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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bancroft, George, (search)
wenty years of age. He resided some time in Berlin in the society of distinguished scholars, and on his return home, in 1822, he became a tutor of Greek in Harvard University. He published a volume of poems in 1823. and in 1824 a translation of Heeren's Politics of ancient Grecce. In 1823, in conjunction with J. G. Cogswell, he established the celebrated Round Hill School, at Northampton, Mass. While in the German universities, Mr. Bancroft studied with avidity whatever was taught in them, but made history a specialty. His chief tutors there were Heeren. Eichhorn, and Blumenbach. At Berlin he became intimate with Wilhelm von Humboldt and other eminent scholars and philosophers. At Heidelberg he spent some time in the study of history with Schlosser; and in Paris he made the acquaintance of Alexander von Humboldt, Cousin, and others. At Rome he formed a friendship with Chevalier Bunsen: he also knew Niebuhr. While engaged in the Round Hill School, Mr. Bancroft completed the fir
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, IX: George Bancroft (search)
purposes of study, that he might afterwards become one of the corps of Harvard instructors. Accordingly, Bancroft was selected, and went, in the early summer of 1818, to Gottingen. At that time the University had among its professors Eichhorn, Heeren, and Blumenbach. He also studied at Berlin, where he knew Schleiermacher, Savigny, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. At Jena he saw Goethe, and at Heidelberg studied under Schlosser. This last was in the spring of 1821, when he had already received hiswell, who held on two years longer, retired with health greatly impaired and a financial loss of twenty thousand dollars. Thus ended the Round Hill School. While at Round Hill, Mr. Bancroft prepared some text-books for his pupils, translating Heeren's Politics of ancient Greece (1824) and Jacobs's Latin Reader (1825),--the latter going through several editions. His first article in the North American Review, then the leading literary journal in the United States, appeared in October, 1823,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
tely unknown here. If a man, who means to have any reputation as a scholar, sees his best friend once a week, it is thought quite often enough. As for acquaintance, except an English student in divinity, whom I see at my two lectures and the fencing masters, a German student, whom I do not visit, but who comes to see me about once a fortnight, and a modern Greek, whom I see about once a month, I have no acquaintance. Our Sunday evenings Everett and I commonly spend either at Blumenbach's, Heeren's, or Eichhorn's. To Elisha Ticknor, Esq., Boston. Gottingen, November 10, 1815. . . . .I wrote you, in my last, less decisively about my Greek instructor than about the rest. . . . This week, however, has satisfied me that he will soon become my favorite instructor, as his subject has always been my favorite branch. I learn the language entirely through the German. My lexicon, grammar, etc., are German, and from this language I mean hereafter to acquire my Greek, since the means i
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
College, G. T. nominated to a Professorship in, 116; accepts, 120; enters on Professorship, 319-326; attempted reforms in, 353-369, 379, 399-401. Hatfield. See Salisbury. Hatton, visits, 52. Haven, Miss, 68. Haven, N. A., 123 note, 316 note, 336, 337; letters to, 23, 49, 68, 338, 354, 359; letter from, 354 note, 377 note; death of, 377; memoir of, 377, 380. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 389. Hayne, Colonel Robert Y., 351. Hazlitt, William, 293, 294. Heber, Richard, 264, 267. Heeren, Professor, 80. Heidelberg, visits, 124. Hercolani, Prince, 166, 183. Herder, Baron von, 478. Herman, Professor, 108, 112. Hertzberg, Countess, 467. Heyne, Professor, 95, 105, 106. Higginson, Barbara. See Perkins, Mrs. S. G. Higginson, Stephen, 12, 13. Hill, Lord, Arthur, 442. Hillard, G. S., 326 note, 391 note. Hillhouse, Mr., 14. Hobhouse, (Sir) John Cam, 165. Hogg, James, 278. Hogg, Mr., 416. Holland, Dr (Sir Henry), 446. Holland House, 295, 408, 418. Holland, Lady,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
Head, Lady, II. 363, 365, 367, 369, 372, 384, 385, 386, 397, 398, 399, 416, 424, 425, 426, 428, 432, 478, 479, 487 Head, Sir, Edmund, II. 149, 180, 272, 363, 364, 365, 367, 369, 371, 384, 385, 386, 397, 398, 424, 436, 438, 439; letters to, 269, 270, 275, 285, 288, 289, 292, 293, 405, 406, 409, 416, 425, 427, 432, 433, 434, 461, 468, 471, 474, 476, 477, 481; letters from, 406, 429; death of, 482 and note. Head, Sir, Francis, I. 380, II. 177, 182. Heber, Richard, I. 264, 267. Heeren, Professor, I. 80. Heidelberg, visits, I. 124, II. 100, 101, 327. Heinrich, Professor, II. 28, 29, 30. Heldewier, II. 41. Helps, (Sir) Arthur, II. 374. Hercolani, Prince, I. 166, 183. Herder, Baron von, I. 478. Hermann, Professor, I. 108, 112. Herschel, Sir, John, II. 176, 178. Hertzberg, Countess, I. 467. Hess, M., II. 37. Heyne, Professor, I. 95, 105, 106. Higginson, Barbara. See Perkins, Mrs. S. G. Higginson, Stephen, I. 12, 13. Hillard, George Stillman, I. 326 note
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
Venice? It could not be effectually checked, till, by the Venetian law, no slave might enter a Venetian ship, and to tread the deck of an argosy of Venice became the privilege and the evidence of freedom. Fischer, in Hiine, i. 116. Marin, in Heeren, II. 260. The spirit of the Christian religion would, before the discovery of America, have led to the entire abolition of the slave-trade, but for the hostility between the Christian church and the followers of Mahomet. In the twelfth centues, like the glimmering traditions of Egypt and Phenicia, of Greece and of Rome, bear witness to the existence of domestic slavery and the caravans of dealers in negro slaves. The oldest Greek historian Herodotus, l. IV. c. 181—185. Compare Heeren, XIII. 187 and 231; Blair's Roman Slavery, 24. commemorates the traffic. Negro slaves were seen in classic Greece, and were known at Rome and in the Roman empire. It is from about the year 990, that regular accounts of the negro slave-trade exi
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
and the spirit of commercial gain and political oppression. Brougham's Colonial Policy, i. 21-23. Dionysius Halicarnassus, l. III. But of all on the subject, Heeren, XIII. 96—98. No sooner had Spain and Portugal entered on maritime discovery, and found their way round the Cape of Good Hope and to America, than a monopoly ent studied the interests of England, and would not repeal laws to please a neighbor. Clarendon, b. XIII. Parl. History, II. 1374, 5, 8. Godwin, III. 381—2. Heeren, i. 156. A naval war soon followed, which Cromwell eager- 1652 ly desired, and Holland as earnestly endeavored to avoid. The spirit of each people was kindllliance with Sweden, made not simply from a zeal for Protestantism, was to secure him Bremen, and Elsmore, 1657 and Dantzig, as his reward. Thurloe, VI. 478. Heeren's Works, i. 158. In the West Indies, his commanders planned the capture of Jamaica, which 1655 succeeded; and the attempt at the reduction of Hispaniola, then th
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
Chapter 8: The Pilgrims. The settlement of New England was a result of Chap VIII.} the Reformation; Heeren, i. 102, 103 not of the contest between the new opinions and the authority of Rome, but of implacable differences between Protestant dissenters and the established Anglican church. Who will venture to measure the consequences of actions by the apparent humility or the remoteness of their origin? The mysterious influence of that Power which enchains the destinies of states, overruling the decisions of sovereigns and the forethought of statesmen, often deduces the greatest events from the least commanding causes. A Genoese adventurer, discovering America, changed the commerce of the world; an obscure German, inventing the printing-press, rendered possible the universal diffusion of increased intelligence; an Augustine monk, denouncing indulgences, introduced a schism in religion, and changed the foundations of European politics; a young French refugee, skilled alike
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
lous of the growth of the French navy, England extorted the covenant, that the port of Dunkirk should be not merely abandoned, but filled up. A treaty of peace contained a stipulation for the ruin of a harbor! On the opening of the contest with France, William though bearing the standard of freedom, was false to the principle of the liberty of the seas,—prohibiting all commerce with France,—and to the protest of Hol- 1689. Aug. 22. land gave no other reply than that it was his will, and Heeren, i 349. that he had power to make it good. To the tory ministry of Queen Anne belongs the honor of having in serted in the treaties of peace a principle, which, but 1713. for England, would, in that generation, have wanted a vindicator. But truth, once elicited, never dies. Treaty with France, § 17. As it descends through time, it may be transmitted from state to state, from monarch to commonwealth; but its light is never extinguished, and never permitted to fall to the ground. A great
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
Ohio; the frontier of Florida was not traced. Neither did Spain relinquish the right of searching English vessels suspected of smuggling; and, though it was agreed that the assiento treaty should continue for four years more, the right was soon abandoned, under a new convention, for an inconsiderable pecuniary indemnity. The principle of the freedom of the seas was asserted only by Frederick II. Holland, remaining neutral as long as possible, claimed, under the treaty of 1674, freedom of Heeren 350 goods for her free ships; but England, disregarding the treaty, captured and condemned her vessels. On Chap. XXIV.} occasion of the war between Sweden and Russia, the principle was again urged by the Dutch, and likewise 1748 rejected by the Swedes. Even Prussian ships were seized; but the monarch of Prussia indemnified the sufferers by reprisals on English property. Of higher questions, in which the interests of civilization were involved, not one was adjusted. To the balance of p
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