1 Meanwhile, I would learn to write.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VII 2 I was put there to learn how to calk.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 3 There was no time to learn any thing.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 4 They came because they wished to learn.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 5 During this time, I succeeded in learning to read and write.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VII 6 After I had learned this, she assisted me in learning to spell words of three or four letters.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VI 7 I had at one time over forty scholars, and those of the right sort, ardently desiring to learn.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 8 I would then make the letters which I had been so fortunate as to learn, and ask him to beat that.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VII 9 In learning to read, I owe almost as much to the bitter opposition of my master, as to the kindly aid of my mistress.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VI 10 I was too young to think of doing so immediately; besides, I wished to learn how to write, as I might have occasion to write my own pass.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VII 11 Some of the slaves of the neighboring farms found what was going on, and also availed themselves of this little opportunity to learn to read.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 12 Henry and John were quite intelligent, and in a very little while after I went there, I succeeded in creating in them a strong desire to learn how to read.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 13 Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VI 14 Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VI 15 But, from some cause or other, he did not send me to Alabama, but concluded to send me back to Baltimore, to live again with his brother Hugh, and to learn a trade.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 16 While I lived with my master in St. Michael's, there was a white young man, a Mr. Wilson, who proposed to keep a Sabbath school for the instruction of such slaves as might be disposed to learn to read the New Testament.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER IX 17 That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought; and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VI 18 That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought; and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VI 19 The idea as to how I might learn to write was suggested to me by being in Durgin and Bailey's ship-yard, and frequently seeing the ship carpenters, after hewing, and getting a piece of timber ready for use, write on the timber the name of that part of the ship for which it was intended.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VII 20 It was necessary to keep our religious masters at St. Michael's unacquainted with the fact, that, instead of spending the Sabbath in wrestling, boxing, and drinking whisky, we were trying to learn how to read the will of God; for they had much rather see us engaged in those degrading sports, than to see us behaving like intellectual, moral, and accountable beings.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X