Date: March 1843
"It was the sad confession and continual exemplification of the shortcomings of the composite man, the spirit burdened with clay and working in matter, and of the despair that assails the higher nature at finding itself so miserably thwarted by the earthly part."
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Date: 1845
"No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose."
preview | full record— Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Date: 1845
"Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness."
preview | full record— Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Date: 1845
"I then presented an appearance enough to affect any but a heart of iron."
preview | full record— Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)