While Ross and Cockburn were hastily burning the White Hous… - Henry Adams

" "
While Ross and Cockburn were hastily burning the White House and Department buildings, anxious only to escape, and never sending more than two hundred soldiers beyond Capitol Square, the President, his Cabinet, his generals, and his army were performing movements at which even the American people, though outraged and exasperated beyond endurance, could not but laugh.

Henry Adams

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About Henry Adams

Henry Brooks Adams (16 February 1838 – 27 March 1918) was a U.S. historian, journalist, novelist and educator. He was the great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Pen Names: Frances Snow Compton

Native Name: Henry Brooks Adams

Alternative Names: Henry B. Adams

All quotes from Henry Adams Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Henry Adams:

John Buchan Mary McCarthy G. K. Chesterton E. M. Forster Robertson Davies

Additional quotes by Henry Adams

Another Byzantine miracle was an original version of Shylock. Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists plundered the Church legends as freely as their masters plundered the Church treasuries, yet left a mass of dramatic material untouched.

Young men most needed experience. They could not play well if they trusted to a general rule. Every card had a relative value. Principles had better be left aside; values were enough.

He was thunderstruck to learn that Senator Sumner privately denounced the course, regarded Mr. Adams as betraying the principles of his life, and broke off relations with his family.

While Ross and Cockburn were hastily burning the White House and Department buildings, anxious only to escape, and never sending more than two hundre… - Henry Adams

About Henry Adams

Also Known As

Go Premium

Additional quotes by Henry Adams

Limited Time Offer