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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 95 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 38 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 27 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 16 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist 4 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 4 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 4 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
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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)
ampshire, where he knew there was a German dictionary, and translating Werther from John Quincy Adams's copy, stored at the Athenaeum. Before going abroad, though, he must make the American grand tour to Washington and Virginia. During the winter of 1814-15 he travelled by slow stages and sometimes under difficulties as far as Richmond, everywhere supplied with introductions to and from eminent persons such as John Adams, President Madison, and Thomas Jefferson. He met, among others, Eli Whitney, Robert Lenox, John Randolph, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton; attended the Hartford Convention; saw the ruins of Washington, then recently burned by the British; and at Monticello got the news of their defeat at New Orleans. Already he was exhibiting the social gifts which later distinguished him—a power of holding substantial conversation when that was in order; a tact that kept him wisely and quizzically silent during an outburst of bad temper on the part of Adams, and in the presen
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)
hnny comes marching home, 497 When Knighthood was in flower, 91, 288 When the Frost is on the Punkin, 61 Where does the Sky begin? 218 Whewell, 228, 234 Whipple, Edwin Percy, 125, 126 White, Andrew D., 177, 354 White, Horace, 358, 440 White, James, 157 White, R. G., 473-74, 475, 482 White, Stanford, 48 White Jacket, 156 White World, the, 169 Whither, 204, 204 n. Whiting, 348 Whitman, Walter, 17, 50, 52, 53, 65, 117, 137, 304, 569, 570 Whitney, Asa, 146 Whitney, Eli, 453 Whitney, Josiah, 467, 470, 475 Whitney, Thomas R., 345 Whitney, William Dwight, 461, 462, 464. 467-70, 475, 477 Whittaker, Frederick, 160 Whittaker, Thomas, 264 n. Whittier, 38, 47, 72, 113, 305, 306, 500, 549 Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Yo, Git along little Dogies, 515 Who wrote the Bible? 217 Why marry? 294 Whymper, Edward, 11 Widowers' houses, 286 Wiener, Leo, 602 Wife, the, 276 Wife of Usher's well, the, 507 Wigglesworth, Michael, 391 Wilde, Oscar, 107 Wilde