... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have it ...for her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Hall, of Sherborne, was brought to bed yesterday of a dead child, some weeks before she was expected, owing to a... fright. I suppose that she happened unawares to look at her husband.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not lived; for life doth her great actions spell, By what was done and wrought... In season, and so brought To light: her measures are, how well Each syllab'e answered, and was formed how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religio...n. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyr...anny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. But almost all say that such is not the case now. But such was the case, they think, in the Revolution of '75. If one were to tell me that this was a bad government because it taxed certain foreign commodities brought to its ports, it is most probable that I should not make an ado about it, for I can do without them. All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counterbalance the evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer. In other words, when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ordinary People ... are so used to be dazled [sic] with Riches, that they pay as much Deference to the Understanding of a Man of a...n Estate, as of a Man of Learning; and are very hardly brought to regard any Truth, how important soever it may be, that is preached to them, when they know there are several Men of five hundred a Year who do not believe it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been b...rought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why th...e writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »