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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 146 0 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 50 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 30 0 Browse Search
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States 18 4 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 18 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 18 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 18 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment 17 1 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 14 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 13 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
ay be, their descendants dwell with rapture upon the sacrifices (generally of other people) made by their ancestors in the Revolution. But now it is the height of lunacy to give up property for any other earthly good. Liberty, honor, and all that, are abstractions in their opinion; they are pearls thrown before swine, who prefer their bellies full of corn and a luxurious bed of mud to the brightest diamonds of Golconda. According to the Yankee criterion of madness announced by Forney, Moses was a lunatic because he preferred to endure affliction with the children of Israel rather than to be the leader of Pharaohs court and army and to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. The Hebrew saints enumerated by Saint Paul, some of whom "were tortured, not accepting deliverance, " others "had trial of cruel mocking and scourging, yea, moreover, of bonds and imprisonment," who "were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins