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  • Prayer For The Slave & Other Poems

    by John Pierpoint ...
    John Pierpoint was born in 1785 in Litchfield, Connecticut. His career is mainly that of Educator, Pastor and Social Activist. He was particularly strident on Temperance and the abolition of Slavery. Both of these issues caused him to be at odds with entrenched interests but he was not to be deterred and continued the struggle all through his life. After two weeks' service as a 76-year-old ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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    4th Of July A Holiday In Verse, The

    by Thomas Paine, Emma Lazarus, John Pierpoint ...
    Narrated by John Michael MacDonald, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 24 min

    On 29th November 1775 Thomas Jefferson said “Believe me, dear Sir, there is not, in the British Empire, a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made me, I will cease to exist, before I yield to such a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose, and in this I think I speak the sentiments of America”. The War for Independence had ... Read more

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    Poets & Their Trades – Lawyers

    Poems from writers who were also lawyers

    by John Donne, Wallace Stevens, William Cullen Bryant, James Weldon Johnson, Patrick Pearse, Tom Kettle, Thomas Stanley, Herbert Asquith, Jacopone da Todi, John Payne, Owen Seaman, John Pierpoint ...
    Narrated by Nigel Davenport, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley ...

    Unabridged

    The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.In this volume we bring together those professionals we engage to bring the full force of the law to bear where we have ... Read more

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  • The Poetry Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
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  • Poor Richard's Almanack

    by Benjamin Franklin ...
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    by Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten, Henry Neville ...
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  • The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Absurdities of Colonial Maryland in Satirical Epic Poetry

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  • Poems on various subjects, religious and moral

    Enriched edition. Poetic Elegance: Classic Reflections on Faith and Morality in Colonial America

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