We looked last time at Saint Peter's declamatory speech in Lycidas, and we spent a lot of time on it.

我们上次读过了圣彼得在“利西达斯“中说的话，花了很长时间研究这段话。

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It is kind of haunting when you think it's only 1831 when he writes this, and that Civil War is still 30 years away: "Slavery brutalizes the black population and debilitates the white.

这段话在人们脑海中挥之不去,因为他写下这段话时才1831年,离开内战爆发还有30年时间,"奴隶制残害了黑人,也削弱了白人

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