 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to...am not distant. But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. But i his momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered... | |
 | Republican Committee of 76 - 1840 - 52 pages
...timo ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to...am not distant. But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to...in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I conquered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 624 pages
...time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. But the momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 594 pages
...any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger m our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. But the momentous question, like n fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered... | |
 | 1848 - 708 pages
...time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not di*unt But this momentous ouestion, hke a fire-bell in the ntcht, awakened and filled me with terror.... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1854 - 762 pages
...time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not far distant. But this momentous ques tion, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1858 - 766 pages
...time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to...and filled me with terror. I considered it at once ns the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a... | |
 | United States - 1859 - 406 pages
...time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not far distant. But this momentous question, like the firebell in the night, awakened and tilled me with... | |
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But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. 
