 I remember seeing father, the day after the election, sitting on one of the old-fashioned, rush-bottomed kitchen chairs, his head drooping on his breast, and his arms hanging down. ' Father,' said I,  Connecticut in Transition, 1775-1818 - Page 419by Richard Joseph Purcell - 1918 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lyman Beecher - Congregational churches - 1863 - 520 pages
...' Oh,' said he, 'the Democrats have beaten us all to pieces ! ' and a perfect wall arose." CE 13. " I remember seeing father, the day after the election,...rush-bottomed kitchen chairs, his head drooping on his breast, and his arms hanging down. 'Father,' said I, 'what are you thinking of? ' He answered, solemnly,... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - Biography - 1864 - 572 pages
...gone. 'Oh,' said he, 'the Democrats have beaten us all to pieces-!' and a perfect wail arose." CEB " I remember seeing father, the day after the election,...rush-bottomed kitchen chairs, his head drooping on his breast, and his arms hanging down. ' Father,' said I, ' what are you thinking of?' He answered, solemnly,... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1865 - 580 pages
...gone. ' Oh,' said he, ' the Democrats have beaten us all to pieces !' and a perfect wail arose." CEB " I remember seeing father, the day after the election,...rush-bottomed kitchen chairs, his head drooping on his breast, and his arms hanging down. ' Father,' said I, ' what are you thinking of?' He answered, solemnly,... | |
 | 1865 - 842 pages
...Democrats. That overset us. They slung us out like a stone from a sling." [The son then retords.] " I remember seeing father, the day after the election,...rushbottomed kitchen chairs, his head drooping on his breast, and his arms hanging down. Father, said I, what are you thinking of I He answered solemnly,... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - Congregational churches - 1866 - 594 pages
...sitting on one of the old-fashioned, rush-bottomed kitchen chairs, his head drooping on his breast, and his arms hanging down. ' Father,' said I, ' what are you thinking of?' He answered, solemnly, 'TnE CHURCH or GOD.'" It was a time of great depression and suffering. It was the worst attack I ever... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - Clergy - 1876 - 314 pages
...gone. 'Oh,' said he, ' the Democrats have beaten us all to pieces !' and a perfect wail arose."—HBS " I remember seeing father, the day after the election,...rush-bottomed kitchen chairs, his head drooping on his breast, and his arms hanging down. ' Father,' said I, 'what are you thinking of?' He answered solemnly,... | |
 | Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1876 - 604 pages
...was instigated by the Rev. Dr. Josluui It. Wilson, of Cincinnati. t His daughter Catherine gays : ' I remember seeing father, the day after the election, sitting on one of the old-fashioned rush-lmttotiinl kitchen chairs, his head drooping on his breast, and his un us hanging down. "Father,"... | |
 | Christianity - 1876 - 624 pages
...Cincinnati. t His daughter Catherine says : ' I remember seeing father, the day after the election, pitting on one of the old-fashioned rush-bottomed kitchen chairs, his head drooping on his breast, and his arms hanging down. " Father," said I, " what are you thinking of?" He answered, solemnly,... | |
 | Martin E. Marty - Religion - 1987 - 358 pages
...conversion: "I remember," said his son Charles, "seeing father, the day after the [disestablishing] election, sitting on one of the old-fashioned, rushbottomed kitchen chairs, his head drooping on his breast, and his arms hanging down. "Father," said I, "what are you thinking of?" He answered solemnly,... | |
 | Milton J. Coalter, John M. Mulder, Louis Weeks - Religion - 1992 - 356 pages
...position and had to compete with every other denomination. His son Charles recalled his father's reaction: "I remember seeing father, the day after the election,...rush-bottomed kitchen chairs, his head drooping on his breast, and his arms hanging down. 'Father,' said I, 'what are you thinking of?' He answered, solemnly,... | |
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