That campaign was the supreme effort of a brave people to save themselves and their posterity from the blighting ruin of black supremacy.
In like manner the spirits can injure a man by thwarting his plans, for example, by frightening away the fish, blighting the fruits of the fields, and so forth.
He is then reminded of Job's character--how that this saint is perfect and just; Satan's blighting influence has not been able to touch and overthrow the aged Job.
By keeping close to God, and keeping ourselves unspotted from the world, we may stay his blighting touch from personal contact; but there seems to be no absolute safety until we are shielded by the "whole armour of God.
We are not assembled, therefore, fellow-citizens, as men overwhelmed with calamity by the sudden disruption of the ties of friendship or affection, or as in despair for the republic by the untimely blighting of its hopes.
Does the blighting influence of Popery reply to the two-fold query?
The agony was too recent,--the blighting of all her hopes too sudden for resignation and peace to come into her soul at once.
With the night-wind, Over field and farm and forest, Lonely homestead, darksome hamlet, Blighting all we breathe upon!
Altogether the place is a very miserable one, and is evidently withering under the blighting curse of the slave-trade.
Unnatural poverty is bad, blighting the soul of man; and unnatural riches are likewise bad, equally blighting the soul of man.
If pity for Franklin had edged her voice, pity for Althea must keep from her theblighting knowledge of Franklin's sacrifice.
And whence this blighting cloud, that seems To wither all thy better powers?
It may be said that the very fate of these aspirations has had a blighting effect on public enthusiasm and the capacity of feeling it.
She was growing into quite a serene and hopeful frame when the miserable and blighting facts all broke upon her.
All that once gave out so much hope, so much joy, now withers before the blighting sting of misfortune.
He never made one man's life to be sorrow and fear-to be the basest object, upon which blighting strife for gold fills the passions of tyrants.
Maxwell is her friend; he has witnessed the blighting power of slavery-not alone in its workings upon the black man, but upon the lineal offspring of freemen-and has resolved to work against its mighty arm.
Men are not persistently dwarfed now by deliberate efforts to define a blighting consciousness of weakness; they are stimulated to broader effort and higher purpose by a true self-consciousness of individual power.
Coercion does not always destroy power by blighting it.
These are blighting words, and they fall from a writer of great authority, yet liable to the suspicion of occasionally labouring, however unconsciously, under political bias.
In these grandiose structures they cherished a blighting etiquette, and led lives as dull as those of the aged and torpid carp in their own stew-ponds.
Who have debased me in the minds of men, Debarring me the usage of my own, Blighting my life in best of its career, Branding my thoughts as things to shun and fear?
It was as if he had been smitten with a blighting disease that had suddenly turned the joyous sense of young life into pain.
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