As Jerome expanded, its chances for the title, "the toughest little town in the West," increased and when it was incorporated in 1...899 the citizens were able to support the claim by pointing to the number of thick stone shutters on the fronts of all saloons, gambling halls, and other places of business for protection against gunfire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, ...the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are; Hermes, Cadmus, Columbus, Newton, Bonaparte, are the mind's ministers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men found that his absorbing egotism was deadly to all other men. It resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks ...on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers; and the animal inflicts new and more violent shocks, until he paralyzes and kills his victim. So, this exorbitant egotist narrowed, impoverished, and absorbed the power and existence of those who served him; and the universal cry of France, and of Europe, in 1814, was, "enough of him;" "assez de Bonaparte."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good ...player.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell,... The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We declare therefore, we declare simply this, that on the 20th of December, 1851,... M. Bonaparte put his hand into every man's co...nscience, and robbed every man of his vote. Others filch handkerchiefs, he steals an Empire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The other evening I was determined that I would silence this shallow din; that I would walk in various directions and see if there... was not to be found any depth of silence around. As Bonaparte sent out his horsemen in the Red Sea on all sides to find shallow water, so I sent forth my mounted thoughts to find deep water. I left the village and paddled up the river to Fair Haven Pond. As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seemed to strain and purify the air, and I was smoothed with an infinite stillness. I got the world, as it were, by the nape of the neck, and held it under in the tide of its own events, till it was drowned, and then I let it go down-stream like a dead dog. Vast hollow chambers of silence stretched away on every side, and my being expanded in proportion, and filled them. Then first could I appreciate sound, and find it musical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," wi...th as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerfu...l valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »