‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,

n account of my being disabled in the Arm,

and I was Wounded in the Head by a small Shot.

I should make my Escape.

for which he receives large Sums of Money

Dinner at Mrs. Betty Howard’s, she told the Captain of my deplorable Condition, and said she would be glad, if he could by some means or other relieve me; The Captain

where I was confin’d Four Years and seven months;

The Way I made my Escape from these Villains was this

where I expected nothing but immediate Death,

I immediately jump’d overboard, chusing rather to be drowned, than to be kill’d by those barbarous and inhuman Savages. I

May

Art. 5. – There shall exist no distinction other than those based on virtue and talent, and other superiority afforded by law in the exercise of a public function.

There cannot exist slaves on this territory, servitude is therein forever abolished. All men are born, live and die free and French.

It is a necessary accomplishment, therefore, although of short use, for the French rule is wise, that no lady dances after marriage.

Religion indeed has produced a Phyllis Whately; but it could not produce a poet. The compositions published under her name are below the dignity of criticism.

The first difference which strikes us is that of colour.

The women are submitted to unjust drudgery. This I believe is the case with every barbarous people.

“We’re getting rich—two Symbols of Incorruptibility!—without counting Billson!”  “Three!—count Shadbelly in—we can’t have too many!”

and without thinking I left the paper lying open on my desk

He seemed to dimly remember that it was he that found out about the negro blood; that it was he that told the village; that the village told Goodson where they got it; that he thus saved Goodson from marrying the tainted girl

And at this point he remembered that he couldn’t swim anyway.

Goodson had told him to go to thunder and mind his own business—he wasn’t hankering to follow Hadleyburg to heaven!

Is theft better than lying?

Hadleyburg the Incorruptible was on every lip in America, from Montreal to the Gulf, from the glaciers of Alaska to the orange-groves of Florida;

“Nobody knows this secret but the Richardses . . . and us . . . nobody.”

Mary looked troubled, and for a while was silent.  Then she said stammeringly:

That ‘one thing,’ indeed! 

“It weighs a hundred and sixty pounds?  Why, Mary, it’s for-ty thou-sand dollars—think of it—a whole fortune!  Not ten men in this village are worth that much.  Give me the paper.”

let the money be delivered,

I am a foreigner, and am presently going back to my own country, to remain there permanently. 

gold coin

in reality an incorruptible town

ipped about the chamber in an agony of nervous agitation;

er, there is the more refined capacity for comprehension. By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

The police are entirely at faul

the chimneys of all the rooms on the fourth story were too narrow to admit the passage of a human being.

Théâtre des Variétés.”

Bi-Part Sou

Residing in Paris during the spring

I had walled the monster up within the tomb!

My next step was to look for the beast which had been the cause of so much wretchedness;

as the monks of the middle ages are recorded to have walled up their victims.

I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan.

This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil

fondness for myself rather disgusted and annoyed. By slow degrees, these feelings of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred.

hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence

Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not

I again plunged into excess, and soon drowned in wine all memory of the deed.

I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.

even Pluto began to experience the effects of my ill temper.

I even offered her personal violence.

regarded all black cats as witches in disguis

a small monkey,

From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition

nd what is reason? and what is love? and what is life?

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, It provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don’t you let it out then?

Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding.

What behaved well in the past or behaves well to-day is not such a wonder, The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.

One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same,

What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my good will, Scattering it freely forever.

what is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

The negro holds firmly the reins of his four

Which of the young men does she like the best? Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.

Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded, I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no, And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.

The earth good and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same

And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,

So neither will I; and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas..

The colonies have manifested such a spirit of good order and obedience to continental government, as is sufficient to make every reasonable person easy and happy on that head.

Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster;

There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God;

they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger, neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold ’em up one moment; the devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them and swallow them up;

No, I never intended to come here: I had laid out matters otherwise in my mind; I thought I should contrive well for myself: I thought my scheme good: I intended to take effectual care; but it came upon me unexpected; I did not look for it at that time, and in that manner; it came as a thief: death outwitted me: God’s wrath was too quick for me. O my cursed foolishness! I was flattering myself, and pleasing myself with vain dreams of what I would do hereafter; and when I was saying peace and safety, then sudden destruction came upon me.”

damnation, and flatters [Pg 84]himself that he contrives well for himself,

at what moment God shall permit him.

I must turn my back upon the town, and travel with them into the vast and desolate wilderness, I knew not whither.

His gracious and merciful spirit, and we were both alive to see the light of the next morning.

Garrison

Remarkable

so that she could not hear any of the prayer, or singing, till the two or three last words of the Psalm.

she heard a voice, that she took to be Martha Carriers, and it seem’d as if it was over her head. The voice told her, she should within two or three days be poisoned.

again

He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other

And as miserable was the waste that was there made of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, calves, lambs, roasting pigs, and fowl (which they had plundered in the town), some roasting, some lying and burning, and some boiling to feed our merciless enemies

o my own Religion again.

But how should I know he is such a God as I worship in Trinity, and such a Savior as I rely upon? tho: this hath thousands of times been suggested to mee, yet God hath helped me ever.

which correction I saw the Lord sent to humble and try me and doe mee Good: and it was not altogether ineffectual.

Who was so good, so just, so learn'd, so wise, From all the Kings on earth she won the prize.

feeld

drunkennes

brought out fire, and sett them on fire, which soone tooke in their matts, &, standing close togeather, with ye wind, all was quickly on a flame, and therby more were burnte to death then was otherwise slain; it burnte their bowstrings, and made them unservisable. Those yt scaped ye fire were slaine with ye sword; some hewed to peeces, others rune throw with their rapiers,

In ye mean time, the Pequents, espetially in ye winter before, sought to make peace with ye Narigansets

a profitable member both in church

sundrie fadomes

order to learn our language and return

giving thanks to God

calabashes

as they appear to have no religion

Afterwards they came swimming to the boats, bringing parrots, balls of cotton thread, javelins, and many other things which they exchanged for articles we gave them, such as glass beads, and hawk’s bells; which trade was carried on with the utmost good will.

gave five hundred and eighty-four, but the true one which he kept to himself was seven hundred and seven leagues.

orthwest and northwest

they came from the west

determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

forever

he stone canoe

They sent notice of their decision to the nearest settlement of Indians and told them at the same time how to make propitiation when necessity forced them to kill one of the deer tribe.

eeth and claws which nature has given us, for it is evident that man’s weapons were not intended for us.”

The old priest made a rush and grabbed his sword from the wall.

such audacity and the manifest risk that we ran of having the casas reales set on fire

We having set fire to some of the houses in which they were,

mulata

offered to your Majesty for truth.