| Frederick Law Olmsted - 1856 - 766 str.
...before him as if it were a book, and pronounced a short exhortation, as if he were reading from it. His manner was earnest, and the tone of his voice solemn...it would break into a shout or kind of howl at the dose of a long sentence. I noticed several women near him, weeping, and one sobbing intensely. I was... | |
| Frederick Law Olmsted - 1856 - 760 str.
...book, and pronounced a short exhortation, as if he were reading from it. His manner was earnest, ":d the tone of his voice solemn and impressive, except...it would break into a shout or kind of howl at the dose of a long sentence. I noticed several women near him, w*ping, and one sobbing intensely. I was... | |
| Austin N. Ward, Maria Ward - 1857 - 276 str.
...eulogistic of the virtues of the deceased, or more probably a strain of exhortation to the living. His manner was earnest, and the tone of his voice solemn and impressive. He finished, when a few handsful of earth were thrown into the grave, when those who had acted as bearers... | |
| Frederick Law Olmsted - 1861 - 756 str.
...before him as if it were a book, and pronounced a short exhortation, as if he were reading from it. His manner was earnest, and the tone of his voice solemn...feeling, in connection with the simplicity, natural, rnde truthfulness, and absence of all attempt at formal decorum in the crowd. I never in my life, however,... | |
| Frederick Law Olmsted - 1861 - 774 str.
...before him as if it were a book, and pronounced a short exhortation, as if he were reading from it. His manner was earnest, and the tone of his voice solemn...impressive, except that, occasionally, it would break into a shont or kind of howl at the close of a long sentence. I noticed several women near him, weeping, and... | |
| Grey Gundaker - 1998 - 304 str.
...before him as if it were a book, and pronounced a short exhortation, as if he were reading from it. His manner was earnest, and the tone of his voice solemn...sobbing intensely. I was deeply influenced myself by the unafThe piece of paper at the cornshucking and the handkerchief at the funeral seem clearly to have... | |
| Witold Rybczynski - 1999 - 488 str.
...and chanting, he had to admit that "I was deeply influenced myself by the unaffected fine feeling and the simplicity, natural, rude truthfulness and absence of all attempt at formal decorum in the crowd." He learned the journalist's knack of making his points though anecdotes. This passage recounts his... | |
| William A. Link - 2003 - 418 str.
...a dozen blacks threw dirt over the grave of a child and sang a "wild kind of chant." Olmsted noted the "unaffected feeling, in connection with the simplicity,...absence of all attempt at formal decorum in the crowd." The experience revealed a strange world about TABLE 1.3. Slave Population, 1860 Source: Inter-University... | |
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