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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix no. 2: the work of grace in other armies of the Confederacy. (search)
not fires on stands around the preaching-place. After about ten o'clock at night, the preaching and other exercises at the stand closed; but this was but the beginning of the night's work. As soon as dismissed, the young converts gathered in groups of tens and twenties, and went off in companies into the adjoining woods; and taking their friends, penitents seeking religion, with them, they spent the whole night in singing, praying, and praising God. I had lodgings close by the camp at Mrs. Tooke's, a sister of General Buckner, from which, night after night, at all hours, until morning, I could hear the shouts of the new-born souls and the rejoicing of those who were laboring with them for their salvation. This meeting continued, after this manner, until a large majority of the two brigades were happily converted. Before we had progressed very far, an effort was made by some of the officers to interrupt us by having roll-call observed at nine o'clock. I went to General Parsons,
William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 21: winter of 1863-64. (search)
ot fires on stands around the preaching-place. After about ten o'clock at night, the preaching and other exercises at the stand closed; but this was but the beginning of the night's work. As soon as dismissed, the young converts gathered in groups of tens and twenties, and went off in companies into the adjoining woods; and taking their friends, penitents seeking religion. with them, they spent the whole night in singing, praying, and praising God. I had lodgings close by the camp at Mrs. Tooke's, a sister of Gen. Buckner, from which, night after night, at all hours, until morning, I could hear the shouts of the new-born souls and the rejoicing of those who were laboring with them for their salvation. This meeting continued, after this manner, until a large majority of the two brigades were happily converted. Before we had progressed very far, an effort was made by some of the officers to interrupt us by having roll-call observed at nine o'clock. I went to Gen. Parsons, who w
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country, Water-Lilies (search)
ntalism, we can hardly expect to get out again without some slight entanglement in philology. Lily-pads. Whence pads? No other leaf is identified with that singular monosyllable. Has our floating Lotus-leaf any connection with padding, or with a footpad? with the ambling pad of an abbot, or a paddle, or a paddock, or a padlock? With many-domed Padua proud, or with St. Patrick? Is the name derived from the Anglo-Saxon paad or petthian, or the Greek patew All the etymologists are silent; Tooke and Richardson ignore the problem; and of the innumerable pamphlets in the Worcester and Webster Controversy, loading the tables of schoolcommittee-men, not one ventures to grapple with the lily-pad. But was there ever a philological trouble for which the Sanscrit could not afford at least a conjectural cure? A dictionary of that extremely venerable tongue is an ostrich's stomach, which can crack the hardest etymological nut. The Sanscrit name for the Lotus is simply Padma. The learned B
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 33: (search)
ciety for constitutional information, after a special meeting on the seventh of June, raised a hundred pounds, to be applied, said they, to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the king's troops at Lexington and Concord. Other sums were added; and an account of what had been done was laid before the world by Home Tooke in the Public Advertiser. The publication raised an implacable spirit of revenge. Three printers were fined in consequence one hundred pounds each; and Home was pursued unrelentingly by Thurlow, till in a later year he was convicted be- Chap. Xxxiii} 1775. June. fore Lord Mansfield of a libel, and sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred pounds and to be imprisoned twelve months. Thurlow even asked the judge to punish him with the pillory. It was Hutchinson, whose false information had
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Ordinance of transfer passed by Alabama. (search)
we believe, by the time he learns to read, has no taste for any such books. He likes something stirring — something animated-- something full of action — it may be the action of grown men or giants, but not of children. When the boy gets beyond the nursery, he despises Goody Two Shoes, and Little Bo Peep, and Jack and his Bean, and the whole array of nursery heroes and heroines. He is for stronger food. He is very apt, if he has a turn for books, to take at a tender age to Telemachus, or Tooke's pantheon, or the Iliad and Odyssey by Pope. It is astonishing how many boys read the last-mentioned works with the most eager delight. Not large boys, but little fellows of nine or ten. But of all books, the most captivating to a Virginia boy, is the Life of Washington, with its wood cuts, Braddock and the Indians, Cornwallis and the British army, Washington and the Hessians, &c. We are not ashamed to confess that we read the book, whenever we can get hold of it with infinite zest, fro
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
r animal heat, which has an average temperature of 98 degrees. If it did not do so, if the atmosphere were itself 98 degrees, we should feel it disagreeably warm, and prefer one much lower — say 60 to 65 degrees. How low the temperature of the body may be allowed to sink with impunity, is doubtful, and seems to vary with the individual; the robust and lively man evolving plenty of heat, enjoys a degree of cold which makes a lean, pink-nosed, blue lipped woman, truly a miserable spectacle. Tooke, in his view of the Russian empire, says that drivers and horses suffer no inconvenience with the thermometer at 20--24 degrees below zero, and women stand for four or five hours with their draggled petticoats stiff with ice. There have been noticed, however, some circumstances which would go to show that national hardihood could not be always relied upon; for instance, in the greatest experiment of the effects of cold on man — the French retreat from Russia — the Dutch soldiers of the 3d Re<