Liberia: Or, Mr. Peyton's ExperimentsHarper & brothers, 1853 - 304 頁 |
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... labor of her life to keep them well - waxed and bright , and they were so cut and marked that it will take weeks of hard rubbing to make them look decently . I have not seen Keziah so pleased since you recovered as she was when she told ...
... labor of her life to keep them well - waxed and bright , and they were so cut and marked that it will take weeks of hard rubbing to make them look decently . I have not seen Keziah so pleased since you recovered as she was when she told ...
第 54 頁
... labor , and their spoiled children have but to receive and enjoy . With just such a gait of stately languor- regal in its indolent repose - might Pharaoh's daugh- ter have walked , amid her attendant maidens , along the rush - bordered ...
... labor , and their spoiled children have but to receive and enjoy . With just such a gait of stately languor- regal in its indolent repose - might Pharaoh's daugh- ter have walked , amid her attendant maidens , along the rush - bordered ...
第 55 頁
... labor on a farm . But she had accompanied her mistress on two journeys to Philadelphia ; and the fine dressing she had seen among persons of her own rank there , with their opportunities for enjoy- ment , had struck her so favorably ...
... labor on a farm . But she had accompanied her mistress on two journeys to Philadelphia ; and the fine dressing she had seen among persons of her own rank there , with their opportunities for enjoy- ment , had struck her so favorably ...
第 58 頁
... next year matters were still worse ; they had tasted the pleasure of an indolent life , and were not inclined to resume their old habits of active exer- tion . Few men naturally like a life of labor . It 58 LIBERIA ; OR ,
... next year matters were still worse ; they had tasted the pleasure of an indolent life , and were not inclined to resume their old habits of active exer- tion . Few men naturally like a life of labor . It 58 LIBERIA ; OR ,
第 59 頁
... labor . It was first inflicted as a curse ; and though obedience often transmutes it into a blessing , yet people gen- erally , white as well as black , count it a happiness if they are elevated above the necessity for exer- tion . It ...
... labor . It was first inflicted as a curse ; and though obedience often transmutes it into a blessing , yet people gen- erally , white as well as black , count it a happiness if they are elevated above the necessity for exer- tion . It ...
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