The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and ...occasion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The women, who had congregated in the groves, set up the most violent clamors, as they invariably do here as elsewhere on every oc...casion of excitement and alarm, with a view of tranquilizing their own minds and disturbing other people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the ri...ght of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to disappear, and go int...o his hole like the seventeen-year locust, in an ever-shabby coat, though finer than the farmer's best, yet never dressed.... He especially is the creature of the occasion. He empties both his pockets and his character into the stream, and swims in such a day. He dearly loves the social slush. There is no reserve of soberness in him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch, and fills the whole... Country with extravagant Fancies, imaginary Distempers, and terrifying Dreams. In the mean time, the poor Wretch that is the innocent Occasion of so many Evils begins to be frighted at her self, and sometimes confesses secret Commerces and Familiarities that her Imagination forms in a delirious old Age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But among all our Methods of moving Pity or Terror, there is none so absurd and barbarous, and what more exposes us to the Contemp...t and Ridicule of our Neighbours, than that dreadful butchering of one another, which is so very frequent upon the English Stage. To delight in seeing Men stabbed, poisoned, racked, or impaled, is certainly the Sign of a cruel Temper: And as this is often practised before the British Audience, several French Criticks, who think these are grateful Spectacles to us, take Occasion from them to represent us a People that delight in Blood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first general store opened on the 'Cold Saturday' of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store's promoter..., recorded in a letter: 'Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets'; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call it...self fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance--that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
True love never goes without respect; and its counterfeit is often obliged to feign it, till an occasion serves to throw it out of... the windows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »