The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Ashes of the beacon. The land beyond the blow. For the Ahkoond. John Smith, liberator. Bits of autobiography1909 |
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Página 386 - And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old,— The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 276 - Hazen's first remark to me was an inquiry about that artillery ammunition that he had sent me for. It was needed badly enough, as were other kinds : for the last hour or two of that interminable day Granger's were the only men that had enough ammunition to make a five minutes' fight. Had the Confederates made one more general attack we should have had to meet them with the bayonet alone. I don't know why they did not; probably they were short of ammunition. I know, though, that while the sun was...
Página 36 - Sad to look upon: in the highest stage of civilisation, nine tenths of mankind have to struggle in the lowest battle of savage or even animal man, the battle against Famine. Countries are rich, prosperous in all manner of increase, beyond example : but the Men of those countries are poor, needier than ever of all sustenance outward and inward; of Belief, of Knowledge, of Money, of Food.
Página 35 - Wealth has accumulated itself into masses ; and Poverty, also in accumulation enough, lies impassably separated from it; opposed, uncommunicating, like forces in positive and negative poles. The gods of this lower world sit aloft on glittering thrones, less happy than Epicurus...
Página 223 - Looking back upon it through the haze of near half a century, I see that region as a veritable realm of enchantment; the Alleghanies as the Delectable Mountains. I note again their dim, blue billows, ridge after ridge interminable, beyond purple valleys full of sleep, "in which it seemed always afternoon.
Página 282 - For my commander and my friend, mv master in the art of war, now unable to answer for himself, let this fact answer: when he heard Wood say they would put him in and see what success he would have in defeating an army — when he saw Howard assent — he uttered never a word, rode to the head of his feeble brigade 10. General Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) was prominent at Stone's River, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga, where he commanded the line that charged up Missionary Ridge. For that audacity,...
Página 35 - Epicurus's gods, but as indolent, as impotent; while the boundless living chaos of Ignorance and Hunger welters terrific, in its dark fury, under their feet. How much among us...
Página 253 - I had halted my platoon to await the slower movement of the line — a Federal sergeant, variously hurt, who had been a fine giant in his time. He lay face upward, taking in his breath in convulsive, rattling snorts, and blowing it out in sputters of froth which crawled creamily down his cheeks, piling itself alongside his neck and ears. A bullet had clipped a groove in his skull, above the temple; from this the brain protruded in bosses, dropping off in flakes and strings.
Página 35 - ... bones ! Iron highways, with their wains firewinged, are uniting all ends of the firm Land; quays and moles, with their innumerable stately fleets, tame the Ocean into...
Página 363 - I am probably the only American journalist who was ever employed by an Empress in so congenial a pursuit as the pursuit of another journalist." In 1876 he returned to San Francisco, where (with the exception of a year as manager of a mining company near Deadwood, South Dakota) he lived for the next twenty-five years. He earned a livelihood by contributing to the Wasp, a publication whose nature is revealed by its name, and by conducting several...