 that new saint, than whom none purer or more brave was ever led by love of men into conflict and death — the new saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross ;" and this sentiment was responded...  John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After - Page 563by Oswald Garrison Villard - 1910 - 738 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 984 pages
...also, as easy." Emerson, using a yet stronger figure, had already called him " a new saint, waiting yet his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross." \ Amid this conflict of argument, public opinion in the free States gravitated to neither extreme.... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 416 pages
...prison or to die in rescuing others, or in rescuing themselves from chains of the slave ; or look at that new saint, than whom none purer or more brave was ever led by love of man into conflict and death, — a new saint, waiting yet his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer,... | |
 | James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 442 pages
...lecture, which was delivered while Brown was lying in prison under sentence of death, he spoke of him as " that new saint, than whom none purer or more...suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross." In the essay as published ten years later, these passages were omitted ; distance of time having brought... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 456 pages
...lecture, which was delivered while Brown was lying in prison under sentence of death, he spoke of him as " that new saint, than whom none purer or more...suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross." In the essay as published ten 'years later, these passages were omitted ; distance of time having brought... | |
 | New England - 1891 - 836 pages
...proclamation of the emancipation of which Lincoln was but the scribe. "A new saint," said Emerson, " than whom none purer or more brave was ever led by love of man into conflict or death, — a new saint waiting yet his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 522 pages
...its links." Emerson, using a yet stronger figure, had already called him " a new saint, waiting yet his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross." Amid this conflict of argument, public opinion in the free States gravitated to neither extreme. It... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 526 pages
...links." Emerson, using a prr«. yet stronger figure, had already called him " a new saint, waiting yet his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the "Life or Emerson," cross." P- 140Amid this conflict of argument, public opinion in the free States... | |
 | New England - 1891 - 850 pages
...purer or more brave was ever led by love of man into conflict or death, — a new saint waiting yet his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross." When his body lay in the grave at North Elba, New England's orator, casting the horoscope of the future,... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 564 pages
...audience who had gathered to hear his lecture on " Courage." ' The same evening he further spoke of Brown as " that new saint, than whom none purer or more...suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross ;" and this sentiment was responded to with enthusiasm by the immense audience of Tremont Temple.'... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...audience who had gathered to hear his lecture on " Courage." * The same evening he further spoke of Brown as " that new saint, than whom none purer or more...suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross ;" and this sentiment was responded to with enthusiasm by the immense audience of Tremont Temple.'... | |
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