Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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against being the sport and plaything of every accident and passion, is not the petulant fretting of a born slave, but the noble lamentation of a captive king...
...rains swell its torrent and burst the barrier; so the will, enslaved by its own surrender, frets impotently in its captivity, until the rain of grace from heaven floods the heart and sets it at liberty. For a free man, because he is free, may make himself a slave; but once a slave, because he is a slave, he cannot make himself free. Perhaps in this way we may be able to reconcile individual liberty with universal law. For if the will, being a spiritual activity, can attach itself, by virtue of its native strength and energy...
...idea of teacher as master, and the pupil as a sort of slave long ago passed away, but there still exists, on the part of the one, the feeling that his efforts are thankless and unappreciated, and on the part of the other, the feeling that he is being instructed by a man, who if he does good work, does it with the view of standing high in educational circles, rather than of benefiting those under his charge. The impressions of both are usually equally false, but they will exist just as long as there is a want of sympathy...
...SCENE 1.MARKET PLACE IN STAMBOUL AND ORIENTAL SLAVE BAZAAR...
...Corsair and his crew - Birbanto resolves (in more senses than one) to strike - Great Sale of wives (beating Smithfield hollow) - Medora, "The Greek Slave" - Startling Situation - Rescue of Lovely Woman in Distress - Elopement of Conrad and Medora...