1 Fat Reuben's little chubby girl came, with golden face and old-gold hair, faithful and solemn.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In IV 2 I loved my school, and the fine faith the children had in the wisdom of their teacher was truly marvellous.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In IV 3 With all his laziness and lack of many elements of true manhood, he was at least open-hearted, faithful, and sincere.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In X 4 Sometimes it is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In XIV 5 The faith of these two leading denominations was more suited to the slave church from the prominence they gave to religious feeling and fervor.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In X 6 First, it became almost entirely Baptist and Methodist in faith; secondly, as a social institution it antedated by many decades the monogamic Negro home.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In X 7 They have seldom been agitators, have withstood the temptation to head the mob, and have worked steadily and faithfully in a thousand communities in the South.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VI 8 She seemed to be the centre of the family: always busy at service, or at home, or berry-picking; a little nervous and inclined to scold, like her mother, yet faithful, too, like her father.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In IV 9 But Mr. Washington first indissolubly linked these things; he put enthusiasm, unlimited energy, and perfect faith into his programme, and changed it from a by-path into a veritable Way of Life.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In III 10 An honest man, with too much faith in human nature, little aptitude for business and intricate detail, he had had large opportunity of becoming acquainted at first hand with much of the work before him.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In II 11 Conscious of his impotence, and pessimistic, he often becomes bitter and vindictive; and his religion, instead of a worship, is a complaint and a curse, a wail rather than a hope, a sneer rather than a faith.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In X 12 Away back in the days of bondage they thought to see in one divine event the end of all doubt and disappointment; few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In I 13 Up the new path the advance guard toiled, slowly, heavily, doggedly; only those who have watched and guided the faltering feet, the misty minds, the dull understandings, of the dark pupils of these schools know how faithfully, how piteously, this people strove to learn.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In I 14 So dawned the time of Sturm und Drang: storm and stress to-day rocks our little boat on the mad waters of the world-sea; there is within and without the sound of conflict, the burning of body and rending of soul; inspiration strives with doubt, and faith with vain questionings.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In I 15 On the other hand, the masters and the masters' sons have never been able to see why the Negro, instead of settling down to be day-laborers for bread and clothes, are infected with a silly desire to rise in the world, and why they are sulky, dissatisfied, and careless, where their fathers were happy and dumb and faithful.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VIII 16 From the very circumstances of its beginning, the church was confined to the plantation, and consisted primarily of a series of disconnected units; although, later on, some freedom of movement was allowed, still this geographical limitation was always important and was one cause of the spread of the decentralized and democratic Baptist faith among the slaves.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In X 17 These black thousands are not in reality lazy; they are improvident and careless; they insist on breaking the monotony of toil with a glimpse at the great town-world on Saturday; they have their loafers and their rascals; but the great mass of them work continuously and faithfully for a return, and under circumstances that would call forth equal voluntary effort from few if any other modern laboring class.
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