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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 40 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 17 1 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 16 2 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 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
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 1 Browse Search
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 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)
rature, which he wished to emancipate from provincialism by bringing it into the great Continental European tradition. His discourse On the necessity and means of making our national literature independent of that of great Britain (1834) is one of the earliest American documents to exhibit a comparative study of literature. Closely associated with DuPonceau both by personal friendship and by the broad humanism of his work was John Pickering (1777-1846), a son of the more celebrated Timothy Pickering. In Salem and in Boston John Pickering continued his literary studies, becoming by 1806 an adept in the Hebrew and probably in one or two Semitic tongues beside, but declining an appointment as Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages at Harvard. He likewise declined (1814) the newly established Eliot Professorship of Greek Literature, of which Edward Everett thereupon became the first incumbent. Pickering's Greek and English Lexicon (1826）—a translation of Schrevel
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)
ers of France in the New World, the, 190 Piper, the, 290, 291 Pipes of Pan, the, 292 Pique, 271 Piscatory eclogues, 446 Pit, the, 93 Pitkin, W. B., 264 Plain and comprehensive grammar (Webster), 475 Phoenix, John, 7 Physical geology of the Grand Canyon district, 159 Physical Observations in the Arctic Seas, 167 Physics and politics, 181 Piatt, John James, 59 Piatt, Sarah Morgan, 59 Picayune (New Orleans), 3 Pickering, J., 437, 448, 449, 451, 461 Pickering, Timothy, 448 Pictorial Bible (Harper's), 543 Plain language from truthful James, 53 Plan and method of education, 399 Plan of daily Examinations in moral virtues, 393 Platen, 467 Platiere, Roland de la, 569 Plato, 214, 238, 465 Plays natural and supernatural, 298 Plutarch, 465 Plymouth collection, 496 Po-ca-hon-tas, 268 Poe, 35, 98, 129, 305, 549 Poems (Emily Dickinson), 33 Poems, lyric and idyllic, 45 Poems of the Orient, 40 Poesien des Urwalds, 58