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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father and mother, from whom the disposition is sure to be in part inherited, and by whom it m... ... memoir, was son to a clergyman of a Norfolk family, and was born at Coney Weston, on February 11, 1790. He was educated at Eton, and there formed mor... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...s of the ceremony. After all the boys had been confirmed about seven other people were confirmed, of whom two were quite as much as thirty, I should t... ...everybody was as disposed to be friendly as if I had been in your house at Weston. But, of course, it is all “missionary hardships and trials.” I don’... ...companiments of society. ‘ And I could not spend a quiet month with you at Weston. I should have people calling, the greatest of all nuisances, except...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...y a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the i... ...F THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUT- RAGED PEOPLE, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PI- RACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITH... ...al plea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the publ... ... to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the en- slaved people are also on trial. It is alleged, that they are, naturally, inferior... ...wrongs, and do not apprehend their rights. Looking, then, at your request, from this stand-point, and wishing every- thing of which you think me capab... ...- thing of which you think me capable to go to the benefit of my afflicted people, I part with my doubts and hesitation, and proceed to furnish you th... ...d the provocation to send me, without reserve, into the very everglades of Florida, beyond the remotest hope of emancipation; and his refusal to exerc... ...ted at Weymouth, the home of that glorious band of true abolitionists, the Weston family, and others. On at- tempting to take a seat in the omnibus to...

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