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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 110 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 42 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 24 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 16 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 16 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource] 14 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 12 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 12 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource] 12 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ld make a further correction of the report of his remarks, in the Richmond Enquirer; for, in making the first correction, the printers had made it much worse than it was originally.--He had some regard for the reputation of the University of Virginia, and insisted upon his Latin being reported correctly. The quotation from Virgil which he used was "Tanta ne ira animis erelestibus" They had printed it, "Tantan ira animis erelestib." He had, in his written speech, used a Greek quotation from Homer — the famous advice of Hipoloehus to his son, Glancus, when he went to the Trojan war "Alen arrestee sai upeirochon emmenal allan mede genos ischunemen "--"In every glorious act and strife to shine the first and best, and not to disgrace his birth." but, as they had no Greek type, he authorized them to leave that flourish out. He had, however, in his first correction, insisted that the printers should take the legs from Triptolemus Yellowley; but they had still got him as Triptolemus Yellowl