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Lewis Tappan

21quotes

Quotes by Lewis Tappan

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We will persevere, come life or death.
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One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
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The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.
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Two or three of the men, besides one of the little girls, are natives of Congo, which is on the coast just south of the equator.
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We do not believe that any went away with the same views, and the same feelings in relation to any one in whose veins courses African blood.
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The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.
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There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.
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The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.
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One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics
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Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.
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