For when girls have been corrupted, and have been scorned by their lovers after they have immodestly copulated with them in the ho...pe and promise of marriage with them, and have found themselves disappointed in all their hopes and everywhere despised, they turn to the help and protection of devils; either for the sake of vengeance by bewitching those lovers or the wives they have married, or for the sake of giving themselves up to every sort of lechery. Alas! experience tells us that there is no number to such girls, and consequently the witches that spring from this class are innumerable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If prophets or those who divine by dreams appear among you and promise you omens or portents, and the omens or the portents declar...ed by them take place, and they say, "Let us follow other gods" (whom you have not known) "and let us serve them," you must not heed the words of those prophets or those who divine by dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you indeed love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The house of my body has spoken often as you rebuild me like blocks,... and promise to come visit when I'm finally adjusted on safe land, and am livable, joist to joist with storm windows and screens ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does no...t lick, and make fouler still with its slime?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a normal person the motor and sensory nervous systems act as the windows of the individual personality.... [ellipsis in origina...l] The broken, many-stained and pictorial windows through which the light is struggling under disadvantages to harmonize itself with the physical world at large are found in three classes of persons--the mentally deficient, the morally deficient, and the insane. In these, the light is there, but the images, as in a broken cathedral window, are more or less shattered and confused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the ...painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... we have the satisfaction of knowing that because all of us believed, we inspired, motivated, and liberated some of the most be...autiful people on earth--young, gifted, and black.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I assert that the first, and fundamental right of every woman is to be allowed the free exercise of her own belief; and that free ...exercise is not allowed when she is in any way restrained either morally or intellectually.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a Tax-Paying Citizen of the United States I am entitled to a voice in Governmental affairs.... Having paid this unlawful Tax un...der written Protest for forty years, I am entitled to receive from the Treasury of "Uncle Sam" the full amount of both Principal and Interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »