Memoirs of Margaret Jane Blake of Baltimore, Md: And Selections in Prose and Verse

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Press of Innes & Son, 1897 - 48 стор.
 

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Сторінка 28 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Сторінка 23 - Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Сторінка 46 - THE fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Сторінка 9 - Then note the streetscape, now an urban oasis created by a collaboraWell do I remember one delightful race I enjoyed in Margy's arms, though only four years old at the time. It was in 1828, on the 4th of July. The corner-stone of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was to be laid— the pioneer railroad of the country! ... A grand procession, with flags flying and floats displaying various trades, all richly adorned, and the whole animated by martial music, went up Baltimore street — When our vantage...
Сторінка 13 - all the bond women had been of the same mind, how soon the institution could have vanished from the earth, and all the misery belonging to it, been lifted from the hearts of the holders of slaves.
Сторінка 10 - The printing-press float pleased me best of all, with its attendant imps dressed as mercuries, who scattered sheets that were being printed as the procession moved along. The last division passed, the blare of the trumpets grew faint from a distance. Then the girls turned down Eutaw street, full of fun, and singing a popular song of the day, " The Blue Bonnets are over the Border," " Hurrah for the Bonnets of Blue," raced to the top of their speed back home.
Сторінка 9 - When our vantage ground was gained, corner of Eutaw street, Margy lifted me up in her arms to behold what has never faded from my memory — the magnificent...
Сторінка 20 - Walter resented the indignity done to his dear old mammy, and threw his arms around her neck, kissing her fondly, exclaiming : " My old mammy will never make anybody black.
Сторінка 46 - Psalm, and you will read in the first verse : " The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

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