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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his act...

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...s Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...iversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thomas Carlyle The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle PART I CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY N ear seven y... ...an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most excellent home-baked bread. The native peasant vil... ...rer, perhaps cost her many anxieties. Among the Papers given me, is an old browned half-sheet in stiff school hand, unpunctuated, occasionally ill spe... ...ny of them; the shaggy, thick, blue-black hair of others struck you; their brown complexion, dusky look of suppressed fire, in general their tragic co... ... the large Quaker circle, the Gurneys, Frys, &c., and also with Buxton the Abolitionist. It is droll to hear them talking of all the common topics of ...

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...most advanced and painfully acquired civilization. Ward and Garnett, Wells Brown and Pennington, Loguen and Douglass, are banners on the outer wall, u... ...ed men, beginning as far back as 1827, when the Rev. Samuel E. Cornish and John B. 14 My Bondage and My Freedom Russworm (a graduate of Bowdoin colle... ... I found myself in the midst of a group of children of many colors; black, brown, copper colored, and nearly white. I had not seen so many children be... ... has the south shaped the manners of the north, in this respect, that even abolitionists make very little of the surname of a Negro. The only improvem... ...,” “Jims,” and “Neds” of the south, observable here is, that “Wil- liam,” “John,” “James,” “Edward,” are substituted. It goes 46 My Bondage and My Fr... ...“young” Barney—father and son. Old Barney was a fine looking old man, of a brownish complexion, who was quite portly, and wore a dignified aspect for ... ...r atur atur ature A e A e A e A e Awakened wakened wakened wakened wakened ABOLITIONISTS SPOKEN OF—MY EAGERNESS TO KNOW WHAT THIS WORD MEANT—MY CONSUL... ...h, or some of his company, speaking with much warmth and excitement about “abolitionists.” Of who or what these were, I was totally ignorant. I found,... ...that I could pray for light. I consulted a good colored man, named Charles Johnson; and, in tones of holy affection, he told me to pray, and what to p...

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...wed to them to fill their big maws and chew the patient cud. There, on the brown, ugly, undrained field, within easy sight of the President’s house, s... ... now a member of the Lower House from an electoral district in that State. John Quincy Adams went into the House of Representatives after he had been ... ...rn, splashing about through the mud, and reminding one not unfrequently of John Gilpin. Why they always went so fast, destroying their horses’ feet on... ...ple,” and of the ruin to those efforts which arises from the malice of the abolitionists. To all this you make some answer with your tongue that is ha... ...s been coming by degrees, and now the South had felt that it was come. Old John Brown, who did his best to create a servile insurrection at Harper’s F... ...n coming by degrees, and now the South had felt that it was come. Old John Brown, who did his best to create a servile insurrection at Harper’s Ferry,... ...arty of the North is divided into two sections, of which one may be called abolitionist, and the other non-abolition- ist. Mr. Lincoln’s government pr... ... of those who do so. I heard one of Mr. Lincoln’s cabinet declare old John Brown to be a hero and a martyr. All the Protestant Germans are abolitionis... ...e old John Brown to be a hero and a martyr. All the Protestant Germans are abolitionists— and they have become so strong a political element in the co...

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...ess, and that is the case of Judge Douglas’s old friend Colonel Richard M. Johnson. I will also add to the remarks I have made (for I am not going to ... ... or small. It is for that reason that I indorse Lyman Trumbull. [Mr. JAMES BROWN (Douglas postmaster): “What does Ford’s History say about him?”] Some... ...r [Douglas’s organ] re- minded the Times that the charge really applied to John Henry; and I do know that John Henry is now making speeches and fierce... ...e doctrine that there is such a thing as a superior and inferior race; and Abolitionists are re- quired and expected to vote for Mr. Lincoln because h... ...ing the continent, which you say yourself is coming. Frank Blair and Gratz Brown tried to get up a system of gradual emancipation in Missouri, had an ... .... But you are deceiving yourself. Y ou all know that Frank Blair and Gratz Brown, down there in St. Louis, undertook to introduce that system in Misso... ...e Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Four No man can, who does not give the Abolitionists an argument to deny the obligation enjoined by the Constituti... ... driven from the Territories, cannot avoid furnishing an argument by which Abolitionists may deny the obligation to return fugitives, and claim the po...

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...mes, when much excited with his subject, he had an odd way — compounded of John Bunyan, and Balfour of Burley — of taking his great quarto Bible under... ...s, black hats, white hats, glazed caps, fur caps; in coats of drab, black, brown, green, blue, nankeen, striped jean and linen; and there, in that one... ...ngers, these pigs. Ugly brutes they are; having, for the most part, scanty brown backs, like the lids of old horsehair trunks: spotted with un wholes... ...d it up again in wood and plaster; widen it a little; throw in part of St. John’s Wood; put green blinds outside all the private houses, with a red cu... ...all, wiry, muscular old man, from the west; sun burnt and swarthy; with a brown white hat on his knees, American Notes – Dickens 133 and a giant um... ...mmer where I live, the sun don’t. No. I’m a brown forester, I am. I an’t a Johnny Cake. There are no smooth skins where I live. We’re rough men there.... ...oaded the rifle, and shielded the murderer. Public opin ion threatens the abolitionist with death, if he venture to the South; and drags him with a r... ...abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia, to pieces. ’—’I warn the abolitionists, ’ says South Carolina, ‘ignorant, infuriated barbarians as t... ...throw any of them into our hands, he may expect a felon’s death. ’—’Let an abolitionist come within the borders of South Carolina,’ cries a third; mil...

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... all the same. O.M. The ant discriminates between friend and stranger. Sir John Lubbock took ants from two different nests, made them drunk with whisk... ..., then carried their friends home and threw the strangers over board. Sir John repeated the experiment a number of times. For a time the sober ants d... ... detail wherein the ant is a long way the superior of any human being. Sir John Lubbock proved by many experiments that an ant knows a stranger ant of... ...y looking glad, but this was not intentional. Edward I. comes next; light brown paper, thirty five squares. ( Image not available—ed. ) That is an ed... ...g of a sun which had risen in such splendor. Edward IV.; twenty two light brown squares. ( Image not available—ed.) That is a society editor, sitting... ...imself is sincere—his heart is in his protest. Robert Hardy was our first abolitionist—awful name! He was a journeyman cooper, and worked in the big ... ...was decided that he was a coward. All of a sudden he proclaimed himself an abolitionist— straight out and publicly! He said that negro slavery was a c... ...eek afterward four young lightweights in the village proclaimed themselves abolitionists! In life Hardy had not been able to make a convert; everybody... ...are was where men rode on gorillas. What Is Man and Other Essays 164 John Brown was a very good insane man who tried to get fugitives slaves into Vir...

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...ect it; and write me at your first leisure. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN. TO JOHN MATHERS, JACKSONVILLE, ILL. SPRINGFIELD, JULY 20, 1858. JNO. MA THERS,... ...ey can only get the encour- agement of our folks nominating pretty extreme abolitionists. It is thought they will do nothing if our folks nominate men... ...r. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five NEGROES ARE MEN TO J. U. BROWN. SPRINGFIELD, OCT 18, 1858 HON. J. U. BROWN. MY DEAR SIR:—I do not pe... ...ess, and that is the case of Judge Douglas’s old friend Colonel Richard M. Johnson. I will also add to the remarks I have made (for I am not going to ... ...ionally elect a President, it will be our duty to see that you submit. Old John Brown has been executed for treason against a State. We cannot object,... ...ly elect a President, it will be our duty to see that you submit. Old John Brown has been executed for treason against a State. We cannot object, even... ...ake to destroy the Union, it will be our duty to deal with you as old John Brown has been dealt with. We shall try to do our duty. We hope and believe... ...use they are hurt, and insist that they were put up to it by some rascally abolitionist. I am quite aware that they do not state their case precisely ...

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.................................................................... 25 Sarah Brown ........................................................................ .......................................................................... 27 Johnnie Sayre ................................................................ .......................................................................... 44 John Horace Burleson ......................................................... .......................................................................... 47 John M. Church ............................................................... ...................................................................... 58 Jim Brown ........................................................................ .................................................................. 122 Elijah Browning ..................................................................... ...ring the coat of indifference to hide the shame of defeat; I, child of the abolitionist idealism— A sort of Brand in a birth of half-and-half. What ot...

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...man, and with the noiseless passage of the plough as it turned up the rich brown earth, and wrought a graceful pattern in the stubbled fields. On the ... ...esently, the youngest Miss Pecksniff ran out again to pick up his hat, his brown paper parcel, his um- brella, his gloves, and other small articles; a... .... These injuries having been comforted externally, with patches of pickled brown paper, and Mr Pecksniff having been comforted internally, with some s... ...t reason lest we cry with it. What is the domestic news since yester- day? John Westlock is gone, I hope?’ 21 Charles Dickens ‘Indeed, no,’ said Char... ...eet door. ‘There is the creature! Now mark my words, he has come back with John Westlock for his box, and is going to help him to take it to the mail.... ... Mr Pecksniff, in his most winning tone. ‘You will shake hands, sir.’ ‘No, John,’ said Mr Pecksniff, with a calmness quite ethereal; ‘no, I will not s... ... about Mark and the negro, and then it appeared that all the Norrises were abolitionists. It was a great relief to hear this, and Martin was so much e... ...that he and his friends would hang 337 Charles Dickens without trial, any Abolitionist who might pay them a visit. For the surplus, it was agreed tha...

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...ch, softly stealing down over night, with its white placidity startles the brown farmer peering out from his threshold at daybreak. 7 Melville CHAPTE... ...s since, I have laughed over it. At least you must recall my name—Ringman, John Ringman.” “Large loaf? Invited you to tea? Ringman? Ringman? Ring? Rin... ...tion of the boat. Looking downward while he swung, the cripple seemed in a brown study. As moved by the sight, and conjecturing that here was some bat... ...h, ugh! I fear I don’t,” with another groan. His name is T ruman, is it?” “John T ruman.” “Where does he live?” “In St. Louis.” “Where’s his office?” ... ...heir corn. Though, to me, the niggers are the freer of the two. You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?” he added, squaring himself with both hands on his... ...ctor’s face with no more rev- erence than if it were a target. “You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?” “As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by ab... ...so deuced analytical. Reminded me somehow of what I’ve heard about Colonel John Moredock, of Illinois, only your friend ain’t quite so good a fellow a... ... grave—as is not unusual with men of his complexion, a sultry and tragical brown—yet with nobody, Indians excepted, otherwise than courteous in a manl...

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...was true moral valor, too; for at that time, in many parts of the West, an abolitionist was regarded as little better than a horse-thief, and even “Ab... ...last reached the fountain of Federal justice; and finally the execution of John Brown, for his wild raid into Virginia, to invite the slaves to rally ... ...reached the fountain of Federal justice; and finally the execution of John Brown, for his wild raid into Virginia, to invite the slaves to rally to th... ...lave and half free, but must be- come all one thing or all the other. When John Brown lay under sentence of death he declared that now he was sure tha... ...and half free, but must be- come all one thing or all the other. When John Brown lay under sentence of death he declared that now he was sure that sla... ...ts final extirpation, to the music of the war-song of the great conflict: “John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave, But his soul is marching ... ...nal extirpation, to the music of the war-song of the great conflict: “John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave, But his soul is marching on.” ...

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...this pauper testify to his having received the gospel of humility? A gentle- man met him in the workhouse, and said (which I myself really thought goo... ...ot behind the table, down by the side of her, there? Witches T wo and Three croak angrily, ‘Show him the child!’ Charles Dickens 50 She drags out a s... ...I turn my disconsolate eyes on the refreshments that are to restore me. I find that I must either scald my throat by insanely ladling into it, against... ...e another case. Take your own case. Y ou are going off by railway, from any T erminus. Y ou have twenty minutes for dinner, before you go. You want yo... ...t in the direst extremity—sickens your contemplation, and your words are these: ‘I cannot dine on stale sponge-cakes that turn to sand in the mouth. I... ...shy metropolitan neighbourhoods and small shops, is the fancy of a humble artist, as exemplified in two portraits representing Mr. Thomas Sayers, of G... ... interposed in less gross cases. Now, I have always held that there may be, and that there unquestionably is, such a thing as use without abuse, and t...

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... and I’ll stick to it. Honest Injun, I will. People would call me a lowdown Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum — but that don’t make no diff... ...eadline, you won’t have to come a near the raft — please do.” “Set her back, John, set her back!” says one. They backed water. “Keep away, boy — keep ... ...; sometimes they wash them over with red water paint that they call Spanish brown, same as they do in town. They had big brass dog irons that could ... ... the oldest and Tom next — tall, beautiful men with very broad shoulders and brown faces, and long black hair and black eyes. They dressed in white l... ..., when he judged I was asleep, and saying, “Po’ little ‘Lizabeth! po’ little Johnny! it’s mighty hard; I spec’ I ain’t ever gwyne to see you no mo’, n... ...nowed everything was tiptop, and said so — said “How do you get biscuits to brown so nice?” and “Where, for the land’s sake, did you get these amaz...

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............................................................ 170 CHAPTER IX – JOHN KNOX AND HIS RELATIONS TO WOMEN .................................. 190... ... best of the comparison. There is now a Villon Society in England; and Mr. John Payne has translated him entirely into English, a task of un- usual di... ... of his nature into his work, and impregnate it from end to end. If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswe... ...ny special revelation.” His whole life is to him what it was to Sir Thomas Browne, one perpetual miracle. Everything is strange, everything unaccounta... ...lso.” “I do not hesitate to say,” he adds, “that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both in pe... ...m with a quicker pulse. Not far from twenty years later, when Captain John Brown was taken at Harper’s Ferry, Thoreau was the first to come forward in... ...or the good cause that he should die; but he praised his action as I think Brown would have liked to hear it praised. Thus this singularly eccentric a...

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...nquires one of the overseers. ‘I rents a two-pair back, gentlemen, at Mrs. Brown’s, Number 3, Little King William’s-alley, which has lived there this ... ... money; and some people even went so far as to assert, that the three Miss Browns, who had an obscure family pew just behind the churchwardens’, were ... ...room, is a perfect picture of quiet neatness; the carpet is cov- ered with brown Holland, the glass and picture-frames are carefully enveloped in yell... ...ands folded up like a note, “My name’s Smith,” says he, “and I called from Johnson’s about that business of Thompson’s.”— ”Oh,” says the other, quite ... ...wn on him directly, “How is Thompson?” says he; “Pray sit down, Mr. Smith: John, leave the room.” Out went the servant; and the gentle- man and Fixem ... ... fectly providential occurrence changed the tide of pub- lic feeling. Mrs. Johnson Parker, the mother of seven extremely fine girls—all unmarried—hast... ...s I. “He is a friend to Reform,” says Mr. Wilson. “Prove it,” says I. “The abolitionist of the na- tional debt, the unflinching opponent of pensions, ...

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...l I then saw you I was not aware of your being what is generally called an abolitionist, or, as you call yourself, a Liberty man, though I well knew t... ...need yield any- thing on the point in difference between them. If the Whig abolitionists of New York had voted with us last fall, Mr. Clay would now b... ...with so few others. Let me hear from you soon. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. TO JOHN BENNETT. SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 15, 1846. JOHN BENNETT. FRIEND JOHN: Nathan... ...s, A. LINCOLN. 17 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two TO MORRIS AND BROWN SPRINGFIELD, October 21, 1847. MESSRS. MORRIS AND BROWN. GENTLEMEN:—Y... ...xas or of the United States, and that the same is true of the site of Fort Brown, then I am with him for his justification. In that case I shall be mo... ...one—concurring, as he did generally, with the gentleman from Arkansas [Mr. Johnson] that the postpone- ment might jeopard the safety of the propositio... ...n new votes of Florida, Texas, Iowa, and Wisconsin. I know our good friend Browning is a great admirer of Mr. Clay, and I there- fore fear he is favor... ...he Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two 1851 LETTERS TO FAMILY MEMBERS TO JOHN D. JOHNSTON. January 2, 1851 DEAR JOHNSTON:—Your request for eighty do... ...ware that there is a text in some Bibles that is not in mine. Professional abolitionists have made more use of it than of any passage in the Bible. It...

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...wd I certainly include myself, that it was essentially necessary that Lord John Russell should at that time declare openly what En- gland intended to ... ...fense given by England to the Northern States was this declaration of Lord John Russell’s. But it has been always made evident to me that the sin did ... ...th the surest results. Reticence in this matter was not possible; and Lord John Russell, in making the open avowal which gave such of- fense to the No... ...he St. Lawrence just below Quebec. But the waters do not mix. The thicker, browner stream of the lesser river still keeps the northeastern bank till i... ...uthern States, not because they care for cotton, not because they are anti-abolitionists, not because they admire the hearty pluck of those who are en... ...ents of volunteers consisting wholly of Germans. And the Ger- mans are all abolitionists. To all the men of the West the name of Fremont is dear. He i... ...ed from a different point of view. As a rule, the men of the North are not abolitionists. It is quite certain that they were not so before secession b... ...t of architectural pretenses. Little turrets are better than this, or even brown battlements made of mortar. Except in America I do not remember to ha... ... and the only shades known on the cheeks of children are those composed of brown, yellow, and white. All this comes of those damnable hot-air pipes wi...

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...nquires one of the overseers. ‘I rents a two-pair back, gentlemen, at Mrs. Brown’s, Number 3, Little King William’s-alley, which has lived there this ... ... money; and some people even went so far as to assert, that the three Miss Browns, who had an obscure family pew just behind the churchwardens’, were ... ...room, is a perfect picture of quiet neatness; the carpet is cov- ered with brown Holland, the glass and picture-frames are carefully enveloped in yell... ...ands folded up like a note, “My name’s Smith,” says he, “and I called from Johnson’s about that business of Thompson’s.”— ”Oh,” says the other, quite ... ...wn on him directly, “How is Thompson?” says he; “Pray sit down, Mr. Smith: John, leave the room.” Out went the servant; and the gentle- man and Fixem ... ... fectly providential occurrence changed the tide of pub- lic feeling. Mrs. Johnson Parker, the mother of seven extremely fine girls—all unmarried—hast... ...s I. “He is a friend to Reform,” says Mr. Wilson. “Prove it,” says I. “The abolitionist of the na- tional debt, the unflinching opponent of pensions, ...

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...ginning to form about us, that are her children. But is there? If ever Dr. Johnson said a true word, it was when he replied to the Scottish judge Burn... ...th cen- tury, by comparison with our forefathers!’ ‘Oh, no, my Lord,’ said Johnson, ‘we are quite as strong as our ancestors, and a great deal wiser.’... ...his ghostly ugliness. The mouth, in that stage of the apocalypse which Sir John Herschel was able to arrest in his eighteen- inch mirror, is amply dev... ...in a quadrille, except Draco, the bloody lawgiver, Bishop Bonner, and Mrs. Brownrigg? The next pet was Sir Alexander Ball. Concerning Bowyer, Coleridg... ...d years back, and, from mere ignorance, giving slang translations from Tom Brown, L’Estrange, and other jocular writers— had put down the verb sterben... ...ich such a tale as this could lend any countenance to the schemes of these abolitionists? That logic travelled in the following chan- nel. Such a tale... ... classes, he set the highest value upon the theory of the Scotch physician Brown, or (as it is usually called, from the Latin name of its author,) the...