hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Document | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
View all matching documents... |
Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2. You can also browse the collection for July 8th, 1842 AD or search for July 8th, 1842 AD in all documents.
Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 24 : Slavery and the law of nations.—1842 .—Age, 31 . (search)
July 8, 1842.
After an interval of two days, I return to you, my dear George.
I hope you will not think me cool or unkind in what I have written on the other sheet.
Perhaps I value too much (and yet can anybody value too much?) charity and kindliness in our appreciation of others.
This world is full of harshness.
It is easier to censure than to praise: the former is a gratification of our self-esteem; while to praise seems, with minds too ambitious and ungenerous, a tacit admission of superiority.
It is a bane of society, wherever I have known it,—and here in Boston as much as in London,—a perpetual seeking for something which will disparage or make ridiculous our neighbors.
Their conduct is canvassed, and mean and selfish motives are attributed to them.
Their foibles are dragged into day. I do not boast myself to be free from blame on this account; and yet I try to find what is good and beautiful in all that I see, and to judge my fellow-creatures as I would have them judg