Ambrose Bierce Quotes
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
Bierce, Ambrose. The Devil's Dictionary. Neale Publishing Company, 1911.
Austin was jailed for sedition in Mexico but still fought for rights for Texans. General Antonio Lopez Santa Ana loosened land laws gong easy terms to Americans, made English an official language, introduced trial be jury and other reforms. Austin wrote from prison:. Austin received amnesty but within weeks, his reaction to Santa Ana's excesses in putting down the Zacatecas Rebellion with rape and pillage and killing more that a thousand civilians. Austin became an independista.
The British Government had offered a £20,000 prize for the first person who developed a practical method of determining longitude at sea. Most of the university, military and religious scientists of the day worked on astronomical instrument approaches but Harrison, a relatively unknown clockmaker with no social or scientific credentials, came up with an incredibly accurate clock that would function at sea and immediately calculate the longitude. The scientific establishment refused to certify Harrison for the price even after the British Navy had determined that his method worked. At the urging of the King, Parliament voted him the money.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran. His book The Devil's Dictionary was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature"; and his book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (also published as In the Midst of Life) was named by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.
