 ... of a community of great simplicity of manners, and of a manifest love of justice. I find our annals marked with a uniform good sense. — The tone of the record rises with the dignity of the event. These soiled and musty books are luminous and electric...  The North American Review - Page 4981836Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1837 - 594 pages
...the better, both for individual character and the general well-being. "The lone of the records rises with the dignity of the event. These soiled and musty books are luminous and electric within. The old town-clerks did not spell very correctly, but they contrive to make pretty intelligible the will of... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...hanging of witches, no ghosts, no whipping of Quakers, no unnatural crimes. The tone of the records rises with the dignity of the event. These soiled and musty books are luminous- and electric within. The old town-clerks did not spell very correctly, but they contrive to make pretty intelligible the will of... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...ghosts, no whipping of Quakers, no unnatural crimes. The tone of the records rises with the digniiy of the event. These soiled" and musty books are luminous and electric within. The old town-clerks did not spell very correctly, but they contrive to make pretty intelligible the will of... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 pages
...hanging of witches, no ghosts, no whipping of Quakers, no unnatural crimes. The tone of the records rises with the dignity of the event. These soiled and musty books are luminous and electric within. The old town-clerks did not spell very correctly, but they contrive to make pretty intelligible the will of... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1882 - 358 pages
...Quakers, no unnatural crimes. The old town clerks did not spell very correctly, but they contrived to make pretty intelligible the will of a free and just community." Into such a community Henry Thoreau, a free and just man, was born. Dr. Heywood, above-named, was the... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 pages
...hanging of witches, no ghosts, no whipping of Quakers, no unnatural crimes. The tone of the records rises with the dignity of the event. These soiled and musty books are luminous and electric within. The old town-clerks did not spell very correctly, but they contrive to make pretty intelligible the will of... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...love of justice. I find our annals marked with a uniform good sense. — The tone of the record rises with the dignity of the event. These soiled and musty...not spell very correctly, but they contrive to make intelligible the will of a free and just community." . . . "The matters there debated (in town meetings)... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 236 pages
...search after things, of a community of great simplicity of manners, and of a manifest love of justice. These soiled and musty books are luminous and electric within. The old town-clerks did not spell very correctly, but they contrive to make pretty intelligible the will of... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1890 - 876 pages
...manifest love of justice. I find our annals marked with a uniform good sense. The tone of the record rises with the dignity of the event. These soiled and musty books are luminous and electric within. Th« old town clerks did not spell very correctly, but they contrive to make intelligible the will... | |
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