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“But our captain counts the image of God--nevertheless his image--cut in ebony as if done in ivory, and in the blackest Moors he sees the representation of the King of Heaven.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b15065a57d4decaf28ab61939bd7f4ef99c29972deb415a44a137bbe304967ba
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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