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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], General Hood Increases his army. (search)
. It has never brought forth a big spies like Homer, or a big Coliseum like that where eighty thousand Romans witnessed the combats of the gladiators; or a big church like St. Peters; a big philosopher like Bacon; a big poet like Shakespeare; a big orator like Chatham; a big soldier like the "little Corsican." --But that is not the kind of bigness adapted to Yankee capacities. A mammoth ox or an overgrown prize-fighter, like the Goliath who went across the ocean to take the starch out of John Bull's collar, and came back in a very rumpled and placid condition, is the bean ideal of Yankee bigness. It may seem strange that a people themselves so little should have such a passion for all that is big. But that is in accordance with the law of contraries in the human mind. People generally admire their opposites. None are as great idolaters of courage as cowards, or of physical strength as the weak.--Men are often more ambitious of reputation for qualities which they do not posses