... companion and myself. Contrasting his manner with the quiet dignity of the Colonel, I almost fancied our positions reversed — that, instead of our being in his power, the Secretary was in ours, and momently expecting to hear some unwelcome sentence... Down in Tennessee, and Back by Way of Richmond - Page 269by James Roberts Gilmore - 1864 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
| American essays - 1864 - 816 pages
...reversed, — that, instead of our being in his power, the Secretary was in ours, and momently expecting to hear some unwelcome sentence from our lips. There...Judge, or watching the passers-by in the street, — I should like to tell who they were and how they looked, but such information is just now contraband,... | |
| Frank Moore - United States - 1868 - 796 pages
...reversed — that, instead of our being in his power, the Secretary was in ours, and momently expecting to hear some unwelcome sentence from our lips. There...Judge, or watching the passers-by in the street — I should like to tell who they were and how they looked, but such information is just now contraband... | |
| Frank Moore - United States - 1868 - 842 pages
...reversed — that, instead of our being in his power, the Secretary was in ours, and momently expecting to hear some unwelcome sentence from our lips. There is something, after all, in moral power. Air. Benjamin does not possess it, nor is he a great man. He has a keen, shrewd, ready intellect, but... | |
| Gamaliel Bradford - Confederate States of America - 1914 - 354 pages
...who, indeed, is said to have been his idol.58 Gilmore's brief description is vital on this point : " There is something, after all, in moral power. Mr....even to execute, any great good or great wickedness." 59 But again, some who recognize Benjamin's honesty assert that he took up the Confederate cause as... | |
| American essays - 1864 - 886 pages
...reversed, — that, instead of our being in his power, the Secretary was in ours, and momently expecting to hear some unwelcome sentence from our lips. There...Judge, or watching the passers-by in the street,— I should like to tell who they were and how they looked, but such information is just now contraband,... | |
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