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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17: London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
hor of any book! Everybody is laughing at Willis's sketch, in a late New York Mirror, of Lord Durham. Marryat says that when Willis looked over his spoon, one spoon looked over another. Lady Blessington says it is all false, as also does Fonblanque, who was at the dinner. I have seen Disraeli. . . . Captain Marryat has returned full of blood and fury. He will probably write a book; if he does, he will show us no mercy. He says there is nobody in Congress worth any thing but Webster and Adams. Miss Martineau is diligently engaged on her novel, Dee<*>orook. which will be published in February or March. She has been exerting herself very much, and seems confident of no ordinary success. If she succeeds, she intends to follow it up by others. I left off my sketch at Milton without giving you my Christmas Day. In the forenoon, Whewell and I went to the Minster at Peterborough, where the church service is chanted. In the afternoon I read some of the manuscripts of Burke; af
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Athenaeum Club, Dec. 28, 1838. (search)
hor of any book! Everybody is laughing at Willis's sketch, in a late New York Mirror, of Lord Durham. Marryat says that when Willis looked over his spoon, one spoon looked over another. Lady Blessington says it is all false, as also does Fonblanque, who was at the dinner. I have seen Disraeli. . . . Captain Marryat has returned full of blood and fury. He will probably write a book; if he does, he will show us no mercy. He says there is nobody in Congress worth any thing but Webster and Adams. Miss Martineau is diligently engaged on her novel, Dee<*>orook. which will be published in February or March. She has been exerting herself very much, and seems confident of no ordinary success. If she succeeds, she intends to follow it up by others. I left off my sketch at Milton without giving you my Christmas Day. In the forenoon, Whewell and I went to the Minster at Peterborough, where the church service is chanted. In the afternoon I read some of the manuscripts of Burke; af
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 24: Slavery and the law of nations.—1842.—Age, 31. (search)
which he warmly commends the career of John Quincy Adams in Congress, and expresses his delight in igniting spark. I am at a loss to see how Mr. Adams can invoke Christianity as a cloak for such ence, and untiring industry. I still stick to Adams; John Quincy Adams. I admire the courage anJohn Quincy Adams. I admire the courage and talent he has recently displayed, and the cause in which they were exerted. I object most strenuo personality is too low for that House; and Mr. Adams erred very much when he spoke of the puny mieaches of decorum. . . But I still stick to Adams. His cause was grand. If I had been in the Hhe United States. He takes the place of John Quincy Adams, who fails on account of his political ewrote, Sept. 5, 1842:— I cannot approve of Adams's course on the tariff, and against John Tylerith friendly feelings toward England. Even J. Q. Adams relaxed in his opposition to all things Engalready, a copy of your Slavery Poems to John Quincy Adams. He deserves the compliment for his ear[3 more...]
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, chapter 30 (search)
omic questions. They had some public men, distinguished for their opposition to Slavery, —John Quincy Adams and Joshua R. Giddings being the most conspicuous examples,—who, though not enjoying favohat he lacked the moral elevation and nobler spirit of Channing. But, among public men, John Quincy Adams most enlisted his enthusiasm. Disapproving the ex-President's disregard at times of parlis glorious defence of liberty as the representative of Massachusetts in Congress. A note of Mr. Adams to Sumner, April 29, 1845, refers to a personal interview in Boston, which he hoped soon to hastory yet written, this generation can understand how strong must have been the hold which John Quincy Adams had upon young men, and upon all who, against organized capital, society, the traditions oster cannot be healed. Delirant reges. Van Buren's chances are too good. You will see that old Adams, with his iron flail, is still beating at the Twenty-first Rule excluding petitions on Slavery,