 But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.  The American Whig Review - Էջ 1231848Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Henry Dickson Capers - 1893 - 636 էջ
...question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as a knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not the final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 էջ
...momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say with conscious truth that there is not a man on... | |
 | Charles Mitchell Harvey - 1896 - 322 էջ
...once as the knell of the Union." Then with words which future events proved to be prophetic, he added: "It is hushed, indeed, for the moment, but this is...never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and "\vorkss°nvoi deepe:." vii"p-'159This note of warning was called out by the contest... | |
 | Edward Ingle - 1896 - 400 էջ
...profitably be grown. The danger in this compromise was shown by Jefferson, who wrote in 1820 that " A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Because the greater part of Texas lay below that line was the reason in part for the opposition in... | |
 | Ernst von Halle - 1897 - 406 էջ
...auch die Drohungen bei der Wahl von 1856, Rhodes, History Bd. II, S. 204 ff. 3 Jefferson schrieb: 1820 „A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle,...once conceived and held up to the angry passions of 1nen, w1ll never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper", bei Ingle... | |
 | 1898 - 916 էջ
...Rhodos, Ilistory Bd. II, S. 204 ff. * Jefferson schrieb: 1820 „A geographical line eoinciding wirb a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived...held up to the angry passions of men, will never be oblitcrated, and cvery ncw irritation will mark it deeper and deeper", bei Inele aa OS 304. * Life... | |
 | Ernst von Halle - 1898 - 1212 էջ
...n marked prinoiple, moral and politifal, oncc conceived and held up to the angry passions of inen, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper". bei Ingle aa OS 304. 4 Life and Leiters of Francis Lieber, S. 314. südlicher Bildung *. Die socialen... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 500 էջ
...momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed,...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will neve1Lbe- obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 498 էջ
...upon his ear like "a fire bell in the night." Said he: — " I considered it, at once, as the death knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the...coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political" — Sir, it is this very coincidence of geographical line with the marked principle, moral and political,... | |
 | Henry Childs Merwin - 1901 - 184 էջ
...the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. ... A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. . . . The cession of that kind of property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost... | |
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