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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 52 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1863., [Electronic resource] 8 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 7 1 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 5 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 2 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
an faith in moulding the living material of his own day into the finer forms inherent in his country's institutions, Emerson, the most influential of our essayists, would have had a lesser hold on the minds of his fellow citizens; and the value of Higginson comes largely from a similar happy endowment. The ministry, whose record in our annals is so frequently interwoven with that of American literature, had its greatest literary figures in New England. A distinguished exception was Moncure D. Conway (1832-1907), who, like Higginson, gave up his pulpit because of his anti-slavery pronouncements. A Virginian by birth, he did his most important work as an editor in Boston, where he conducted The Dial and The Commonwealth; and as a lecturer in England, especially in his illuminating discourses during the Civil War. In later life, again in America, he wrote many papers of sterling worth, essays notable because of their high ethical plane; yet, lacking the authentic fire of genius, the
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
ch, 587, 588, 589, 590 Considerations on Lowering the value of Gold Coins, 426 Considerations on the currency and banking system of the United States, 430 Considerations upon the Act of Parliament whereby a duty is laid . . . on Molasses, 428 Conspiracy of Pontiac, 189 Constance Trescott, 90 Constitutional history of England, 197 Constitutional view of the late War between the States, 182 Contrast, the, 493 Control of Trusts, the, 442 Convict 999, 287 Convito, 488 Conway, Moncure D., 120 Cook, Joseph, 210 Cooke, John Esten, 67-68, 69 Cooke, P. St. George, 143 Cooke, Rose Terry, 86 Coolen Bawn, the, 511 Coomassie and Magdala, 163 Cooper, James Fenimore, 6, 66, 67. 68, 85, 89, 190, 227, 520, 549, 550 551, 563, 579 Cooper, Peter, 348 Cooper, Thomas, 433 Copernicus, 524 Copley, John, 498 Corea, The Hermit Nation, 155 Corleone, 88 Cormon, 271 Corneille, 591 Cornell, 41, 177, 354, 479 Corplanter, 154 Coronado, 621 Co