The Atlantic Monthly, Volum 30Atlantic Monthly Company, 1872 |
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Pàgina 5
... remained waiting for his prey . Sep- timius wondered whether the doctor was symbolized by the spider , and was likewise waiting in the middle of his web for his prey . As he saw no way , however , in which the doctor could make a profit ...
... remained waiting for his prey . Sep- timius wondered whether the doctor was symbolized by the spider , and was likewise waiting in the middle of his web for his prey . As he saw no way , however , in which the doctor could make a profit ...
Pàgina 12
... remained un- opened , till itself was lost . But now Septimius , putting together what Aunt Keziah had said in her dying moments , and what Doctor Port- soaken had insisted upon , suddenly came to the conclusion that the pos- session of ...
... remained un- opened , till itself was lost . But now Septimius , putting together what Aunt Keziah had said in her dying moments , and what Doctor Port- soaken had insisted upon , suddenly came to the conclusion that the pos- session of ...
Pàgina 40
... remained friends and political allies for fifty years . A leader on the conservative side was R. C. Nicholas , for many years the head of the bar in Virginia , a stanch Churchman and gentleman - of - the - old school . But Jefferson ...
... remained friends and political allies for fifty years . A leader on the conservative side was R. C. Nicholas , for many years the head of the bar in Virginia , a stanch Churchman and gentleman - of - the - old school . But Jefferson ...
Pàgina 41
... remained in force which made it penal to deny the Trinity , and de- prived a parent of the custody of his children if he could not subscribe to the leading articles of the Episcopal creed . We have come now to regard liberty of belief ...
... remained in force which made it penal to deny the Trinity , and de- prived a parent of the custody of his children if he could not subscribe to the leading articles of the Episcopal creed . We have come now to regard liberty of belief ...
Pàgina 41
... remained friends and political allies for fifty years . A leader on the conservative side was R. C. Nicholas , for many years the head of the bar in Virginia , a stanch Churchman and gentleman - of - the - old school . But Jefferson ...
... remained friends and political allies for fifty years . A leader on the conservative side was R. C. Nicholas , for many years the head of the bar in Virginia , a stanch Churchman and gentleman - of - the - old school . But Jefferson ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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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.