Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old SouthExplains the importance of the concept of honor in Southern society and examines family relationships, courtship, marriage, miscegenation, dueling, and slave insurrections. |
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Page 6 - His two sepulchral hems, however, broke into the very centre of his rebuke, with most singular effect, like a thought of the cold grave obtruding among wrathful passions. " Let go my garment, fellow ! I tell you, I know not the man you speak of. • What ! I have authority, I have — hem, hem — authority ; and if this be the respect you show for your betters, your feet shall be brought acquainted with the stocks by daylight, to-morrow morning!
Page 9 - May not a man have several voices, Robin, as well as two complexions?" said his friend. "Perhaps a man may; but Heaven forbid that a woman should!
Page 112 - For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two oclock on that July afternoon in 1863...
Page 7 - His face was pale as death, and far more ghastly ; the broad 322 forehead was contracted in his agony, so that his eyebrows formed one grizzled line ; his eyes were red and wild, and the foam hung white upon his quivering lip. His whole frame was agitated by a quick and...
Page 52 - Where as oftentimes many brabling women often slander and scandalize their neighbours for which their poore husbands are often brought into chargeable and vexatious suits, and cast in greate damages...
Page 5 - ... have you any objection to telling me the nature of your business with him then Robin briefly related that his father was a clergyman settled on a small salary at a long distance back in the country and that he and Major Molineux were brothers...
Page 39 - Ours is the property invaded; ours are the institutions which are at stake; ours is the peace that is to be destroyed; ours is the property that is to be destroyed; ours is the honor at stake — the honor of children, the honor of families, the lives, perhaps, of all — all of which rests upon what your course may ultimately make a great heaving volcano of passion and crime, if you are enabled to consummate your designs.
Page 129 - Some men call it conscience, but I prefer to call it the voice of God in the soul of man. If you listen and obey it, then it will speak clearer and clearer and always guide you right. But if you turn a deaf ear or disobey, then it will fade out little by little and leave you all in the dark and without a guide. Your life depends on heeding this little voice.
Page 108 - In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country.
Page 51 - There, my son, take this musket," she said, " and never disgrace it: for remember, I had rather all my sons should fill one honorable grave, than that one of them should turn his back to save his life.
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| Title | Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South Volume 737 of A Galaxy Book: American history Volume 737 of A Galaxy book ACLS Humanities E-Book American history Ethics and Behavior in the Pre-Modern American South Volume 737 of Galaxy Bks History e-book project |
| Author | Bertram Wyatt-Brown |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1983 |
| ISBN | 0195033108, 9780195033106 |
| Length | 597 pages |
| Subjects | › Medical / Pediatrics |
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