I experienced on that never to be forgotten morning — (for I left by daylight). I was making a leap in the dark. The probabilities, so far as I could by reason determine them, were stoutly against the undertaking. The preliminaries and precautions I... Frederick Douglass: the Colored Orator - Pàgina 34per Frederic May Holland - 1891 - 423 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Frederick Douglass - 1855 - 492 pàgines
...that never-tobe-forgotten morning — for I left by daylight. I was making a leap in the dark. Tbe probabilities, so far as I could by reason determine...assistance, appalled by fear at the trial hour, deserted me, thus leaving the responsibility of success or failure solely with myself. You, sir, can never know... | |
| Frederick Douglass - 1855 - 512 pàgines
...agony of soul which I experienced on that never-tobe-forgotten morning — for I left by daylight. I was making a leap in the dark. The probabilities,...stoutly against the undertaking. The preliminaries and prccautions I had adopted previously, all worked badly. I was like one going to war without weapons... | |
| Frederick Douglass - 1857 - 466 pàgines
...deep agony of soul which I experienced on that never-tobe-forgotten morning—for I left by daylight. I was making a leap in the dark. The probabilities,...assistance, appalled by fear at the trial hour* deserted me, thus leaving the responsibility of success or failure solely with myself. You, sir, can never know... | |
| James A. Emanuel, Theodore L. Gross - 1968 - 632 pàgines
...agony of soul which I experienced on that never to be forgotten morning — (for I left by daylight). I was making a leap in the dark. The probabilities,...without weapons — ten chances of defeat to one of Letter to Thomas Auld, which appeared in the Liberator, September 22, 1848: as reprinted in The Negro... | |
| Frederick Douglass - 1994 - 1226 pàgines
...agony of soul which I experienced on that never-to-be-forgotten morning — for I left by daylight. I was making a leap in the dark. The probabilities,...assistance, appalled by fear at the trial hour, deserted me, thus leaving the responsibility of success or failure solely with myself. You, sir, can never know... | |
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