 | Henry David Thoreau - Civil disobedience - 1866 - 314 pages
...and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be : what is once well done is done forever. But we love better to talk about it : that we say is our mission. Reform keeps many scores of newspapers... | |
 | 1880 - 402 pages
...and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be : what is once well done is done forever." Such was his theory of civil disobedience. nesses to the suffering they cause ; but when we see them... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 400 pages
...and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be : what is once well done is done forever." Such was his theory of civil disobedience. And the upshot ? A friend paid the tax for him ; continued... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 798 pages
...copartnership, and be locked in the country jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be ; what is once well done is done for ever." Such was his theory of civil disobedience. And the upshot ? A friend paid the tax for him... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 474 pages
...and be locked up in the county gaol therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be ; what is once well done is done for ever." Such was his theory of civil disobedience. And the upshot ? A friend paid the tax for him;... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1887 - 382 pages
...and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be ; what is once well done is done forever. ' ' Such was his theory of civil disobedience. And the upshot ? A friend paid the tax for him ; continued... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Slavery - 1890 - 158 pages
...from tips copartnership, and ntyiail therefor, ifcjveuld be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be : what is once well done is done forever. But we love better to talk about it : that we say is our mission. Reform keeps many scores of newspapers... | |
 | Education - 1891 - 642 pages
...Massachusetts ceasing to withdraw from this co-partnership and be locked up in the county jail, therefore it would be the abolition of slavery in America. It...so that the whole affair seemed like a joke. Yet as Stevenson says, "if his example had been followed by a hundred or by thirty of his followers, it would... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 454 pages
...and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be : what is once well done is done forever. But we love better to talk about it: that we say is our mission. Reform keeps many scores of newspapers... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 452 pages
...and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be : what is once well done is done forever. But we love better to talk about it: that we say is our mission. Reform keeps many scores of newspapers... | |
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I could name,— if ten honest men only, —ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery... 
