Eirene: Or, A Woman's RightG. P. Putnam & sons, 1871 - 219 páginas |
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Página 20 - ... When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Página 20 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," God grant it, — God grant it!
Página 20 - What is all this worth?' nor those other words of delusion and folly, 'Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, 'Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Página 142 - For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and participate of the calm below.
Página 20 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. 1 have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Página 196 - Daylight began to stream in at the windows. " Let us go to bed," said Ducos : " life is so trifling a thing that it is not worth the hour of sleep we lose in regretting it." " Let us watch," said Lasource to Sillery and Fauchet ; " eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
Página 142 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
Página 148 - Jackson ascended Maryland Heights and turned our guns against us ! The boys had just had their breakfast on Saturday morning, September 13, when the quick, cruel ring of musketry cutting the air made them start. On one side was the Shenandoah, bounded by Loudoun Heights, on the other the Potomac, with the Heights of Maryland, a high, green, precipitous wall, towering above its opposite shore. Jackson had come. Through the blue of that transcendent morning the sunlit woods upon the mountain-tops were...
Página 12 - ... (New York Tribune, January 23, 1871.) " Think of her ? I think she is dressed like a dud; can't say how she would look in the costume of the present century." (Putnam's Magazine, February, 1870.) Dump, to, in the sense of unloading a cart by tilting it up, is peculiar to this country. It is in all probability an imitative term, made from the sound, the heavy thud or knock which that operation produces. " It is no joke to go on all day dumping loads of dirt...
Página 150 - ... tumbling down the mountain gorge. Bayonets flashed out from the woods. Long columns of men began moving down the mountain defile. O, saddest, most disgraceful sight of all, the flag which waved from that mountain-top, our signal of freedom and hope, they tore it down. " The Heights are surrendered ! " From the ranks came one curse, long and deep : " If we had not had a traitor for a leader we should not have surrendered.