Just as I gave the command to charge I felt a stunning blow and found a musket ball had struck my left arm just above the elbow. F...earing that an artery might be cut, I asked a soldier near me to tie my handkerchief above the wound. I soon felt weak, faint, and sick at the stomach. I laid down and was pretty comfortable ... [but] seeing something going wrong and feeling a little easier, I got up and began to give directions about things; but after a few moments, getting very weak, I again laid down. While I was lying down I had considerable talk with a wounded [Confederate] soldier lying near me. I gave him messages for my wife and friends in case I should not get up. We were right friendly and jolly; it was by no means an unpleasant experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Francisco. For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart.... Bernardo. Have you had quiet guard? Francisco. Not a mouse stirring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that da...y. I have never for one moment lost faith. It will come but I shall not see it ... it is inevitable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph....... Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Professor Bloom is a finished example of the new womanly man. His moral nature is simple and lovable. Many have found him a dear m...an, a dear person. He is a rather quaint fellow on the whole, coy though not feebleminded in the medical sense. He has written a really beautiful letter, a poem in itself, to the court missionary of the Reformed Priests' Protection Society which clears up everything. He is practically a total abstainer and I can affirm that he sleeps on a straw litter and eats the most Spartan food, cold dried grocer's peas. He wears a hairshirt of pure Irish manufacture winter and summer and scourges himself every Saturday. He was, I understand, at one time a firstclass misdemeanant in Glencree reformatory. Another report states that he was a very posthumous child. I appeal for clemency in the name of the most sacred word our vocal organs have ever been called upon to speak. He is about to have a baby.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fo...ld: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you ... take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was... at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »