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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
the kind hospitality of three years before was renewed, was followed by a course of cathedrals and show-houses, on the northern route, from Ely to Alnwick, until the Scottish Border country was reached. The hills which we crossed, in order to strike the Tweed at its most favorable point, were dreary and barren enough, and the ranges of huts or hovels we saw, scattered through their ridges, in which live a sort of bondmen, of a peculiar character, were anything but agreeable to look upon. I did not before suppose that anything so nearly approaching servitude was still to be found in England; but here it is, not better than was the condition of the serfs in Bohemia before Joseph Il's time, or those in Silesia before they were liberated by the present King of Prussia. I doubt whether there is anything so bad now in Europe, out of Russia. William Howitt describes this condition of the people in his Rural Life of England, in a chapter on the Bondage System of the North of England.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
the republic in France. Germany is perhaps in a more convulsive state than any other country, being occupied at the same moment in reconstructing its general constitution and the constitution of its several states. The two greatest monarchies—Prussia and Austria—are shaken to their foundations; the last, above all, by the great difference of nations which are united under one crown, and which seem now inclined to separate into so many different kingdoms. With all that, two wars in the neighborhood,—the one of Prussia, or rather Germany, with Denmark, the other of Austria with Italy,—and, what is yet worse, the sense for legitimate order, even for property, when it suits not the opinions of the day, shaken to its foundation in the lower classes; the principles of socialism and communism diffusing themselves everywhere . . . . . But yet every one must endeavor to hold his post as long as he can, and perhaps the storm may pass away, and the stream return to regular channels,—not
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 15: (search)
mean. It has seemed to me, for many years, that such a free public library, if adapted to the wants of our people, would be the crowning glory of our public schools. But I think it important that it should be adapted to our peculiar character; that is, that it should come in at the end of our system of free instruction, and be fitted to continue and increase the effects of that system by the self-culture that results from reading. The great obstacle to this with us is not—as it is in Prussia and elsewhere—a low condition of the mass of the people, condemning them, as soon as they escape from school, and often before it, to such severe labor, in order to procure the coarsest means of physical subsistence, that they have no leisure for intellectual culture, and soon lose all taste for it. Our difficulty is, to furnish means specially fitted to encourage a love for reading, to create an appetite for it, which the schools often fail to do, and then to adapt these means to its grati
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 16: (search)
nowledge as eager as ever; while, at the same time, his benevolence seems to grow with his years. and the entertainment of a great Court dinner at Potsdam, on occasion of the arrival of the Grand Duke of Baden for his marriage with a princess of Prussia. This was Mr. Ticknor's only opportunity for conversation with the then reigning sovereign, Frederic William IV., whose varied accomplishments and versatile talent made a strong impression on him. Von Raumer and Count Raczynski, among old acquart . . . . Had a jolly good time at table with forty odd people, but chiefly with an old general, who went to England when the affiancing took place there, Of the Princess Royal. and is now just back from the Russian coronation; the Prince of Prussia; The present Emperor. and one of the dames d'honneur, of which I will give you an account. After dinner we were in the salon about an hour, and the King talked with me more than half the time; was truly agreeable, and sometimes scholar-like,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 24: (search)
received your Majesty's last kind and interesting letter, in which you spoke of it so justly. We all look, in this country, with great anxiety on the state of affairs in Europe. We do not see how a war is to be avoided next summer, and hardly comprehend by what statesmanship it has already been postponed so long. The ill-will of nations has no other effective mode of expressing itself, and is sure enough to reach this one at last. How strong the ill — will has become between France and Prussia, since the battle of Sadowa, we cannot measure as you can. But it is an old grudge, which has been festering in the hearts of Prussians and Frenchmen ever since the time of Napoleon the First. I witnessed it in both countries, when I was in Europe above fifty years ago, and it has never subsided since. In my country it is much the same. We are suffering from causes which go far back in our history, and which have been very active and formidable since the question of slavery began to be
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
ard, Dr., I. 422. Primary Schools of Boston, . 2 and note, 336. Prossedi, Princess, I. 182, 194 note. See Gabrielli. Provencal studies, I. 252, II. 487. Prussia, Frederic William III. King of, I. 502. Prussia, Frederic William IV. King of, II. 330, 331, 332, 333, 340, 341. Prussia, Prince of, II. 331 and note. PuPrussia, Frederic William IV. King of, II. 330, 331, 332, 333, 340, 341. Prussia, Prince of, II. 331 and note. Puibusque, A. de, II. 288, 355. Purgstall, Baroness, 11. 8. Putland, Mr. and Mrs., I. 425. Q Quarantine near Bologna, II. 46, 47. Quebec, visits, I. 386. Quetelet, M., I. 450. Quincy, lion. Josiah, I. 339, 345, 368. Quincy, Mrs. J., I. 345. Quinet, Edgar, II. 101, 127. R Raczynski, Count, I. 495, 501, II. Prussia, Prince of, II. 331 and note. Puibusque, A. de, II. 288, 355. Purgstall, Baroness, 11. 8. Putland, Mr. and Mrs., I. 425. Q Quarantine near Bologna, II. 46, 47. Quebec, visits, I. 386. Quetelet, M., I. 450. Quincy, lion. Josiah, I. 339, 345, 368. Quincy, Mrs. J., I. 345. Quinet, Edgar, II. 101, 127. R Raczynski, Count, I. 495, 501, II. 330. Radetzky, Marshal, II 336, 338. Radnor, Lord and Lady, 11. 178. Ralston, Mr., I. 278 note. Ramirez, II 41. Ramsay, Mrs. E, II 164. Ramsay, Rev. Edward (Dean), II. 164 and note. Rancliffe, Baroness, I. 458, 459. Randall, Miss, I. 312 and note, II. 104. Randohr, I. 175. Randolph, Colonel, I. 35. Rand