 Some eighteen hundred years ago Christ was crucified; this morning, perchance, Captain Brown was hung. These are the two ends of a chain which is not without its links. He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light.  Miscellanies - Page 232by Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 429 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 pages
...his immortal life ; and so -it becomes your cause wholly, and is not his in the least. Some eighteen hundred years ago Christ was crucified ; this morning,...see now that it was necessary that the bravest and Immanest man in all the country should be hung. Perhaps he saw it himself. I almost fear that I may... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 984 pages
...services were held, and funeral bells were tolled. " Some eighteen hundred years ago," said Thoreau, " Christ was crucified ; this morning, perchance, Captain...two ends of a chain which is not without its links." t " The road to heaven," said Theodore Parker, "is as short from the gallows as from a throne; perhaps,... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1878 - 622 pages
...was in prison he said : — " I plead not for his life, but his character— his immortal life. ... I see now that it was necessary that the bravest and humanest man in the country should be hung. Perhaps he saw it himself. I almost fear that I may yet hear of his deliverance,... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1881 - 774 pages
...his character, — his immortal life ; and so it becomes your cause wholly, and not his in the least. I see now that it was necessary that the bravest and humanest man in the country should be hung. Perhaps he saw it himself. 1 almost fear that I may yet hear of his deliverance,... | |
 | George Stewart - 1882 - 44 pages
...character, — his immortal life ; and so it becomes your fcause wholly, and not his in the least. I see now that it was necessary that the bravest and humanest man in the country should be hung. Perhaps he saw it himself. / almost fear that I may yet hear of his deliverance,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 526 pages
...gallows as from a throne ; perhaps, also, as easy." " Some eighteen hundred years ago," said Thoreau, " Christ was crucified; this morning, perchance, Captain...two ends of a chain which is not without its links." Emerson, using a prr«. yet stronger figure, had already called him " a new saint, waiting yet his... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 522 pages
...gallows as from a throne ; perhaps, also, as easy." " Some eighteen hundred years ago," said Thoreau, " Christ was crucified; this morning, perchance, Captain...two ends of a chain which is not without its links." Emerson, using a yet stronger figure, had already called him " a new saint, waiting yet his martyrdom,... | |
 | 1891 - 642 pages
...immortal life, and so it becomes your cause wholly, and it is not his in the least. "Some eighteen hundred years ago Christ was crucified; this morning,...Captain Brown was hung. These are the two ends of the chain which is not without its links. He is not Old Brown, any longer; he is an angel of light.... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 604 pages
...Works, vol. iv. p. 636. i The Liberator, Nov. 18th. " Some eighteen hundred years ago," said Thoreau, "Christ was crucified ; this morning, perchance, Captain...Brown any longer ; he is an angel of light. ... I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene [the interview of Brown and Senator Mason],... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 564 pages
...Works, vol. iv. p. 636. 8 The Liberator, Nov. 18th. " Some eighteen hundred years ago," said Thoreau, "Christ was crucified ; this morning, perchance, Captain...Brown any longer ; he is an angel of light. ... I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene [the interview of Brown and Senator Mason],... | |
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