 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1860 - 544 էջ
...intrepidity. But did his assassin escape ? He was roasted, at a slow fire, on the spot of the murder, in the presence of many thousand slaves, driven to the...appropriate warnings to the assembled subjects. It was not thought indiscreet to leave doors open again that night. Will any traveler say that he has seen... | |
 | FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED - 1861 - 408 էջ
...feel magnanimity and the " fair-play " impulse to be a necessary part of the quality of " spirit,'* courage, and nobleness. By spirit they apparently...character, and by gallantry mere intrepidity. " The massacre of Hayti opened in a ball-room. Mr. Cobden judged there was not the smallest reason in the... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1861 - 546 էջ
...magnanimity and the ' fair-play' impulse to be a necessary part of the quality of ' spirit,' courage, or nobleness. By ' spirit' they apparently mean only...character, and by ' gallantry,' mere intrepidity." Generosity to the weak; which lies at the root of chivalry and true manliness, must become extinct... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1862 - 424 էջ
...not feel magnanimity and the " fair-play " impulse to be a necessary part of the quality of "spirit," courage, and nobleness. By spirit they apparently mean only passionate vindictiveness of chaVacter, and by gallantry mere intrepidity. " The massacre of Hayti opened in a ball-room. Mr. Cobden... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1863 - 107 էջ
...A slave who had killed his master " was roasted alive at a slow fire on the spot of the murder, in the presence of many thousand slaves, driven to the...were scattered to the winds and trampled under foot." * Mr. Olmsted gives the words of newspapers, even newspapers, which from their moderation lie under... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1863 - 116 էջ
...A slave who had killed his master " was roasted alive at a slow fire on the spot of the murder, in the presence of many thousand slaves, driven to the...were scattered to the winds and trampled under foot." * Mr. Olmsted gives the words of newspapers, even newspapers, which from their moderation lie under... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1863 - 240 էջ
...slaves. A slave who had killed his master "was roasted alive at a slow fire on the spot of the murder, in the presence of many thousand slaves, driven to the...which were scattered to the winds and trampled under footr." Mr. Olmsted gives the words of newspapers, even newspapers which from their moderation lie... | |
 | Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1864 - 78 էջ
...1857 a slave who had murdered his master " was roasted at a slow fire on the spot of the murder, in the presence of many thousand slaves, driven to the ground from all the adjoining counties . . . ."f A few years ago, after the burning of a negro in Knoxville, the deed was not only justified... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 604 էջ
...do not feel magnanimity and the fair-play impulse to be a necessary part of the quality of spirit, courage, and nobleness. By spirit they apparently...character, and by gallantry mere intrepidity." ' The South rallied to Brooks as the champion of their cause. The North was stirred to the depths. Doctor... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 566 էջ
...do not feel magnanimity and the fair-play impulse to be a necessary part of the quality of spirit, courage, and nobleness. By spirit they apparently...character, and by gallantry mere intrepidity.'" The South rallied to Brooks as the champion of their cause. The North was stirred to the depths. Doctor... | |
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Southerners do not feel magnanimity and the "fair-play " impulse to be a necessary part of the qnality of " spirit," courage, and nobleness. By spirit they apparently mean only passionate vindictiveness of character, and by gallantry mere intrepidity.... 
