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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.) 8 0 Browse Search
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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 16: (search)
rasting the diplomatic mission of Dr. Franklin with that of John Slidell at Paris, and ingeniously tracing the celebrated Latin epigram, Eripuit Coelo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis, which was inscribed. on the portrait of the great philosopher, to its origin. In this charming essay the writer's intimate acquaintance with the French literary and political history of that period appears to great advantage. The Latin verse, as Mr. Sumner clearly shows, was prepared by the celebrated statesman Turgot, who formed it from the line, Eripuit fulmenque Jovi, Phoeboque saggittas, of the Anti-Lucretius, by Cardinal Melchior de Polignac. The cardinal derived his idea from the Astronomicon, an ancient poem by M[arcus Manilius, where the verse appears under the following form, Eripuitque Jovi fulmen, viresque tonandi, which has been translated, Unsceptred Jove,--the Thunderer disarmed. From the critical acumen displayed in this article, it might be supposed that Mr. Sumner had spent his life a
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 6: Franklin (search)
ne, Priestley, Price, Adam Smith, Robertson, Hume, Joseph Banks, Bishop Watson, Bishop Shipley, Lord Kames, Lord Shelburne, Lord Howe, Burke, and Chatham. Among Frenchmen he numbers on his list of admiring friends Vergennes, Lafayette, Mirabeau, Turgot, Quesnay, La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Condorcet, Lavoisier, Buffon, D'Alembert, Robespierre, and Voltaire. It is absurd to speak of one who has been subjected to the moulding of such forces as a product of the provinces. All Europe has wrought lied than his old ones. His respect for the popular will was inevitably heightened by his share in executing it in the thrilling days when he was helping his fellow-countrymen to declare their independence, and was earning the superb epigraph of Turgot: Eripuit fulmen coelo, sceptrumque tyrannis. His official residence in France completely dissolved his former antagonism to that country. In the early stages of the conflict his wrath was bitter enough towards England, but long before it was ove
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 8: American political writing, 1760-1789 (search)
mbers of the convention. The elaborate publication of documents, debates, and reports which commonly attends a modern state constitutional convention was conspicuously lacking. While the convention was in session, there was published at Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, in separate editions, the first volume of John Adams's Defence of the constitutions of government of the United States of America. This work, written and first published in London, was occasioned, the author states, by Turgot's sweeping attack upon the American theory of government, contained in a letter to Dr. Richard Price, in 1778, and published by Price in his Observations on the importance of the American Revolution, and the means of making it a benefit to the world (1785). Two additional volumes appeared in 1788. Works, IV, v. The prominence of the author gave the work, especially the first volume, some vogue; but the disorderly arrangement, the verbose and careless style, the many glaring inaccuracies a
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)
., 280 n. Tristram Shandy, 236 Triumph at Plattsburg, the, 222, 226 Triumph of Infidelity, 165 Trollope, Mrs., 207, 241 True relation, a (Smith), 16, 19 True relation of the Flourishing state of Pennsylvania, 151 True travels, the (Smith), 17, 18 Trumbull, Benjamin, 292 Trumbull, John, 139, 164, 171-173, 174, 233 Tucker, George, 320, 320 n. Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, 312 Tuckerman, Henry Theodore, 243, 244 Tudor, William, 240 Turell, Jane, 158, 159, 161 Turgot, 91, 106, 147 Twenty considerations against sin, 112 Twenty-six years of the life of an Actor-manager, 221 n. Two Admirals, the, 302 Two years before the mast, 321 Tyler, Pres., John, 250 Tyler, M. C., 135 n. Tyler, Royall, 180, 218-219, 227, 234, 235, 236, 287 Typee, 320, 321 U Uncle Tom's Cabin, 227, 227 n., 307 Under a Mask, 223 Under the Gaslight, 229 Unitarian Christianity, 331 United States magazine, the, 286 Universal beauty, 165 Univer
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
sell. The direct consequence of the Montreal riot cannot yet be foreseen, but I cannot doubt that it will in the end contribute to that inevitable consummation of annexation to the United States. There are natural laws at work which no individual and no parliament can control, and it seems to me that by these Canada is destined to be swept into the wide orbit of her neighbor. Canadians may say that this will not be, but nevertheless it will be. The omitted paragraph is a quotation from Turgot given in Sumner's Works, vol. XII. p. 45. . . . Meanwhile our people continue quite indifferent to Canadian affairs except as their startling character furnishes news under the telegraph head in the newspapers. The slaveholders would be, of course, against annexation, and the Northern States have not yet entertained the question. But Canada must make the advance. I cannot doubt that if Canada were admitted into our Union, her apparently incongruous races would be fused, as in Louisiana
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)
getown, D. C., 1817), which was translated from the unpublished French original. There is, however, no evidence that Jefferson profited from its perusal. On the other hand, Hamilton showed in his great state papers and notably in his two Reports on public credit (1790, 1795), as well as in his Report on manufactures (1791), that he possessed a remarkable acquaintance with economic principles as then understood. There is in fact no statesman of the eighteenth century, with the exception of Turgot, who combined more successfully the perspicacity of a great leader of men with the ability to present powerful and sustained reasoning on economic problems. The only other American statesman who can even remotely be compared to Hamilton is Gallatin, who even proved himself the superior of Hamilton as a technical financier. His principal contribution to fiscal science was the proof, long before it was recognized by the British economists, of the fallacy underlying the sinking fund. The chi
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)
titution of government in the sovereignty of the individual, the, 437 True interest of the United States . . . considered, the, 429 Truman, B. C., 352 Trumbull, 539, 542 Truth, the, 283, 284 Truth advanced, 535 Truth and fiction, 598 Tubingen (University), 468 Tucker, Beverley, 67 Tucker, George, 434, 438 Tucker, St. George, 495 Tucker, W. J., 215 Tuckerman, H. T., 18, 487 Tuckerman, Joseph, 215 Tulane University, 598 Tully, R. W., 281 Turgenev, 81, 105 Turgot, 430 Turner, F. J., 52 Turnermarsch, 581 Turn of the Screw, the, 104 Twenty Sermons, 218 n. Twin Beds, 295 Twining, W. J., 153 Two Brothers, the, 507, 509 Two lectures on political economy, 434 Two little girls in Blue, 513 Two orphans, the, 271 Two sisters, the, 507 Two tracts on the proposed Alteration of the tariff, 433 Two years before the Mast, 139 Two years in the jungle, 164 Tyler, 493 Tyndall, 181, 540 n. Typee, 156 Tyranny U
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
olbein on the margins; Bunyan's Bible; Dryden's Greek exercise-book studied by the poet when a boy at the Westminster School; Voltaire's tragedy of Mahomet, with his corrections; Pope's Essay on Man, with his revision in ink for a new edition; a gift copy of Thomson's Spring, with verses in the author's handwriting on the titlepage; Dr. Parr's Hobbes; The gift ,f Sir William Molesworth. and books which had belonged to Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth, a doge of Venice, Ben Jonson, Wordsworth, Turgot, and Napoleon. With these were autographs of reformers, popes, kings, statesmen, poets; and choicest of all to Sumner was the Album kept at Geneva, 1608-1640, in which Milton had recorded his name, an extract from Comus, and a line of Horace. Ante, vol. II. pp. 124, note; p. 351, note. Quaritch and other dealers in curiosities in London and Paris, as well as Sypher in New York, found in him a customer who rarely questioned their prices. He bought a large number of oil paintings, chiefly
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
net. Maurepas complied, and in July, 1774, the place of minister of the marine was conferred on Turgot, whose name was as yet little known at Paris, and whose artlessness made him even less dangerousr goes to mass, said the king, doubtingly, and yet consented to the appointment. In five weeks, Turgot so won upon his sovereign's good will, that he was transferred to the ministry of finance. Thiset, Bailly, La Harpe, Marmontel, Thomas, Condillac, Morellet, and Voltaire. Nor of them alone. Turgot, said Malesherbes, has the heart of L'Hopital, and the head of Bacon. His purity, moreover, gav from famine, and another want a market for its superfluous production. Out of this sad state Turgot undertook to lift his country. It is to you personally, said he to Louis the Sixteenth, to the f his new comptrollergeneral; I shall always support you. The exigencies of his position made Turgot a partisan of the central unity of power; he was no friend to revolutions; he would have confine
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 61: (search)
Chapter 61: Turgot and Vergennes. March—April, 1776. for a whole year the problem of grof the aristocracy of France to the reforms of Turgot. The parliament of Paris had just refused to to communicate his memorial on the colonies to Turgot, whose written opinion upon it was required. ing the determination of the court of France. Turgot took more than three weeks for deliberation, aof the state and the solace of the people. Turgot had been one of the first to foretell and to dthe greatest happiness of the greatest number; Turgot, by his earnest purpose to restrain profligatelved to retire. Maurepas, who professed, like Turgot, a preference for peace, could not conceive th, he prompted Maurepas to say to the king that Turgot was an enemy to religion and the royal authorience; the king neither comprehended nor heeded Turgot's advice, which was put aside by Vergennes as nd the necessity of preparing for war, neither Turgot nor Malesherbes was present. Vergennes was le[2 more...]
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