With Sabre and Scalpel: The Autobiography of a Soldier and SurgeonHarper & Brothers, 1914 - 534 pages |
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Page v - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.
Page 101 - ... corresponds with the many attempts related in history at the assassination of kings and emperors. An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon and John Brown's attempt at §Harper's Ferry were, in their philosophy, precisely the same. The eagerness to cast blame on old England in the one case, and on New England...
Page 508 - Du bist wie eine Blume So hold und schön und rein; Ich schau dich an, und Wehmut Schleicht mir ins Herz hinein. Mir ist, als ob ich die Hände, Aufs Haupt dir legen sollt', Betend, daß Gott dich erhalte So rein und schön und hold.
Page 186 - The years creep slowly by, Lorena; The snow is on the grass again; The sun's low down the sky, Lorena; The frost gleams where the flowers have been.
Page 283 - Hitchcock ; it is hard on our men held in Southern prisons not to exchange them, but it is humanity to those left in the ranks to fight our battles. Every man released on parole, or otherwise, becomes an active soldier against us at once, either directly or indirectly.
Page 126 - FACTS — SKETCHES FROM THE BACKWOODS OF ALABAMA — THE GRAPE-VINE TELEGRAPH THE LIARS' TOURNAMENT THE SHERIFF'S STORY OF "WHEN THE YANKEES FIRST CAME" ALTHOUGH born a Presbyterian and brought up with a Bible and the Westminster Confession in either hand, I must own up to a mental reservation in accepting the definition of a lie as the "wilful perversion of fact." I would rather define a real lie as perversion of fact with intent to avoid an obligation or to harm another. Deep down in its heart...
Page 240 - Hello! " I said to myself, " if the general is crossing himself, we are in a desperate situation." I was on my horse in a moment. I had no sooner collected my thoughts and looked around toward the front, where all this din came from, than I saw our lines break and melt away like leaves before the wind. Then the headquarters around me disappeared. The graybacks came through with a rush, and soon the musket balls and the cannon shot began to reach the place where we stood.
Page 458 - The removal of the lower limb at the coxo-femoral articulation may be properly regarded as the gravest operation that the surgeon is ever called upon to perform, and it is only within a comparatively recent period that it has been accepted as a justifiable procedure. The most pressing risk is that of hemorrhage.
Page 502 - TO MY MOTHER Deal gently with her, Time! these many years Of life have brought more smiles with them than tears. Lay not thy hand too harshly on her now, But trace decline so slowly on her brow That (like a sunset of the northern clime, Where twilight lingers in the summer time, And fades at last into the silent night, Ere one may note the passing of the light) So may she pass — since 'tis the common lot — As one who, resting, sleeps, and knows it not.
Page 306 - Each one occupies the inner room of a casemate. The window is heavily barred. A sentry stands within before each of the doors leading into the outer room. These doors are to be grated, but are now secured by bars fastened on the outside. Two other sentries stand outside of these doors.