Questions tagged [a-plea-for-captain-john-brown]
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Of what veil does Thoreau speak and what does he mean by being missing in this passage from "A Plea for Captain John Brown"?
In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Thoreau writes:
This event advertises me that there is such a fact as death—the possibility of a man’s dying. It seems as if no man had ever died in America before; ...
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What did Thoreau mean in the "treason" passage from "A Plea for Captain John Brown"?
In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Thoreau writes:
Treason! Where does such treason take its rise? I cannot help thinking of you as you deserve,
ye governments. Can you dry up the fountains of thought?...
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What does Thoreau mean about counting votes in this passage?
In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Thoreau writes:
A man does a brave and humane deed, and at once, on all sides, we hear people and parties declaring, “I didn’t do it, nor countenance him to do it, ...
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What is meant by Thoreau in "A church that can never have done with excommunicating Christ while it exists!"?
In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Thoreau writes:
A church that can never have done with excommunicating Christ while it exists! Away with your broad and flat churches, and your narrow and tall ...
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What does Thoreau mean about the Tract Society printing the story of Putnam?
In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Thoreau writes:
“Served him right”—“A dangerous man”—“He is undoubtedly insane.” So they proceed to live their sane, and wise, and altogether admirable lives, ...
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