 | William Wells Brown - 2003 - 126 páginas
...1967 NARRATIVE OF WILLIAM W. BROWN FUGITIVE SLAVE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven. Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who gains his fortune from the blood of souls? Cowper SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED BOSTON:... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 2003 - 324 páginas
...thoughts of such a traffic causes us to exclaim with the poet, " — Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who gains his fortune from the blood of souls?"6 Between fifty and sixty slaves were... | |
 | Peter L. Bernstein - 2005 - 472 páginas
...destructive wars, captivity, slavery and death, we have reason to shudder at the gloomy perspective, and to apprehend that, in the retributive justice of the...have so wantonly and wickedly inflicted upon others And, perhaps, in the decrepitude of our empire, some transcendent genius, whose powers of mind shall... | |
 | 1833 - 462 páginas
...ML McJilton. John C. Calhoun— Traitor to his country *s intercut: Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath to blast the wretch. Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? By JL Anderson. JC Calhoun — To... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - 1860 - 794 páginas
...duplicity. For my conscience would exclaim, with the dramatic poet, — " Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?" In the language of the lamented, but... | |
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Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon... 
