"And we all ordained, on that day that the oaths were sworn, that neither bondman nor freeman might go to the army without leave, nor any of them to us.

He is a path, if any be misled; He is a robe, if any naked be; If any chance to hunger, he is bread; If any be a bondman, he is free; If any be but weak, how strong is he!

Behold the chain of thy bondman!

I doat; I have not lost my sight, and yet am blind; No bondman, yet have lost my liberty; No natural fool, and yet I want my wit.

let me define myself: A dotard young, a blind man that can see, A witty fool, a bondman that is free.

They are commonly slaves, captives, voluntary servants, Amator amicae mancipium, as [5420]Castilio terms him, his mistress' servant, her drudge, prisoner, bondman, what not?

Next to the prince of Cluain Earaird who also had seized him by the hand, he said: "You shall be a servant and a bondman ere you die and you shall lose your territory and your race will be a servile one." To another of those who led him by the hand he said:"What moved you to drag me by the hand from my own monastery?"

Next to the prince of Cluain Earaird who also had seized him by the hand, he said: "You shall be a servant and a bondman ere you die and you shall lose your territory and your race will be a servile one." To another of those who led him by the hand he said:"What moved you to drag me by the hand from my own monastery?"

Punishment probablycertainly not laboris the leading object in the one case as well as the other: and the labor of the bondman in the one, as well as of the convict in the other, constitutes but a subordinate consideration.

If the servant was a slave, because he was called by the Hebrew word rendered "bondman," then was Jacob a slave also:and even still greater absurdities could be deduced from the position.

"Behold my servant (bondman, slave?) whom I have chosen, mine elect in whom my soul delighteth."

We separate from them not in anger, not in malice, not for a selfish purpose, not to do them an injury, not to cease warning, exhorting, reproving them for their crimes, not to leave the perishing bondman to his fateO no!

Does he in principle require us to sympathize with the bondman as another self; and permit us in practice to leave him unpitied and unhelped in the hands of the oppressor?

The appeal of the kneeling bondman, "Am I not a man and a brother," must here have met with a prompt and powerful response.

"Behold my servant (bondman, slave?) whom I have chosen, mine elect in whom my soul delighteth."

"Behold my servant (bondman, slave?) whom I uphold."

Strange or not, their fate was inseparably linked with that of the bondman, their interests were considered as involved with his.

At that age Alma Warbeck promised little charm, and the photograph allowed her less; but it was then that Thomas Bird became her bondman, as he had ever since remained.

will;but do not mock the bondman in his misery, by giving him a Bible when he cannot read it.

When the indenture was executed, he committed his bondman to prison, for safe-keeping, until he was ready to leave the city.

But instead of keeping his agreement honorably, he went to that city several weeks before the specified time, watched for his bondman, seized him, and conveyed him to Friend Hopper's office.

" After considerable discussion, Friend Hopper urged him to allow his bondman until ten o'clock next morning, to see what could be done among his friends; and he himself gave a written obligation that the man should be delivered up to him at that hour, in case he could not procure five hundred dollars to purchase his freedom.

" "I will do anything for freedom," replied the bondman; "for I have made up my mind, come what may, that I never will go back into slavery.

The nation had decreed that they should all have equal rights with the older States and with one another, and yet that they should remain forever inseparable from the Union; and above all, it had been settled that the bondman should be unknown within their borders.

[Footnote B: Compare Massinger, 'The Bondman', act I. scene iii.