According to the historian, they escaped as by a miracle all roving bands of Indians, and reached their homes in safety, with thei...r trophies, for which the General Court paid them fifty pounds. The family of Hannah Dustan all assembled alive once more, except the infant whose brains were dashed out against the apple tree, and there have been many who in later time have lived to say that they have eaten of the fruit of that apple tree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such is the boasted chivalry of the Land of Freedom, which has left its women to strive against tradition, prejudice, conservatism..., self-interest, political power and in addition all the forces of corruption combined, to secure the privilege which was conferred upon vast numbers of men who never even demanded it and many of whom knew nothing of its significance after it was granted. I claim, and fear no contradiction, that the women of this land are better qualified to exercise the suffrage with intelligence, honesty and patriotism than were any other class of citizens in the world at the time when it was conferred upon them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a f...ox.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is his weakness to be proud: he derives, from a comparison of his own extraordinary mind with the dwarfish intellects that surr...ound him, an intense apprehension of the nothingness of human life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ghost of the heart of manred Cain And the more murderous brain... Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death Of his mother Earth, and tore Her womb, to know the place where he was conceived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both Hopkins and Lawrence were religious not just in the ritualistic sense but in the sense of being obsessed with the word--the w...ord made life and truth--with the need to invent a language as direct as religious utterance. Both were poets, but outside the literary fashions of their time. Both felt that among the poets of their time was an absorption in literary manners, fashions and techniques which separated the line of the writing from that of religious truth. Both felt that the modern situation imposed on them the necessity to express truth by means of a different kind of poetic writing from that used in past or present. Both found themselves driven into writing in a way which their contemporaries did not understand or respond to yet was inevitable to each in his pursuit of truth. Here of course there is a difference between Hopkins and Lawrence, because Hopkins in his art was perhaps over-worried, over-conscientious, whereas Lawrence was an instinctive poet who, in his concern for truth, understood little of the problems of poetic form, although he held strong views about them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence. Corr. Individual things are nothin...g but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of th...e race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »