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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
t with Dr. Buckland, about half past 9 o'clock, to Dr. Burton's, the Professor of Divinity, who lives in quite a magnificent style, his rooms hung with velvet. There I found Dr. Chalmers, a very plain, earnest, simple man, of nearly seventy; Davies Gilbert, the late President of the Royal Society, fully seventy years old, but extremely pleasant and animated; and a large number of the canons of Christ Church, besides our host and his handsome, agreeable wife, Dr. and Mrs. Buckland, the younger Ct indeed flatter any man; but he also seems plain, straightforward, and sincere, speaking his broad Scotch as honestly as possible, and expressing his own opinions faithfully, but entirely considerate of the opinions and feelings of others. Mr. Gilbert's enthusiasm is more prompt and obvious than that of Dr. Chalmers, and it gratified me a good deal to hear him say, in the midst of the savants of Oxford, that Dr. Bowditch's La Place is the first work extant on Astronomy. But I think Dr. Buc
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
Sir, William, 175. Gener, 346. Geneva, visits, 152-158. George (Iv.), Prince Regent, 67. Georgetown, D. C., visits, 28, 30, 38. German language, difficulty of studying it, 11, 25, 26; high and low, 87. German literature, 87-89, 118-120; republic of letters, 99-102. German metaphysics, 96-99. German political and moral state, 102, 103. German universities, 75, 89, 90, 102. Gesenius, W., 111. Gibraltar, visits, 235, 236. Gifford, William, 58, 60, 62, 294. Gilbert, Davies, 405. Giustiniani, Prince, Nuncio, 188, 193, 194 note. Godwin, Mrs., William, 130, 294. Godwin, William, 130, 294. Goethe, Wolfgang A. von, 113-115, 165, 211, 455, 490 note, 500. Goltz, Count, 122. Gonzales, librarian, Madrid, 197. Gott, Messrs., 438. Gottingen, 11, 395; G. T. arrives at, 69; life there, 70-107, 116-121; description of, 74, 75; leaves there, 121. Gottingen University, 70, 72, 75, 76, 82; during the French War, 83, 84; Literary Club, 85; secret societies