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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.) 18 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.) 10 0 Browse Search
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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.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Disunion, early threats of. (search)
lved to try its efficacy in the case in question. All through the years 1803 and 1804 desires for and fears of a dissolution of the Union were freely expressed in what were free-labor States in 1861. East of the Alleghanies, early in 1804, a select convention of Federalists, to be held in Boston, was contemplated, in the ensuing autumn, to consider the question of disunion. Alexander Hamilton was invited to attend it, but his emphatic condemnation of the whole plan, only a short time before his death, seems to have disconcerted the leaders and dissipated the scheme. The Rev. Jedidiah Morse, then very influential in the Church and in politics in New England, advocated the severance of the Eastern States from the Union, so as to get rid of the evils of the slave system; and, later, Josiah Quincy, in a debate in the House of Representatives, expressed his opinion that it might become necessary to divide the Union as a cure of evils that seemed to be already chronic. divorce laws
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Electricity in the nineteenth century. (search)
the magnetic effects of electric currents by Arago, Ampere, and the production of the electro-magnet by Sturgeon, together with the very valuable work of Henry and others, made possible the completion of the electric telegraph. This was done by Morse and Vail in America, and almost simultaneously by workers abroad, but, before Morse had entered the field, Prof. Joseph Henry had exemplified by experiments the working of electric signalling by electromagnets over a short line. It was Henry, inMorse had entered the field, Prof. Joseph Henry had exemplified by experiments the working of electric signalling by electromagnets over a short line. It was Henry, in fact, who first made a practically useful electro-magnet of soft iron. The history of the electric telegraph teaches us that to no single individual is the invention due. The Morse system had been demonstrated in 1837, but not until 1844 was the first telegraph line built. It connected Baltimore and Washington, and the funds for defraying its cost were only obtained from Congress after a severe struggle. The success of the Morse telegraph was soon followed by the establishment of telegraph
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Electro-magnetic Telegraph. (search)
Electro-magnetic Telegraph. This invention, conceived more than a century ago, was first brought to perfection as an intelligent medium of communication Morse apparatus, circuit and battery. beteen points distant from each other by Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse (q. v.), of New York, and was first presented to public notice in 1838. In the autumn of 1837 he filed a caveat at the Patent Office; and he gave a private exhibition of its marvellous power in the New York University in January, 1838, when intelligence was instantly transmitted by an alphabet composed of dots and lines, invented by Morse, through a circuit of 10 miles of wire, and plainly recorded. Morse applied to Congress for pecuniary aid to enable him to construct an experimental line between Washington and Baltimore. For four years he waited, for the action of the government was tardy, in consequence of doubt and positive opposition. At the beginning of March. 1842, Congress Morse Key appropriated $30,000 for his
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Webber, Samuel 1759-1810 (search)
Webber, Samuel 1759-1810 Educator; born in Byfield, Mass., in 1759; graduated at Harvard College in 1784; entered the ministry; and became a tutor in Harvard in 1787; was Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy there in 1789-1804, and then became president. He was one of the commissioners appointed to settle the boundary-line between the United States and the British provinces; vicepresident of the American Academy; author of System of Mathematics; Eulogy On President Willard; and reviser of Jedidiah Morse's American universal geography. He died in Cambridge, Mass., July 17, 1810. Webster, Daniel
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.), Chapter 1: travellers and observers, 1763-1846 (search)
en included among the botanists of Philadelphia, is remembered for his description of Niagara Falls. But the influence was pervasive and general, so that geography proper soon became domesticated in this country. The Geography made easy of Jedidiah Morse, first published at New Haven in 1784, quickly went through a number of editions and transformations. About 1796 President Dwight of Yale, in his Travels, records that a work of Morse is studied by both freshmen and sophomores, probably refeMorse is studied by both freshmen and sophomores, probably referring to a revision of the more extensive American geography of 1789. Dwight himself made judicious use of it. The indefatigable Morse, though not a Humboldt, a Ritter, or a Leopold von Buch, was a lowly precursor of the European scientists who furnished the next generation with ideals in geography and travel. If territorial expansion and the development of geographical science are to be noted in studying the literature of travel, the general background of eighteenth-century thought must n
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.), Index. (search)
t inquiry into the nature and necessity of paper Currency, 95 Mohammed, 224 Moll Pitcher, 224 n. Moore, Thomas, 236, 243, 248, 255, 279, 281 Monikins, the, 302 Monitor, the, 117, 120 Montaigne, 12, 109, 187, 188, 208 Monterey, 280 Montesquieu, 119 Monthly magazine, the, 291 Monument of Phaon, the, 181 Monumental memorial of a late voyage, etc., A, 9 Morals of Chess, the, 101 More, Henry, 70 n. Morris, Colonel G. P., 241, 279 Morris, William, 261 Morse, Jedidiah, 187 Morse, S. F. B., 301 Morton, Nathaniel, 20, 22, 23, 27 Morton, Sarah Wentworth, 178, 285 Mose in California, 229 Mose in China, 229 Mourt's Relation, 19 Mowatt, Anna Ogden, 223, 229, 230 Murray, John, 249, 252, 255, 321 Murray, Mrs., Judith, 233 Murray, Lindley, 292 Muscle Seatoniance, 263 n. Musings (Dana), 240 Mystery of flowers, the, 267 n. N Nadowessiers Todtenlied, 212 Napoleon, 170, 185, 211 Narrative of surprising Conversions, 61
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.), Chapter 17: writers on American history, 1783-1850 (search)
Society his own manuscripts. One of the friends of Belknap and Hazard—and a connection of Hazard's by marriage—was Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), minister at Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was the author of the first American geography (1789), a booon (1824), a compilation which posterity does not esteem highly. But it served its day, and was for a time widely read. Morse was probably indebted to Hazard and Belknap for the impetus that set him to writing. The latter complained that it was only Morse who could make money out of what he wrote. When Morse published his thin work, two other men, Jared Sparks and Peter Force, were planning much greater enterprises. One was a New England man, a Harvard graduate, a minister of accepted sMorse published his thin work, two other men, Jared Sparks and Peter Force, were planning much greater enterprises. One was a New England man, a Harvard graduate, a minister of accepted standing, and a member of the most select literary circle of Boston. The other was a self-taught printer's boy who became publisher and editor, with a passion for collecting. Each served well the cause of historical research. Jared Sparks was bo
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.), Index (search)
ll Flanders, 396 Moll Pitcher, 345 Monroe, James, 119 Monsieur Motte, 390 Montaigne, 229, 234, 236, 258 Montcalm, 11 Montesquieu, 126 Monthly Anthology, the, 162, 162 n., 163 Monthly magazine and American review, the, 161 Moore, Clement C., 408 Moore, Frank, 298, 299 Moore, Thomas, 57, 66, 230 Moral uses of dark things, 213 More, Hannah, 367, 397, 399 Morgan, Gen. J. H., 306 Morituri Salutamus, 40 Morris, George P., 152 Morris, Wm., 245, 254 Morse, Jedidiah, 115 Morse, S. F. B., 174 Mortal Antipathy, a, 228, 233 Morton's hope, 134, 145 Moses Adams. See Bagby, George W. Mosses from an old Manse, 20 Mother Goose, 397, 408 Motley, John Lathrop, 129, 130, 131– 47, 228, 230, 231 Motley, Mary Benjamin, 134, 146 Motley Book, the, 152 Moultrie, General, William, 104, 105 Mountain of the lovers and other poems, 311 Mourner à la Mode, The, 243 Muhlenberg family, the, 197 Munroe & Co., 9 Murfree, Mary N., 360
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)
y nationalistic, were also extremely popular, widely used, and greatly influential. In 1784 Jedidiah Morse issued his Geography made easy, the first American text on this subject. This was followed a, 1799). This period also witnessed the beginnings of statistical investigation, as notably Jedidiah Morse's The American geographer (Elizabethtown, 1789); and A view of the United States (Philadelphprevent himself being pirated in London. But when professional authorship began in America with Morse, See Book II, Chaps. I and XVII. the geographer, Webster, and Brown, a new influence was intcation and the latest great success could unite to rob him of even his slender gains, for though Morse and Webster and, later, Barnes, Andrews, Anthon, and Stephens made fortunes through the authorshurious to the commercial credit of a bookseller to undertake American works unless they might be Morse's Geographies, classical books, Watts's Psalms and Hymns, or something of that class. Hawthorne
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)
rican Editors of Shakespeare, 483 n. American farmer, the, 432 American geographer, the, 431 American geography (Morse), 401 American historical Review, the, 174, 303 American Humour, 27 n. American Husbandry, 430 American Imperiathe Reverend Mr. Thomas Shepard, 533 Elementary Latin composition (Allen and Greenough), 463 Elements of geography (Morse), 401 Elements of political economy (Newman), 434 Elements of political economy (Perry), 435 Elements of polit of the great Salt Lake, the, 151 Morning call (San Francisco), 4 Morris, Clara, 271 Morris, G. S., 239 n. Morse, Jedidiah, 401, 431, 546, 54 Morse, S. F. B., 345, 348 Morte d'arthur, 17 Morton, Martha, 290 Morton, Nathaniel, 533 nesis, the, 207 Universal elements of the Christian religion, the, 214 Universal Gazetteer, 432 Universal geography (Morse), 401 Universities in France, 423 University College (London), 460 University of the South, 305 Unmanifest de