The Atlantic Monthly, Volum 30Atlantic Monthly Company, 1872 |
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Pàgina 7
... believe that his first ancestor came over at a somewhat earlier date When this important business was over , the doctor and his guest sat down again in his laboratory , where the former took care to have his usual companion , the black ...
... believe that his first ancestor came over at a somewhat earlier date When this important business was over , the doctor and his guest sat down again in his laboratory , where the former took care to have his usual companion , the black ...
Pàgina 14
my share , I believe , - hard toil in the wilderness , hunger , extreme weariness , pinching cold , the torture of a wound , peril of death ; and really I have been as happy through it as ever I was at my mother's cosey fireside of a ...
my share , I believe , - hard toil in the wilderness , hunger , extreme weariness , pinching cold , the torture of a wound , peril of death ; and really I have been as happy through it as ever I was at my mother's cosey fireside of a ...
Pàgina 21
... believe that his reputation was concerned , since it would remain buried at St. Cyr . The letter threw Ra- cine into great agitation . He wished to please Madame de Maintenon . To refuse was impossible for a courtier , and the ...
... believe that his reputation was concerned , since it would remain buried at St. Cyr . The letter threw Ra- cine into great agitation . He wished to please Madame de Maintenon . To refuse was impossible for a courtier , and the ...
Pàgina 28
... believe you recall it with a sigh ; and the reminiscence emboldens me to ask you whether it would not be still better if our dear Harvard , say ( the steam of the pud- ding infects me through twenty years ) , among the many new wrinkles ...
... believe you recall it with a sigh ; and the reminiscence emboldens me to ask you whether it would not be still better if our dear Harvard , say ( the steam of the pud- ding infects me through twenty years ) , among the many new wrinkles ...
Pàgina 39
... believe they have . " It was he who in the Constitu- tional Convention of 1787 set his face - against all compromise with slavery , and avowed the opinion that the South- ern States ought not to be admitted to the Union unless they ...
... believe they have . " It was he who in the Constitu- tional Convention of 1787 set his face - against all compromise with slavery , and avowed the opinion that the South- ern States ought not to be admitted to the Union unless they ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 287 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Pàgina 249 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Pàgina 249 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal.
Pàgina 287 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
Pàgina 335 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Pàgina 28 - Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.
Pàgina 35 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Pàgina 249 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and -thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Pàgina 30 - There are at this time in the adjacent county not less than five or six well-meaning men in close jail for publishing their religious sentiments, which in the main are very orthodox.
Pàgina 369 - I find the general fate of humanity here most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation, offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil.