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
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 2 0 Browse Search
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 2 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 589 results in 109 document sections:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 9. (search)
we borrow the rigors with which they repress liberty, and guard their own uncertain power. For myself, in no factious spirit, but solemnly, and in loyalty to the constitution, as a senator of Massachusetts, I protest against this wrong. On slavery, as on every other subject, I claim the right to be heard. That right I cannot, I will not, abandon. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, above all liberties: these are the glowing words which flashed from the soul of John Milton, in his struggles with English tyranny. With equal fervor they should be echoed now by every American not already a slave. But, sir, this effort is impotent as tyrannical. The convictions of the heart cannot be repressed. The utterances of conscience must be heard. They break forth with irrepressible might. As well attempt to check the tides of ocean, the currents of the Mississippi, or the rushing waters of Niagara. The discussion of slavery will proceed wherever two or three ar
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 13: (search)
ant fountain, this broad hospitality took its rise. In referring to his colleague, Mr. Wilson, he said, It is my special happiness to recognize his unfailing sympathies for myself, and his manly assumption of all the responsibilities of honor. His encomium on Massachusetts was remarkable for its truth and beauty. My filial love does not claim too much, said he, when it exhibits her as approaching the pattern of a Christian commonwealth, which, according to the great English republican, John Milton, ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body. Not through any worldly triumphs, not through the vaults of State Street, the spindles of Lowell, or even the learned endowments of Cambridge, is Massachusetts thus; but because, seeking to extend everywhere within the sphere of her influence the benign civilization which she cultivates at home, she stands forth the faithful, unseduced supporter of hu
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 16: (search)
good pursue, To God, his neighbor, and himself most true. George Herbert. In all things that hare beauty, there is nothing to men more comely than liberty. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, above all liberties.--John Milton. Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye: Thy steps I'll follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. Tobias Smollett. Although Mr. Sumner had labored with untiring assiduiautographs; and, in exhibiting his literary treasures to his friends, he would point with great delight to the Bible which John Bunyan had in Bedford Jail while writing his immortal Pilgrim's progress; to a copy of Pindar, once the property of John Milton; to one of Horace which Philip Melancthon used; to a Testament of the dramatic poet Jean Racine; to some corrected proof-sheets of Pope's famous Essay on man; and especially to the original manuscript of Robert Burns's celebrated battle-song,
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 17: (search)
aps, at the present moment, this is its highest function. Slavery has ceased in name; but this is all. The old masters still assert an inhuman power, and now by positive statutes seek to bind the freedmen in new chains. Let this conspiracy proceed unchecked, and the freedman will be more unhappy than the early Puritan, who, seeking liberty of conscience, escaped from the lords bishops only to fall under the lords elders. The master will still be master under another name, as, according to Milton,-- New presbyter is but old priest writ large. Serfdom or apprenticeship is slavery in another guise. To save the freedmen from this tyranny, with all its accumulated outrage, is your solemn duty. For this we are now devising guaranties; but, believe me, the only sufficient guaranty is the ballot. Let the freedman vote, and he will have in himself under the law a constant, ever-present, self-protecting power. The armor of citizenship will be his best security. The ballot will be
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
ore he had touched the weapon. The Saturday Review once pointed out as the two faults of Lowell's prose writings an overconfident tone and a grotesqueness of illustration. It must, undoubtedly, be conceded by his admirers that, though he is never coarse, yet his taste is not always to be trusted. The Saturday Review quoted this sentence from his Shakespeare once more, Hamlet and the Novum Organum were at the risk of teething and the measles at the same time; and from the paper on Italy, Milton is the only man who has got much poetry out of a cataract, and that was a cataract in his eye. Of such passages the Saturday Review remarked, with some reason, that they are relics of the hobbledehoy stage of literary production, and are serious blemishes in a style making just pretensions to maturity. Akin to this is the remark of one of Lowell's few severe critics in his own country, Professor W. C. Wilkinson, in his A Free Lance in life and letters, who makes the want of firm and harmon
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Index (search)
itor Atlantic Monthly, 178-180; foreign minister, 181-182; his nephews, 183-184; compared with Holmes, 185-186; fertility of mind, 187-188; prose writings, 189-190; popularity in London, 191-192; later life, 193-195; death, 196. Lowell, Mrs. J. R. (Maria White), 159, 162, 176. Lowell, Percival, 94. Lowell, Rev. R. T. S., 16. Lowell, Miss, Sally, 125. Macaulay, T. B., 88. Mackenzie, Lieut. A. S., 117. Mather, Cotton, 4, 7. Mather, Pres., Increase, 7. Mather, Rev., Richard, 7. Milton, John, 90, 189. Mitchell, Dr., Weir, 82. Moore, Thomas, 91. Morse, J. T., Jr., 92, 100. Morton, Thomas, 29. Motley, J. L., 63, 68, 71, 83, 191. Newell, W. W., 150. Norton, Andrews, 14, 44, 48, 49. Norton, Prof. C. E., 16, 28, 37,44, 148, 160, 172. Nuttall, Thomas, 13. Oakes, Pres., Urian, 7. Oliver, Mrs., 151. Oliver, Lieut. Gov., 153. Oliver, Lieut., Thomas, 150, 151, 152. Page, W. H., 69. Palfrey, Rev. J. G., 16, 44, 50. Palfrey, Miss Sarah H., 16. Parker, Rev., Theodor
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
oted, 195, 196, 248; her Martyr Age in America, 245; 105, 124. Massachusetts, southern attempt to enslave, 010-Io3. And see Boston. Matthew, Saint, Gospel of, quoted, 181-84. May, Samuel, Jr., 210, 211, 212. May, Samuel J., quoted, 73-75, 78-80, 81-86, 93-95, 196-98; converted to Abolition by G., 77 ff.; the angel of Anti-slavery, 78; and G., 80, 81; and the Lunt Committee, 124, 126, 127; 29, 32, 71, 138, 150, 227. Methodists, and Abolition, 208. Mill, John Stuart, 251. Milton, John, 165. Missouri, admission of, with slavery, Io. Missouri Compromise, 10, 25, 256, 258; repeal of, 10, 256, 258. Nashville, vigilance committee at, 76. National Anti-Slavery Society founded, 73 if.; 151. National Intelligencer, the, appeals to Otis, 52, 53. negro, the, how related to the beginning of the struggle between North and South, 25 f. New Organization, the, 153, 154. New Testament, the, and slavery's apologists, 200, 201. New York Herald, denounces G., 201-20
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 5: finding a friend. (search)
idian in later messages. Mrs. Emerson does not love me, she says in one place, more than I love her. On May 30, 1837, she returns to Emerson, Coleridge's Literary remains, which she has ransacked pretty thoroughly, and The friend, with which she should never have done; also a volume of Goethe and one of Scougal, and she asks him on the outside of the note what these two worthies will be likely to say to one another as they journey side by side. She begs to keep for summer two volumes of Milton, two of Degerando, the seventh and eighth of Goethe's Nachgelassene Werke, besides one volume of Jonson and one of Plutarch's Morals. She also subscribes for two copies of Carlyle's Miscellanies. Later she writes (November 25, 1839) to ask him What is the Harleyan (sic) Miscellany ?--an account of a library? and says, I thought to send Tennyson next time, but I cannot part with him, it must be for next pacquet (sic). I have been reading Milnes; he is rich in fine thoughts but not in fin
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Index. (search)
, 272; letter from, 244. Lyric Glimpses, 286, 288. M. McDowell, Mrs., 211. Mackie, J. M., 168. Mackintosh, Sir, James, 187, 287, 288. Mann, Horace, 11, 12. Mariana, story of, 28. Marston, J. Westland, 146, 160. Martineau, Harriet, 86, 46, 68, 122-129, 222, 223, 283, 284. Martineau, James, 221. Mary Queen of Scots, 226. Mazzini, Joseph, 5, 229, 231, 236, 244, 284. Middleton, Conyers, 50. Mill, John Stuart 146. Milman, H. H., 228. Milnes, R. M. See Houghton. Milton, John, 69. Morris, G. P., 80. Mozier, Mrs., 276. N. Neal, John, 299. Newton, Stuart, 82. Novalis (F. von Hardenburg), 46,146. Nuttall, Thomas, 88. O. Ossoli, A. P. E., birth of, 258 ; descriptions of, 269, 268, 270, 271; death of, 279. Ossoli, G. A., descriptions of, 248, 244, 247; letters from, 249. Ossoli, Sarah Margaret (Fuller), per-sonal relations of author with, 2; manuscript letters and journals of, 8; demanded something beyond self-culture, 4, 6, 87, 88, 111, 21
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fourth: orations and political speeches. (search)
petuate this inequality. Every infant of royal blood, every noble, every vassal, was a present example, that, whatever might be the truths of religion, or the sentiments of the heart, men living under these institutions were not born equal. The boldest political reformers of early times did not venture to proclaim this truth; nor did they truly perceive it. Cromwell beheaded his king, but caused the supreme power to be secured in hereditary succession to his eldest son. It was left to John Milton, in poetic vision, to be entranced— With fair Equality, fraternal state. Sidney, who perished a martyr to liberal sentiments, drew his inspiration from the classic, and not from the Christian fountains. The examples of Greece and Rome fed his soul. The Revolution of 1688, partly by force, and partly by the popular voice, brought a foreigner to the crown of Great Britain, and according to the boast of loyal Englishmen, the establishment of Freedom throughout the land. But the B
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...