 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 Southern Review - Σελίδα 206επεξεργασία από - 1867Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - 564 σελίδες
...the extension of slavery first arose, he wrote to a private friend : "I consider it at once the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment,...coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, and conceived and held up by the arigry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 σελίδες
...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....geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral 15. 249. and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 738 σελίδες
...a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at onoe as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve . n , !y . not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - 564 σελίδες
...influence, but for safety. with a marked principle, moral and political, and conceived and held up by the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." But it seems clear to me that if slavery had never existed,... | |
 | Carrie Westlake Whitney - 1908 - 714 σελίδες
...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;...conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, never will be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Twice the house,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 σελίδες
...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....reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line [dividing free and slave territory] . . . once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will... | |
 | Robert Franklin Durden - 1985 - 166 σελίδες
...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....passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Jefferson went on to insist that there was "not a man on... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - 1989 - 340 σελίδες
...a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. 1 considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed for the moment....passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.44 The passage has been quoted often, perhaps because no... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 σελίδες
...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....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... | |
 | William W. Freehling - 1990 - 660 σελίδες
...the northern assault "like a fire bell in the night," "hushed" only "for the moment." The North-South "geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle,...passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." To this all-too-true prophesy, Jefferson added the dirge... | |
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