The Works of Charles Follen: The life of Charles Follen, signed E. L. F. [i.e. Eliza Lee FollenHilliard, Gray, 1842 - Unitarianism |
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Page 471 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common ; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Page 257 - So God created man in his own image ; — male and female created he them.
Page 377 - I shall be glad to answer any questions you may wish to ask. First, restoration of $199,000 is being recommended for the activity "Coal.
Page 181 - Lamar, and to accept the assurance of the high consideration with which I have the honor to be Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant, R PAKENHAM. The Honble. DAVID G. BURNET etc etc etc •AL 8. BEE TO TREAT.
Page 627 - But what, I would ask, is the great, the single object of all our meetings and societies ? Have we any other object than to impress upon the community this one principle, that the colored man is a man?
Page 447 - He reviewed, during this course of lectures, all the most celebrated writers and theories of infidelity; the French Encyclopedists, Hobbes, Hume, Tom Paine, and Fanny Wright. He vituperated none, he sneered at none, he treated them all with respect. He took Paine's " Age of Reason" into the pulpit, and read an eloquent passage from it, proving that he believed in God and in the immortality of the soul, and simply stated, that in the same pages were to be found the grossest indecencies. He pointed...
Page 632 - Resolved, that we consider the Anti-slavery cause as the cause of philanthropy, with regard to which all human beings, white men and colored men, citizens and foreigners, men and women, have the same duties and the same rights.
Page 475 - Then, my dear Uncle, I should not like to live there a bachelor, and perhaps get into immoral connections, that would degrade me in my own eyes, and in the opinion of those I love." The old gentleman laughed immoderately, stood up, held his sides, and laughed and coughed, exclaiming at intervals, " Ned, you will be the death of me ! " I knew not what to think of this ; but my aunt made him sit down, saying, " Mr. Seaward, your nephew is right; I like his sentiments.
Page 636 - Because the punishment proposed to be inflicted is believed to be at variance with the spirit of our institutions and our age, and with the soundest expositions of those civil and religious rights which are at once founded in our nature, and guaranteed by the constitutions of the United States and this Commonwealth ; Because the freedom of speech and the press is the chief instrument of the progress of truth and of social improvements, and is never to be restrained by legislation, except when it...
Page 306 - Thirty years have passed away since a residence of four years at Berlin, and excursions into Saxony and Silesia, had given me an enthusiastic relish for German literature. At that time, Wieland was there I think decidedly the most popular of the German poets, and although there was in his genius neither the originality nor the deep pathos of...