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Des Moines County, Iowa Anti-Slavery Society minutes and declarations, 1844-1845
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she is. While conversant with [us?] still waxing or waning, and never content with in one [stg.?] and each are all [illegible] things exposed to perpetual vicissitudes How often have the faint echoes of fame and renown slept in silence, or have been converted into the clamors of [obloquy?]. Consider the uncertainty of fortune, and the transitory beauty of nature. have not riches confessed their notorious character a thousand [&?] a thousand times Ether melting away like snow in your hands by insensible degrees or leaping like a winged prisoner from its cage with a precipitate flight. But its [little?] more dreadful to consider, that the powers of the mind are equally liable to change that understanding may make its apperance and then instantly depart that it may blaze and expire, [you?]
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she is. While conversant with [us?] still waxing or waning, and never content with in one [stg.?] and each are all [illegible] things exposed to perpetual vicissitudes How often have the faint echoes of fame and renown slept in silence, or have been converted into the clamors of [obloquy?]. Consider the uncertainty of fortune, and the transitory beauty of nature. have not riches confessed their notorious character a thousand [&?] a thousand times Ether melting away like snow in your hands by insensible degrees or leaping like a winged prisoner from its cage with a precipitate flight. But its [little?] more dreadful to consider, that the powers of the mind are equally liable to change that understanding may make its apperance and then instantly depart that it may blaze and expire, [you?]
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