Liberty and a Living: The Record of an Attempt to Secure Bread and Butter, Sunshine and Content, by Gardening, Fishing, and HuntingG.P. Putnam's sons, 1889 - 239 pàgines |
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Liberty and a Living: The Record of an Attempt to Secure Bread and Butter ... Philip Gengembre Hubert Visualització completa - 1904 |
Liberty and a Living: The Record of an Attempt to Secure Bread and Butter ... Philip Gengembre Hubert Visualització completa - 1891 |
Liberty and a Living: The Record of an Attempt to Secure Bread and Butter ... Philip Gengembre Hubert Visualització completa - 1889 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 185 - It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Pàgina 188 - I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name— if ten honest men only— ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America.
Pàgina 186 - To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Pàgina 188 - Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Pàgina 208 - As this business was to be entered into without the usual capital, it may not be easy to conjecture where those means, that will still be indispensable to every such 'undertaking, were to be obtained. As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.
Pàgina 187 - I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts, and not wait till they constitute a majority of one, before they suffer the right to prevail through them. I think that it is enough if they have God on their side, without waiting for that other one. Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
Pàgina 210 - It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. Could you, in such a case, tell surely of any company of civilized men, which belonged to the most respected class? When Madam Pfeiffer, in her adventurous travels round the world, from east to west, had got so near home as Asiatic Russia, she says that she felt the necessity of wearing other than a travelling dress, when she went to meet the authorities, for she "was now in a civilized...
Pàgina 173 - He was bred to no profession; he never married; he lived alone; he never went to church; he never voted; he refused to pay a tax to the State; he ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he never knew the use of tobacco; and, though a naturalist, he used neither trap nor gun.
Pàgina 211 - I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Pàgina 212 - They do not make them so now," not emphasizing the "They" at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates,4 and I find it difficult to get made what I want, simply because she cannot believe that I mean what I say, that I am so rash. When I hear this oracular sentence, I am for a moment absorbed in thought...