven , namely : - 27. " Young Samuel , that little child , Who serv'd the Lord , liv'd undefil'd ,, Like ...
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... mistress whether she had understood right , that all must die ? the reply was ,. " Go to your work . " She continued thus exercised for a considerable time , earnestly desiring to know what she had to do , but had no one to give her ...
... mistress whether she had understood right , that all must die ? the reply was ,. " Go to your work . " She continued thus exercised for a considerable time , earnestly desiring to know what she had to do , but had no one to give her ...
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... me here . I was then so little , that I slept sometimes at my mistress ' feet . I think there was only one house . for worship . in the city then ; and I remember . very 1 well that up Broadway there were only few small houses 70`
... me here . I was then so little , that I slept sometimes at my mistress ' feet . I think there was only one house . for worship . in the city then ; and I remember . very 1 well that up Broadway there were only few small houses 70`
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Page 68 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Page 57 - Be ye angry, and sin not : let not the sun go down upon your wrath : neither give place to the devil.
Page 50 - I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there ye may be also.
Page 197 - That the senators and representatives of this state, in the Congress of the United States...
Page 123 - Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying, "Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
Page 156 - The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress, my worthy benefactress — pointing to the mat, and telling me I might sleep there without apprehension — called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton, in which they continued to employ themselves great part of the night.
Page 46 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty ; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Page 41 - Blessing, honour, glory, and power be unto him, that sitteth on the throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever.
Page 11 - To the Publick" that prefaces Phillis Wheatley's book and that reads in part: We whose Names are under-written, do assure the World, that the Poems specified in the following Page, were (as we verily believe) written by Phillis, a young Negro Girl, who was but a few Years since, brought an uncultivated Barbarian from Africa, and has ever since been, and now is, under the Disadvantage of serving as a Slave in a Family in this Town. She has been examined by some of the best Judges, and is thought qualified...
Page 136 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.