“You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.” MadePassionHouseLandLowsDirectUniversalInstitutionsAssumingIllNobleTyrannyRuinsMultitudesProphecyVulgarParliamentSpoilRefinedFlatteringVerifyMeddlingHouse Of CommonsCompetencies Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.” LooksCountryEyeLandMountainBlueExpectedLovelyRuinsDullDisappointedValleysEnteringSweetestSceneryBohemia Book:Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
“Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.” WorldCareNaturalChanceSilenceMorningLandQuietMountainGreenStormRuinsOver ItDislikeNatural WorldHerdsRainyMonasteriesSailboatGrazingBeing QuietForeign Places Book:Goodbye to a river: a narrative Source: Goodbye to a river: a narrative
“Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.” MenSoulBodyLandDivineDiseaseStonesGoldPhilosopherViolentRuinsSmokingGoodsRemedySovereignPlagueTobaccoMischiefAleDevilishPanacea Author:Robert A. Burton
“There is absolutely nothing in the Mormon's religion inconsistent with the most patriotic devotion to the government of the United States. Revelation and the commandments of the church require that the Constitution and the laws of the land be upheld. It is also part of our belief that the time will come when the country will be distracted and general lawlessness prevail. Then the Mormon people will step forward and take an active part in rescuing the nation from ruin.” PeopleCountryStatesGovernmentLawBeliefNationsChurchUnitedStepsUnited StatesLandConstitutionActiveDevotionRuinsRevelationsPatrioticCommandmentsDistractedAbsolutely NothingSteps ForwardInconsistentLawlessnessMost Patriotic Author:Wilford Woodruff