These principles, whenever they have been freely acted on, the Princeton professor admits, have abolished domestic bondage.

He sees a proud and haughty nation, whose Congressmen yearly meet to plot his ruin and perpetuate his bondage!

She has broken the bondage of the Middle Ages, and she has broken it by prayer.

A shimmering tress of hair had escaped its bondage; that was all they saw.

She had seen so much error among the popular religious denominations and had felt such bondage when meeting with them, that she worshiped with a few spiritual people in a little prayer-meeting.

They soon discovered the cruel bondage in which they were involved.

And it hath likewise been the continual care of many weighty friends to press those who bear our name, to guard, as much as possible, against being in any respect concerned in promoting the bondage of such unhappy people.

It is true, that they would have them manumitted immediately:for they believe slavery is sin, and that therefore the slaveholder has no right to protract the bondage of his slaves for a single year, or for a single day or hour;not even, were he to do so to afford them "a moral preparation" for freedom, or to accomplish any other of the kindest and best purposes.

The three hundred and fifty-three South Carolina gentlemen, to whom I have referred, admit, that even "the old negro man, whose head is white with age, raises his thoughts to look through the vista which will terminate his bondage.

"But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty?"

Could I change this gilded bondage Even for the dusky tower, Whence King James beheld his lady Sitting in the castle bower; Birds around her sweetly singing, Fluttering on the kindling spray, And the comely garden glowing

It seems that God was both, when dealing with this royal slaveholder:for He commanded Pharaoh, not to mitigate the bondage of the Israelites, but to deliver them from itand that, too, immediately.

It permeated her whole being like an overpowering essence, so that she forgot the seven dreary years that separated her from her girlhood, forgot the bondage to which she was returning, the constant, ever-increasing anxiety that wrought

Madeline waited, only waited,with a fierceness so dangerously still that it looked like patience,hated her insulting bondage, but waited, like Samson between the pillars upon which the house of Dagon stood, resolved to free herself, though she dragged down the edifice and were crushed among the wreck.

Their yesterdays held bondage, blows and degradation; their tomorrow held only the desert and the return to a ruined land.

The proposition is not what a woman or two in her down-trodden state may have exceptionally effected, but her natural equality, and in fact superiority, in all but the physical strength which has imposed an unjust bondage on the higher nature.

Those women around me are my servants and I lighten their bondage by every indulgence in my power; and I, who am your slave, O Emperor of the World, am willing to dress according to your pleasure and not my own.

Saxon and Dane, the folk of Ireland and Norway, Saracen and pagan, each and all of them who hated Arthur and loathed his bondage, Mordred entreated to his aid.

He had been too long a slave to money to loose the bondage immediately.

In August, 1859, she wrote: "I have lost that weary bondage of doubt and almost despair which chained me for so many years.

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed and hawked at, and torn, till if its framers could rise from their graves they could not at all recognize it.

It not only aimed at a purer life, but it opposed the bondage of the Middle Ages, and all the superstitions and puerilities and fables which were born and nurtured in that dark and gloomy period and to which the clergy clung as a means of power or wealth.

She had refused two offers of marriage, preferring the bondage and the exile that she knew.

Assemblies of veterans of the Confederacy and those who address them scout the idea that they fought to preserve negro bondage.

The orthodox clergyman, the orthodox physician, and orthodox matrimonyall these alike represent social bondage in different forms, and he will have none of them So he starts on a career of 'unchartered freedom' 'To prove that he alone was king of him,' and the last scene of all represents him the weak slave of his mistress, a quack doctor, and a revivalist'which things are an allegory.'