 ... cometic career, he has sometimes hit the white, and often flung a boomerang. But his works abound in strong argument and in fine descriptions of historic events and scenes, from which we may take the following, in preference to a specimen of his Boanerges...  Ten Sermons of Religion - Página 236de Theodore Parker - 1853 - 395 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Universalist Church of America. General Convention - 1858 - 388 páginas
...whose grievous offence was that she was a Covenanter. She was a beautiful maiden of eighteen years. Graham ordered her to be tied to a stake in the sea at low water mark, and to be left to drown as the tide slowly came in. When this was done, Graham and his associates... | |
 | Alonzo Ames Miner, Elbridge Gerry Brooks, Alonzo Amos Miner, Abel Charles Thomas - 1858 - 410 páginas
...whose grievous offence was that she was a Covenanter. She was a beautiful maiden of eighteen years. Graham ordered her to be tied to a stake in the sea at low water mark, and to be left to drown as the tide slowly came in. When this was done, Graham and his associates... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1861 - 408 páginas
...paid. Well, Lord Claverhouse had a commission to root out the Covenanters with fire and sword, and ^ent to that work with the zeal of an American kidnapper....Graham ordered her to be tied ^to a stake in the sea at low-water, and left to drown slowly at the advance of the tide. It was done: and his creatures —... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1879 - 376 páginas
...any rate, a slave-hunter, a kidnapper in some form ; and of course he would now be as much honoured in this city as he then was in Edinburgh and London,...Graham ordered her to be tied to a stake in the sea at low-water, and left to drown slowly at the advance of the tide. It was done : and his creatures, —... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 páginas
...scenes, from which we may take the following, in preference to a specimen of his Boanerges style : — " By means of his marshals he one day caught a Scotch...of them in Scotland, as of their descendants here" (he is thinking of the reclaimers of fugitive slaves), " his commissioners, his marshals, and his attorneys... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 páginas
...following, in preference to a specimen of his Boanerges style : — " By means of his marshals lie one day caught a Scotch girl, a covenanter. She was...of them in Scotland, as of their descendants here" (he is thinking of the reclaimers of fugitive slaves), " his commissioners, his marshals, and his attorneys... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 528 páginas
...scenes, from which we may take the following, in preference to a specimen of his Boanerges style : — " By means of his marshals he one day caught a Scotch...Margaret. Graham ordered her to be tied to a stake iu the sea at low water, and left to drown slowly at the advance of the tide. It was done ; and his... | |
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