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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 2: birth.-career as officer of Engineers, United States army. (search)
ummons of the trumpet of the Angel of Death. It is true Scott was pompous and vain of a splendid physical appearance, and had a full appreciation of the high and distinguished position he had attained, but he was a soldier of undoubted military capacity. The people nicknamed him Fuss and feathers, because, in gaudy uniform, he sometimes made the atmosphere blue around him and imparted to it a smell of sulphur when things did not go exactly to suit him. He was a disciple of the doctrine of Epicurus so far asit related to the organ of taste. When he indulged in a hasty plate of soup it was unavoidable, and he has been known to raise a storm because the guest at his table would cut lettuce instead of rolling the leaf around his fork so as not to bruise it. The old soldier is resting quietly now where the Hudson's silvery sands roll ‘mid the hills afar, and if he lacked to some degree personal popularity, was without magnetic influence, and did not possess that power which Carnot calls
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
t to extinguish, Penn 461 but to improve the heathen knowledge. The difference between the philosophers of Greece and the Christian Quaker is rather in manifestation than in Ibid i 327 nature. He cries Stand, to every thought that knocks for entrance; but welcomes it as a friend, if it Chap. XVI.} Penn, i. 326. gives the watchword. Exulting in the wonderful bond which admitted him to a communion with all the sons of light, of every nation and age, he rejected with scorn the school of Epicurus; he had no sympathy with the follies of the skeptics, and esteemed even the mind of Aris- Ibid. i. 538; III. 53. totle too much bent upon the outward world. But Aristotle himself, in so far as he grounds philosophy on virtue and self-denial, and every contemplative sage, orators and philosophers, statesmen and divines, were gathered as a cloud of witnesses to the same unchanging truth. The Inner Light, said Penn, is the Domestic God of Pythagoras. The voice in the breast of George Fox,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
essions made on them and the inferences Chap XXIII.} of reason. Far from being skeptical, he sought to give to faith the highest certainty, by deriving all Gulian C. Verplanck Sir Jas. Mackintosh. Dugald Stewart Berkeley's Works knowledge from absolutely perfect intelligence—from God. If he could but expel matter out of nature; If, in a materialist age, he could establish the supremacy of spirit as the sole creative power and active being, —then would the slavish or corrupt theories of Epicurus and of Hobbes be cut up by the roots and totally extirpated. Thus he sought gently to unbind the ligaments which chain the soul to the earth, and to assist her flight upwards towards the sovereign good. For the application of such views, Europe of the eighteenth century offered no theatre. He longed to divest himself of European dignities; and, regarding the well-being of all men of all nations as the design in which the actions of each individual should concur, he repaired to the new he
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 63: (search)
its only possible saviour; but for America the result was very different; no one was left in the cabinet who was able to restrain the government from yielding to the rising enthusiasm for America. So tangled is the web of history! The retirement of the two men who were the apostles of liberty pushed forward the cause of human freedom, though by ir- Chap LXIII.} 1776. May. regular and disorderly movements. In the early part of the century Leibnitz had found traces of the opinions of Epicurus and Spinoza in the books that were most in vogue, and in the men of the great world who were the masters of affairs, and he had foretold in consequence a general overturn in Europe. The generous sentiment which prefers country and the general good to life, he said, is dying out; public spirit is no more in fashion, and has lost the support of good morals and true religion; the ruling motive in the best is honor, and that is a principle which tolerates any thing but baseness, does not conde
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Retaliation. (search)
his own coin — with compound interest. We have confined in Richmond now, several hundred of the enemy's prisoners; amongst them "Colonels" and members of "Congress." They feast sumptuously daily upon the fat of the land. Some of them deport themselves with an air of impudent arrogance which was wholly foreign to them upon the field of battle. We are told that they have hired messengers to wait upon them. They send for and drink whiskey gaily as if they were the free schoolmen of old Epicurus. Meantime our friends pine in the dungeons of the North; bound like malefactors, insulted by vulgar jailors and turnkeys, and within hearing of the depraved blasphemies of every species of congregated villainy. We demand, then, in their name, "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." Let seven of these fellows, for each one, be sent down South, and confined in the cells of the Fortresses of South Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana, as hostages for the proper treatment of Southern gentle