"Among other stipulated conditions, one was to marry my daughter Editha. This Edward consented to w...
2011-11-24
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau [1849, original title: Resistance to Civi...
But soon a wild burst of irony: "You are like him who killed the dog and fell into the river. See! ...
was sealed in the book of memory. Israel laughed. What could his good friend mean? Behold! was he n...
as their importunities had done before to induce her to leave it. "He must be starving in prison," ...
of rage and fear, this thing of rags and patches, this whining, maudlin, shrieking, bleating, barki...
with sleeves like the mouths of bells, a silver knife at his waistband, and little leather bags, hu...
from the Kasbah. At the head of it walked a soldier, staff in hand and gorgeous--notwithstanding th...
now it was like a face that was always smiling. And though the year was so old it seemed to be quit...
and a tongue to speak; this was the vision of his dead wife, which when he awoke on his journey had...
of the floor with the slipper in his hand, when a footstep came to the door. He flung the slipper a...
as she spoke and her sunny hair fall about her restless head she laughed and laughed again with a h...
of their own hushed tongues and the songless and voiceless world, the fingers of the little ones cl...
and finding it to be a necklace, she clasped it about her neck and laughed. At the sound of her la...
his head was held up, and he walked proudly. A great burden had fallen from him, and his spirit was...