Jasper Douthit's Story: The Autobiography of a PioneerAmerican Unitarian association, 1909 - 225 sidor |
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... gather in their cabins on Sunday and of nights , to hear me read the Bible to them . Then seemed to come to me my first call to preach . I saw slaves for slightest offenses cruelly beaten by drunken [ 11 ] JASPER DOUTHIT'S STORY.
... gather in their cabins on Sunday and of nights , to hear me read the Bible to them . Then seemed to come to me my first call to preach . I saw slaves for slightest offenses cruelly beaten by drunken [ 11 ] JASPER DOUTHIT'S STORY.
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... seemed to think that if children learned to read , write and cipher so as to do ordinary business , it was sufficient . My father seemed to think that way . When I would beg him to let me go to school , he would say , in the summer time ...
... seemed to think that if children learned to read , write and cipher so as to do ordinary business , it was sufficient . My father seemed to think that way . When I would beg him to let me go to school , he would say , in the summer time ...
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... seemed to think there was dangerous heresy in the books , and did not bring them . I felt wronged , and told our hired man So. He thought so too . He was an illiterate fellow who went on sprees occasionally , but he swore he would help ...
... seemed to think there was dangerous heresy in the books , and did not bring them . I felt wronged , and told our hired man So. He thought so too . He was an illiterate fellow who went on sprees occasionally , but he swore he would help ...
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... seemed a splendid opportunity to get knowledge . The head man took quite an interest in me , and after much close questioning offered to give me a year's schooling if I would bind myself to serve an apprenticeship in book - binding . I ...
... seemed a splendid opportunity to get knowledge . The head man took quite an interest in me , and after much close questioning offered to give me a year's schooling if I would bind myself to serve an apprenticeship in book - binding . I ...
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... seemed a big sum , but I paid it , though he insisted in after years in helping " If I don't let you He would say : have it , I will spend it for drink . " During the Civil War he was in prison for a long time near the home of his own ...
... seemed a big sum , but I paid it , though he insisted in after years in helping " If I don't let you He would say : have it , I will spend it for drink . " During the Civil War he was in prison for a long time near the home of his own ...
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Sida 8 - I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own.
Sida 45 - Toombs said, which he did not say, " that he would call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill...
Sida 8 - Religion ! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford.
Sida 84 - Let your light so shine before men, that others seeing your good works, may glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Sida 190 - No foot of land do I possess, Nor cottage in the wilderness.' "When the partitioners of the estate set apart this Lithia Springs ground to my share, I was grateful in a sense, yet, in another sense, I was a little unhappy that I could not now honestly sing the old song.
Sida 163 - Then he goes on to warn his hearers how there is always a counterfeit in this world of the noblest message and teaching. Thus there are two freedoms — the false, where a man is free to do what he likes ; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
Sida 14 - Here, more than in any other area, "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.
Sida 141 - What shall it profit a man though he gain the whole world and lose his own soul.
Sida 45 - With malice toward none; and charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.