 | Barbara MacKinnon - 1985 - 710 pàgines
...your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished. But even suppose blood...immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now. and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. I saw... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1992 - 260 pàgines
...your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished. But even suppose blood...immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now. I have contemplated the imprisonment of the offender, rather than the... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - 270 pàgines
...Copernicus, and Washington, which are "historical references to other governments" (B). The passage states, "But even suppose blood should flow. Is there not...sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded?," or "justification for bloodshed" (D). The passage opens with a series of rhetorical questions, which... | |
 | Bob Pepperman Taylor - 1996 - 200 pàgines
...dehumanizing nature: "When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished. But even suppose blood...immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now."73 In "Slavery in Massachusetts" Thoreau is equally unyielding in his... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 524 pàgines
...your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished. But even suppose blood...immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now. I have contemplated the imprisonment of the offender, rather than the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1996 - 220 pàgines
...says sharply enough that slavery justifies rebellion. He prefers a peaceable revolution of nonsupport, "but even suppose blood should flow. Is there not...sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded?" (p. n). As political events became more charged, so did Thoreau's responses. The crucial political... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pàgines
...your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished. But even suppose blood...immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now. . . . I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once... | |
 | Yoram Hazony - 2000 - 352 pàgines
...right to prevail through them. I think that it is enough if they have God on their side — [Ejven suppose blood should flow. Is there not a sort of...immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now." Henry David Thoreau, Carl Bode, ed., The Portable Thoreau (New York:... | |
 | William E. Cain - 2000 - 298 pàgines
...passage that considers that matter explicitly, he accepts the possibility of violence with equanimity: But even suppose blood should flow. Is there not a...sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? ... I see this blood flowing now. (77) This is somewhat evasive — Thoreau does not make clear, though... | |
 | Catherine L. Albanese - 2001 - 550 pàgines
...your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished. But even suppose blood...immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now. I have contemplated the imprisonment of the offender, rather than the... | |
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When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished. But even suppose blood should flow. Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real... 
