I wonder what subtle form of manslaughter is next on the program. Am I to be dropped into a vat of molten steel and become part of... a new skyscraper, or are you going to ask this female to kiss me again and poison me to death?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The track of a full-grown moose is like that of a cow, or larger, and of the young, like that of a calf.... Though numerous, they ...are so wary that the unskillful hunter might range the forest a long time before he could get sight of one. They are sometimes dangerous to encounter, and will not turn out for the hunter, but furiously rush upon him and trample him to death, unless he is lucky enough to avoid them by dodging round a tree. The largest are nearly as large as a horse, and weigh sometimes one thousand pounds.... They are described as exceedingly awkward-looking animals, with their long legs and short bodies, making a ludicrous figure when in full run, but making great headway, nevertheless. It seemed a mystery to us how they could thread these woods, which it required all our suppleness to accomplish,--climbing, stooping, and winding, alternately.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifference ...to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,... And subdivide, and never come to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, an...d those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel qu...ite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...here he is, fully alive, and it is hard to picture him fully dead. Death is thirty-three hours away and here we are talking abo...ut the brain size of birds and bloodhounds and hunting in the woods. You can only attend to death for so long before the life force sucks you right in again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I N take thee M to my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in s...ickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I give thee my troth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dost thou ask what I mean by emancipation?... 1. It is "to reject with indignation, the wile and guilty phantasy, that man can hol...d property in man." 2. To pay the laborer his hire, for he is worthy of it. 3. No longer to deny him the right of marriage, but to "let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband," as saith the apostle. 4. To let parents have their own children, for they are the gift of the Lord to them, and no one else has any right to them. 5. No longer to withhold the advantages of education and the privilege of reading the bible. 6. To put the slave under the protection of equitable laws. Now, why should not all this be done immediately? Which of these things is to be done next year, and which the year after? and so on. Our immediate emancipation means, doing justice and loving mercy to-day--and this is what we call upon every slaveholder to do. I have seen too much of slavery to be a gradualist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our jud...gments have dwindled down to a point.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »