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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 24 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 10 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 8 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 4 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War 4 0 Browse Search
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
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nswer to the question propounded. Such images, emblematical of truth, were used in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and also in China, as well as among the Hebrews. The image was suspended by a cord, so as to lie over the heart of the judge and the high-priest. Aaron became, in a certain sense, a judge in the matters of conscience or religious polity which were submitted to him. See Adam Clark's commentary on Exodus XXVIII. 30. Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, lib. XV. verse 41, as rendered by Dryden, says:— A custom was of old, and still remains, Which life or death by suffrages ordains: White stones and black within an urn are cast; The first absolve, but fate is in the last. In the promise to the Church of Philadelphia, also:— To him that overcometh will I give . . . . a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth save he that receiveth it. — Rev. II. 17. White was the emblem of purity, pardon, acceptance, choice, triumph, according to the occ<