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Rebecca Harding Davis
Every child was...
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew...
One sees that...
One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of...
Reform is born...
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented,...
Be just --...
Be just -- not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye...
While the light...
While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman...
Nowhere in this...
Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil...
North and South...
North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to...
Reform is born...
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented,...
These great turning-days...
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the...
Young people have...
Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which . . . develops patriotism and courage....
Every child was...
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew...
One sees that...
One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of...
Reform is born...
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented,...
Be just --...
Be just -- not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye...
While the light...
While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman...
Nowhere in this...
Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil...
North and South...
North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to...
Reform is born...
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented,...
These great turning-days...
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the...
Young people have...
Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which . . . develops patriotism and courage....