It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages o...ur interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englis...hman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimism ... it was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and most ...original, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »