 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1885 - 684 sider
...He had a right to claim this. until at last came this reply, — that he " would not walk out of the prison if the door was left open." He added, as a...said : " He saved others ; himself he cannot save." Here is touched the secret of Brown's character, — absolute reliance on the Divine, entire disregard... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 706 sider
...rescue, he gave no final answer, until at last came this reply,—that he " would not walk out of the prison if the door was left open." He added, as a...that of Socrates, which history will not fail to hold up,—that Person of whom his slayers said: "He saved others; himself he cannot save." Here is touched... | |
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He added, as a personal reason for this choice, that his relations with Captain Avis, his jailer, were such that he should hold it a breach of trust to be rescued. There is an example even higher than that of Socrates, which history will not fail to hold... 