Sir, when I heard the gentleman lay down principles which place the murderers of Alton side by side with Otis and Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the Hall] would have broken into voice to rebuke... The Life and Times of Wendell Phillips - Página 79por George Lowell Austin - 1884 - 431 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Nichol - 1882 - 496 páginas
...Chairman — When I heard the gentleman lay down principles which placed the rioters, incendiaries, and murderers of Alton side by side with Otis and Hancock,...the recreant American, the slanderer of the dead. Sir, the gentleman said that he should sink into insignificance if he dared not gainsay the principles... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 492 páginas
...Chairman — When I heard the gentleman lay down principles which placed the rioters, incendiaries, and murderers of Alton side by side with Otis and Hancock,...the recreant American, the slanderer of the dead. Sir, the gentleman said that he should sink into insignificance if he dared not gainsay the principles... | |
| Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1882 - 494 páginas
...Hancock, with Adams and Quincy — rose and said he thought " those pictured lips," pointing to their portraits in the hall, " would have broken into voice...the recreant American, the slanderer of the dead." It seemed to me one of those occasions which carry us back to the very days and deeds of the noble... | |
| Annie Besant - 1884 - 396 páginas
...though it was done in terms and tones of thrilling interest." "When I heard," said Wendell Phillips "the gentleman lay down principles which place the...Adams, I thought those pictured lips (pointing to their portraits which hung about the hall) would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American... | |
| William C. Roberts - 1884 - 264 páginas
...object of his attack, was shown on that occasion. " Sir," he said, in the course of this speech, " when I heard the gentleman lay down principles which...and Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those precious lips (pointing to the portraits in the hall) would have broken info voices to rebuke the recreant... | |
| George Lowell Austin - 1884 - 686 páginas
...Mr. Phillips then arose. "When I heard," said he, " the gentleman lay down principles which placed the murderers of Alton side by side with Otis and...Adams, I thought those pictured lips " — pointing to their portraits in the hall — " would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American, the... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1884 - 52 páginas
...it back to its real object. "When I heard," he said, "the gentleman lay down principles which placed the murderers of Alton side by side with Otis and Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought these pictured lips [pointing to their portraits] would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant... | |
| Wendell Phillips - 1884 - 578 páginas
...and constitution of the Province. The rioters of our day go for their owp wills, right Of ff rnng. I Sir, when I heard the gentleman lay down principles which place the murderers of Alton side by side_ with Otis and Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I __ thought those pictured Tips [pointing to the... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1884 - 28 páginas
...Otis and Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought these pictured lips [pointing to their portraits] would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American, the slanderer of the dead." From that moment the tide was turned, the audience carried, the oratorical fame of Wendell Phillips... | |
| George William Curtis - 1884 - 44 páginas
...murderers of Alton, side by side with Otis and Hancock, and Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American — the slanderer of the dead." And even as he spoke the vision was fulfilled. Once more its native music rang through Faneuil Hall.... | |
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