Two more contrabands yesterday. These runaways are bright fellows. As a body they are superior to the average of the uneducated wh...ite population of this State. More intelligent, I feel confident. What a good-for-nothing people the mass of these western Virginians are! Unenterprising, lazy, narrow, listless, and ignorant. Careless of consequences to the country if their own lives and property are safe. Slavery leaves one class, the wealthy, with leisure for cultivation. They are usually intelligent, well-bred, brave, and high-spirited. The rest are serfs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the... fighter? All, all, are sleeping on the hill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, Rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys,... Advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, Retreating to the corner of arm and knee, Eager to be reassured, taking pleasure In the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the e...nd of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And they lie like wedges, Thick end to thin end and thin end to thick end,... And are a figure of the way the strong Of mind and strong of arm should fit together, One thick where one is thin and vice versa.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The verbal poetical texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his ...plays as plays. With Shakespeare it is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or bre...ast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished a...ge he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an ou...tstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »