The Atlantic Monthly, Volum 30Atlantic Monthly Company, 1872 |
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Pàgina 12
... course , had put it away in some safe place or other , either in cellar or gar- ret , no doubt ; so Septimius , in the intervals of his other occupations , de- voted several days to the search ; and , not to weary the reader with the ...
... course , had put it away in some safe place or other , either in cellar or gar- ret , no doubt ; so Septimius , in the intervals of his other occupations , de- voted several days to the search ; and , not to weary the reader with the ...
Pàgina 16
... course , with the continued posses- sion of an estate . I must be , of ne- cessity , a wanderer on the face of the earth , changing place at short intervals , disappearing suddenly and entirely ; else the foolish , short - lived ...
... course , with the continued posses- sion of an estate . I must be , of ne- cessity , a wanderer on the face of the earth , changing place at short intervals , disappearing suddenly and entirely ; else the foolish , short - lived ...
Pàgina 39
... course . But posterity cares only for the party that triumphs , — the radical party , the party in the right . In his own day , the conservative usually is , and usually ought to be , uppermost ; he represents the human family , which ...
... course . But posterity cares only for the party that triumphs , — the radical party , the party in the right . In his own day , the conservative usually is , and usually ought to be , uppermost ; he represents the human family , which ...
Pàgina 53
... course of action , and cannot be turned from it . We cannot give him up to die alone ; we must stand by him . I will raise so many hundred dollars for him ; you must lay the case before your friends in Massachusetts and see if they will ...
... course of action , and cannot be turned from it . We cannot give him up to die alone ; we must stand by him . I will raise so many hundred dollars for him ; you must lay the case before your friends in Massachusetts and see if they will ...
Pàgina 55
... course of action so immediately hazardous . He then argued that it would strike great terror into the whole slaveholding class to find that an armed force had strength enough to capture a place so important and so near Wash- ington ...
... course of action so immediately hazardous . He then argued that it would strike great terror into the whole slaveholding class to find that an armed force had strength enough to capture a place so important and so near Wash- ington ...
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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.