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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

Equipped with this small sum and the earnestness that the undertaking implied, he came to Williams College when Dr. Mark Hopkins was president.†
Chpt Intr.

To the formation of Mr. Washington's character, then, went the missionary zeal of New England, influenced by one of the strongest personalities in modern education, and the wide-reaching moral earnestness of General Armstrong himself These influences are easily recognizable in Mr. Washington to-day by men who knew Dr. Hopkins and General Armstrong.†
Chpt Intr.

These were the ambitious youths of the race, at work with an earnestness that put to shame the conventional student life of most educational institutions.†
Chpt Intr.

I think that no man of our generation has a more noteworthy achievement to his credit than this; and it is an achievement of moral earnestness of the strong character of a man who has done a great national service.†
Chpt Intr.

I applied myself with greater earnestness than ever to the mastering of what was in the "blue-back" speller.†
Chpt 2

The General would usually pay a visit to the tents early in the morning, and his earnest, cheerful, encouraging voice would dispel any feeling of despondency.†
Chpt 3

In some way I managed to get on till the teachers learned that I was in earnest and meant to succeed, and then some of them were kind enough to see that I was partly supplied with second-hand clothing that had been sent in barrels from the North.†
Chpt 3

As I now recall the scene of my first year, I do not believe that one often has the opportunity of coming into contact with three or four hundred men and women who were so tremendously in earnest as these men and women were.†
Chpt 3

Many of the older ones were, of course, too old to master the text-books very thoroughly, and it was often sad to watch their struggles; but they made up in earnest much of what they lacked in books.†
Chpt 3

It was my earnest wish to help him to prepare to enter Hampton, and to save money to assist him in his expenses there.†
Chpt 4

While among those two classes there were many capable, earnest, godly men and women, still a large proportion took up teaching or preaching as an easy way to make a living.†
Chpt 5

The reputation that I made as a speaker during this campaign induced a number of persons to make an earnest effort to get me to enter political life, but I refused, still believing that I could find other service which would prove of more permanent value to my race.†
Chpt 6

General Armstrong had found out that there was quite a number of young coloured men and women who were intensely in earnest in wishing to get an education, but who were prevented from entering Hampton Institute because they were too poor to be able to pay any portion of the cost of their board, or even to supply themselves with books.†
Chpt 6

At the beginning of this school there were about twelve strong, earnest men and women who entered the class.†
Chpt 6

They were so much in earnest that only the ringing of the retiring-bell would make them stop studying, and often they would urge me to continue the lessons after the usual hour for going to bed had come.†
Chpt 6

These students showed so much earnestness, both in their hard work during the day, as well as in their application to their studies at night, that I gave them the name of "The Plucky Class"—a name which soon grew popular and spread throughout the institution.†
Chpt 6

I did find, though, that which no costly building and apparatus can supply,—hundreds of hungry, earnest souls who wanted to secure knowledge.†
Chpt 7

I recall that one man, who seemed to have been designated by the others to look after my political destiny, came to me on several occasions and said, with a good deal of earnestness: "We wants you to be sure to vote jes' like we votes.†
Chpt 7

The white people, as well as the coloured, were greatly interested in the starting of the new school, and the opening day was looked forward to with much earnest discussion.†
Chpt 8

Notwithstanding what I have said about them in these respects, I have never seen a more earnest and willing company of young men and women than these students were.†
Chpt 8

I recall that one morning, when I told an old coloured man who lived near, and who sometimes helped me, that our school had grown so large that it would be necessary for us to use the hen-house for school purposes, and that I wanted him to help me give it a thorough cleaning out the next day, he replied, in the most earnest manner: "What you mean, boss?†
Chpt 8

After earnest and constant work in the interests of the school, together with her housekeeping duties, my wife passed away in May, 1884.†
Chpt 9

From the first, my wife most earnestly devoted her thoughts and time to the work of the school, and was completely one with me in every interest and ambition.†
Chpt 9

This man not only refused to give me the letter, but advised me most earnestly to go back home at once, and not make any attempt to get money, for he was quite sure that I would never get more than enough to pay my travelling expenses.†
Chpt 10

But gradually, with patience and hard work, we brought order out of chaos, just as will be true of any problem if we stick to it with patience and wisdom and earnest effort.†
Chpt 10

When I went into the smoking-room I was never more surprised in my life than when each man, nearly every one of them a citizen of Georgia, came up and introduced himself to me and thanked me earnestly for the work that I was trying to do for the whole South.†
Chpt 11

While I cannot recall in detail what I said, I remember that I tried to impress upon the committee, with all the earnestness and plainness of any language that I could command, that if Congress wanted to do something which would assist in ridding the South of the race question and making friends between the two races, it should, in every proper way, encourage the material and intellectual growth of both races.†
Chpt 13

The roar might swell ever so high, but the expression of his earnest face never changed.†
Chpt 15

My youngest child, Earnest Davidson Washington, says that he is going to be a physician.†
Chpt 16

It is an inspiring sight when one stands on the platform there and sees before him eleven or twelve hundred earnest young men and women; and one cannot but feel that it is a privilege to help to guide them to a higher and more useful life.†
Chpt 16

In point of morality and moral earnestness I do not believe that the French are ahead of my own race in America.†
Chpt 16

The average Englishman is so serious, and is so tremendously in earnest about everything, that when I told a story that would have made an American audience roar with laughter, the Englishmen simply looked me straight in the face without even cracking a smile.†
Chpt 16

In view of the foregoing, we earnestly invite you to share the hospitality of our city upon your return from Europe, and give us the opportunity to hear you and put ourselves in touch with your work in a way that will be most gratifying to yourself, and that we may receive the inspiration of your words and presence.†
Chpt 16

At the end of his visit I resolved anew to devote myself more earnestly than ever to the cause which was so near his heart.†
Chpt 17

the men and women who come to us for an education are in earnest;
Chpt 17 *

in earnest = serious

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Definition:

(earnest)
characterized by sincere belief

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intensely or excessively serious or determined