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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 25: (search)
en were carried to Paris. I wish you, he said, to take notice, and to remember that this statement is not true. When I wrote and printed it, it was an accepted fact in the history of the time, believed all over Europe then, and for a long while afterwards. But subsequent researches have shown that the Duke was not there. See to it that the passage is corrected. On the tenth day of his illness he was moved into his beloved library for the last time, and early in the morning of the 26th of January he ceased to breathe. And so gently ended a long life which had been filled to the brim with intellectual activity, and with labors useful to the mental life of his time, and to the young and the poor around him. He died without suffering or long decay; and, like his father, he was ready to go; like him, when he came to his deathbed, there was nothing disturbing his mind, he had nothing to do but to die. Looking back over this long life, we see an unusual consistency in the framew
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
1850. Visit to Washington, 263, 264. 1852-67. Connection with Boston Public Library, 299-320. 1856-57. Third visit to Europe, 321-400; London, Brussels, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, Florence, 311-315, 321-311; winter in Home, 315, 316, 341-349; Naples, Florence, Turin, Paris, London, 317, 349-404. 1857-70. In Boston, 404-498. 1859-64. Life of Prescott, 436-440, 444, 449-456. 1861-65. Civil war, 433-435, 440-444, 446-449, 458-461. 1866-70. Summers at Brookline, 457, 485, 488. 1871. January 26, his death in Boston, 494. Ticknor, George, early advantages, I. 1; examined in Cicero's Orations and the Greek Testament, and admitted to Dartmouth College at 10 years old, 6; life at College from 14 to 16 years old pleasant and safe, but not laborious, 7; during eight succeeding years, uncommon relations with the most prominent men in Boston, 8, 9, 10 and note; resolving to devote himself to letters, seeks information about German Universities, and studies German, 11, 12, 24; club for