 | Horace Greeley - 1865 - 704 páginas
..."Col. Washington said that Brown was the coolest man he ever saw in defying death and danger. With ono son dead by his side, and another shot through, he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand, held his rifle with the other, and commanded his men with the utmost composure, encouraging them to... | |
 | Sarah Payson Parton - 1865 - 318 páginas
...their wounds. And now John knew that all that was left him was to sell his life as dearly as he could. With one son dead by his side, and another shot through, he felt the pulse of his dying boy with one hand and held his rifle with the other, and told his few men about him to be firm and... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 páginas
...men, too, who survive, are like him Colonel Washington says that he was the coolest and firmest man he ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son...encouraging them to be firm, and to sell their lives as dear as they could. Of the three white prisoners, Brown, Stephens, and Coppic, it was hard to say which... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 566 páginas
...of them I will oppose any hundred such men as these Buford ruffians."— John Brown, " of Kansas." " With one son dead by his side, and another shot through,...of his dying son with one hand, and held his rifle witlv the other, and commanded his men with the utmost composure, encouraging them to be firm, and... | |
 | Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - 1868 - 538 páginas
...Washington, who was Brown's prisoner in the arsenal, testifies, ' He was the coolest and firmest man I ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son...side, and another shot through, he felt the pulse of'his dying son with one hand, and held his rifle with the other, and commanded his men with the utmost... | |
 | Winslow Cossoul Watson - 1869 - 516 páginas
...more impressive scene than is described by Mr. Washington : " Brown was the coolest and firmest man he ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son...he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand, held his rifle with the other, and commanded his men with the utmost composure." 2 It is not my province... | |
 | 1873 - 796 páginas
...Colonel Washington, declared that " Brown was the coolest man he ever saw in defying death and danger. With one son dead by his side and another shot through,...he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand, held his rifle with the other, and commanded his men with the utmost composure, encouraging them to... | |
 | 1873 - 812 páginas
...extorted the admiration of his prisoners. " With one son dead by his side," says Col. "Washington, u and another shot through, he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand, held his rifle in the other, and commanded his men with the utmost composure, encouraging them to be... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 828 páginas
...extorted the admiration of his prisoners. "With one son dead by his side," says Col. Washington, " and another shot through, he ' felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand, held his rifle in the other, and commanded his men with the utmost composure, encouraging them to be... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1875 - 408 páginas
...Colonel Washington, one of his prisoners, said that Captain Brown was " the coolest and firmest man he ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son...the utmost composure, encouraging them to be firm." He fell at last with six wounds, and was thought to be dying. Ten of the party were killed, and four... | |
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but firm, truthful, and intelligent. His men, too, who survive, are like him.... Colonel Washington says that he was the coolest and firmest man he ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son dead by his side, and another shot through, he felt... 
