We went on, feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the soldier, binding up his wounds, harboring the stranger, ...visiting the sick, ministering to the prisoner, and burying the dead, until that blessed day at Appomattox Court House relieved the strain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My tendency to nervousness in my younger days, in view of the fact of a number of near relatives on both my father's and mother's ...side of the house having become insane, gave some serious uneasiness. I made up my mind to overcome it.... In the cross-examination of witnesses before a crowded court-house ... I soon found I could control myself even in the worst of testing cases. Finally, in battle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
here at midnight, in our little town A mourning figure walks, and will not rest,... Near the old court-house pacing up and down,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Again it happens that the Boston Court-House is full of armed men, holding prisoner and trying a MAN, to find out if he is not rea...lly a SLAVE. Does anyone think that justice or God awaits Mr. Loring's decision? For him to sit there deciding still, when this question is already decided from eternity to eternity, and the unlettered slave himself and the multitude around have long since heard and assented to the decision, is simply to make himself ridiculous.... Such an arbiter's very existence is an impertinence. We do not ask him to make up his mind, but to make up his pack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Finding that my fellow-citizens were not likely to offer me any room in the court house, or any curacy or living anywhere else, bu...t I must shift for myself, I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known. I determined to go into business at once, and not wait to acquire the usual capital, using such slender means as I had already got. My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there, but to transact some private business with the fewest obstacles; to be hindered from accomplishing which for want of a little common sense, a little enterprise and business talent, appeared not so sad as foolish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"In 1665 the Court passed a law to inflict corporal punishment on all persons, who resided in the towns of this government, who de...nied the Scriptures." Think of a man being whipped on a spring morning, till he was constrained to confess that the Scriptures were true! "It was also voted by the town, that all persons who should stand out of the meeting-house during the time of divine service should be set in the stocks." It behooved such a town to see that sitting in the meeting-house was nothing akin to sitting in the stocks, lest the penalty of obedience to the law might be greater than that of disobedience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nouns of number, or multitude, such as Mob, Parliament, Rabble, House of Commons, Regiment, Court of King's Bench, Den of Thieves,... and the like.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar th...e way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »