Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, Volumen1Houghton, Mifflin, 1902 |
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Abolitionists alluded anti-slavery arose arrived beautiful believe bless Boston Bowditch boys brother Burns called Chapel Charles Sumner church committee course dear death delight duty excite fact faith Faneuil Hall father fear feel felt Frank Preston Stearns French Fugitive Slave Law give Harriet Martineau hear heart hope hour human influence interesting Jackson James Jackson JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Journal kind lady later Latimer leave liberty Liberty party look Louis Mary Massachusetts meeting mind morning mother Nathaniel Bowditch never night noble Otis Place Paris party passed pleasant prayer present quiet received Salem seemed slave hunter slave power slavery soon soul speak spirit spot Street sweet tell Theodore Parker thoracentesis thought tion told truth Vineyard Sound walked Whittier whole wish words write written young
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Página 79 - I ever wished to see twice, except perhaps Mezzophanti, who is a monster of languages, the Briareus of parts of speech, a walking Polyglott and more, who ought to have existed at the time of the Tower of Babel as universal interpreter. He is indeed a marvel — unassuming, also. I tried him in all the tongues of which I knew a single oath, (or adjuration to the gods against post-boys, savages, Tartars, boatmen, sailors, pilots, gondoliers, muleteers, cameldrivers, vetturini, post-masters, post-horses,...
Página 59 - And mony a hill between ; But, day and night, my fancy's flight Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
Página 245 - BOWDITCH WITH warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight From life's glad morning to its solemn night ; Yet, through the dear God's love, I also show There 's Light above me by the Shade below.
Página 182 - Boston of this abduction. I hope it is not possible that the city will make the act its own, by any color or justification. Our State has suffered many disgraces, of late years, to spoil our pride in it, but never any so flagrant as this, if the people of the Commonwealth can be brought to be accomplices...
Página 138 - all right,' while I saw by her look of regret that she thought me 'all wrong.' It was, however, something like a cold sponge-bath,— that Washington Street walk by the side of a black man,— rather terrible at the outset, but wonderfully warming and refreshing afterwards! I had literally jumped 'in medias res.' But I did not hear until years afterwards, and a long time after Douglass had held office in Washington under Federal Government, and the slavery of his own race had been washed out in blood,...
Página 225 - If a physician is eagerly running about town to help break the laws; if we hear of his offering money to a jailer to let one of his prisoners go free ; if he is secretary of noisy political meetings; if he makes speeches in the streets, — we do not ask him to come and see us when we are sick.
Página 100 - Dr. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, a prominent physician, became an abolitionist in response to the Garrison mob: 'Then it has come to this that a man cannot speak on slavery within sight of Faneuil Hall.
Página 181 - Hall on Thursday, the 24th inst., to take means to secure the protection of the laws to all persons who may be in danger of abduction from the Commonwealth, and to request you to be present at a meeting thereof, to be held at Dr.
Página 133 - Nor dare I trust the faithless moon — Nor faithless man, whose burning lust For gold hath riveted my chain; Nor other leader can I trust But thee, of even the starry train; For all the host around thee burning, Like faithless man keep turning, turning. I may not follow where they go: Star of the North, I look to thee While on I press; for well I know Thy light and truth shall set me free — Thy light that no poor slave deceiveth; Thy truth that all my soul believeth.
Página 269 - That man must not be sent out of Boston as a slave. Anything but that ! The whole people must be called out...