 | 1850 - 156 pages
...and be locked up in the county gaol therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America.' — ' Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Civil disobedience - 1866 - 314 pages
...of a quarrel with her, — the Legislature would not wholly waive the subject the following winter. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 798 pages
...her I can, as is usual in such cases." He was put in prison ; but that was a part of his design. " Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the...know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name — ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to... | |
 | 1880 - 402 pages
...of her I can, as is usual in such cases." He was put in prison ; but that was apart of his design. " Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the...know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name—ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to Jwld... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 400 pages
...of her I can, as is usual in such cases." He was put in prison ; but that was apart of his design. " Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the...know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name — ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1882 - 492 pages
...her I can, as is usual in such cases." He was put in prison ; but that was a part of his design. " Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the...know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name — ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1887 - 382 pages
...that was a part of his design. "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place fora just man is also a prison. I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name — ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - Country life - 1889 - 260 pages
...war with the State after my own fashion." He was put in prison, but that was a part of his design. " Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name —... | |
 | Education - 1891 - 642 pages
...would not for an instant recognize that political organization for his government which was the slaves government also. "In fact," he said, "I will quietly...honest man in this state of Massachusetts ceasing to withdraw from this co-partnership and be locked up in the county jail, therefore it would be the abolition... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 pages
...of a quarrel with her, —the Legislature would not wholly waive the subject the following winter. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding... | |
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. 
