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Europe (search for this): chapter 4
Chapter 4: Mr. Sumner visits Europe. Chief-justice Story's letter. anecdote. Mr. Sumner's Reception in England. R. M. Milnes. another letter from Judge Story. Visit to Paris. Gen. ny. letter from William Prescott. Mr. Sumner's regard for Boston. his home on his return from Europe. Lyceum lectures. course of lectures to the Cambridge Law School. he Edits Vesey's Reports. outskirts of the show-houses.--Quarterly review. In the autumn of 1837 Mr. Sumner sailed for Europe, taking with him letters of introduction to distinguished gentlemen abroad, from Mr. Justice Stotian pencil, has succeeded to the Vatican whose thunders intermingled with the strifes of modern Europe. During his residence in Italy he often studied twelve hours a day: he mastered the Italian r, the eminent scientist Alexander von Humboldt, and other prominent savans. Mr. Sumner visited Europe for the sole purpose of study and observation. He left no opportunity for acquiring information
France (France) (search for this): chapter 4
of the Royal Court at Paris, observing the forms of procedure, received kindness from the judges, and was allowed to peruse the papers in the cases. His presence at some of these trials was noticed in the reports in the law journals. While in France, his thoughts were turned especially to the leading social questions of the day; and, from his intercourse with the liberal philosophers of that period, his views of prison-discipline, of universal peace and brotherhood, which came so grandly forth in his first remarkable orations, received fresh coloring and confirmation. Through Mr. Sumner many of the advanced ideas of France in respect to legal and social science were introduced into America. Lewis Cass was then our minister at Paris; and at his solicitation Mr. Sumner wrote a strong defence of our claim in respect to the northwestern boundary, which was published in Galignani's Messenger, and extensively copied by American journals, and which evinced the liberal policy of the writ
Apennines (Italy) (search for this): chapter 4
lowingly describes the country as the enchanted ground of literature, of history, and of art, strown with richest memorials of the past, filled with scenes memorable in the story of the progress of man, teaching by the pages of philosophers and historians, vocal with the melody of poets, ringing with the music which St. Cecilia protects, glowing with the living marble and canvas, beneath a sky of heavenly purity and brightness, with the sunsets which Claude has painted, parted by the Apennines (early witnesses of the unrecorded Etruscan civilization), surrounded by the snow-capped Alps and the blue, classic waters of the Mediterranean Sea. . . . Rome, sole surviving city of Antiquity, who once disdained all that could be wrought by the cunning hand of sculpture, Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, Credo equidem: vivos ducent de marmore vultus, who has commanded the world by her arms, by her jurisprudence, by her church, now sways it further by her arts. Pilgrims from afar, wh
Department de Ville de Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 4
. Mr. Sumner's Reception in England. R. M. Milnes. another letter from Judge Story. Visit to Paris. Gen. Lewis Cass. art Studies in Italy. glowing Description of the country. Thomas Crawford.d writings. It was racy, suggestive, thoughtful, matterful. From England Mr. Sumner went to Paris, where he found ready access to the highest literary circles. His knowledge of the French languw of Foreign Jurisprudence; and other famous men. He attended a whole term of the Royal Court at Paris, observing the forms of procedure, received kindness from the judges, and was allowed to peruse t to legal and social science were introduced into America. Lewis Cass was then our minister at Paris; and at his solicitation Mr. Sumner wrote a strong defence of our claim in respect to the northwhat collection of engravings which subsequently came to be one of the finest in America. From Paris Mr. Sumner repaired to Italy, the land of art, of poetry, and song. Here he gave himself up to
Antiquity (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ogress of man, teaching by the pages of philosophers and historians, vocal with the melody of poets, ringing with the music which St. Cecilia protects, glowing with the living marble and canvas, beneath a sky of heavenly purity and brightness, with the sunsets which Claude has painted, parted by the Apennines (early witnesses of the unrecorded Etruscan civilization), surrounded by the snow-capped Alps and the blue, classic waters of the Mediterranean Sea. . . . Rome, sole surviving city of Antiquity, who once disdained all that could be wrought by the cunning hand of sculpture, Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, Credo equidem: vivos ducent de marmore vultus, who has commanded the world by her arms, by her jurisprudence, by her church, now sways it further by her arts. Pilgrims from afar, where neither her eagles, her praetors, nor her interdicts ever reached, become the willing subjects of this new empire; and the Vatican stored with the precious remains of antiquity, and the touc
America (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter 4
tor, of The American Jurist, a quarterly journal of extensive circulation and celebrity among us, and without a rival in America. He is also the reporter of the court in which I preside, and has already published two volumes of reports. His privatfast-table one morning, with perhaps a dozen others, when he suddenly asked me how English literary reputations stood in America. We sometimes presume, said Mr. Sumner, to rejudge your judgments; to refuse a reputation where you give one, anling into fame; of M. Alexis de Tocqueville, who had recently published the first part of his great work on Democracy in America; and of other well-known authors. Not a moment of his time was wasted. He attended the debates of the Chamber of Deputgalleries of this city he began to make that collection of engravings which subsequently came to be one of the finest in America. From Paris Mr. Sumner repaired to Italy, the land of art, of poetry, and song. Here he gave himself up to the study
Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 4
e Lamartine, then becoming liberal in his political views; of Victor Hugo, then struggling into fame; of M. Alexis de Tocqueville, who had recently published the first part of his great work on Democracy in America; and of other well-known authors. Not a moment of his time was wasted. He attended the debates of the Chamber of Deputies, and the lectures of all the eminent professors in different departments,--at the Sorbonne, at the College of France, and particularly in the Law School. In Paris, says Mr. Sumner, in his argument against separate colored schools, Dec. 4, 1849, I have sat for weeks at the Law School on the same benches with colored persons listening, like myself, to the learned lectures of Degerando and of Rossi (the last is the eminent minister who has unhappily fallen beneath the dagger of a Roman assassin); nor do I remember observing, in the throng of sensitive young men by whom they were surrounded, any feeling towards them except of companionship and respect. H
Lewis Cass (search for this): chapter 4
Chapter 4: Mr. Sumner visits Europe. Chief-justice Story's letter. anecdote. Mr. Sumner's Reception in England. R. M. Milnes. another letter from Judge Story. Visit to Paris. Gen. Lewis Cass. art Studies in Italy. glowing Description of the country. Thomas Crawford. anecdote concerning Thomas Aquinas. Acquaintances made in Germany. letter from William Prescott. Mr. Sumner's regard for Boston. his home on his return from Europe. Lyceum lectures. course of lectures t brotherhood, which came so grandly forth in his first remarkable orations, received fresh coloring and confirmation. Through Mr. Sumner many of the advanced ideas of France in respect to legal and social science were introduced into America. Lewis Cass was then our minister at Paris; and at his solicitation Mr. Sumner wrote a strong defence of our claim in respect to the northwestern boundary, which was published in Galignani's Messenger, and extensively copied by American journals, and which
Charles Sumner (search for this): chapter 4
. Chief-justice Story's letter. anecdote. Mr. Sumner's Reception in England. R. M. Milnes. anot in Germany. letter from William Prescott. Mr. Sumner's regard for Boston. his home on his return--Quarterly review. In the autumn of 1837 Mr. Sumner sailed for Europe, taking with him letters osion touched that point. No, your lordship, Mr. Sumner instantly replied; but the point has been detood in America. We sometimes presume, said Mr. Sumner, to rejudge your judgments; to refuserose and placed his card in my hand, saying, Mr. Sumner, I thank you for what you have said of Carlyive, thoughtful, matterful. From England Mr. Sumner went to Paris, where he found ready access tcularly in the Law School. In Paris, says Mr. Sumner, in his argument against separate colored scr minister at Paris; and at his solicitation Mr. Sumner wrote a strong defence of our claim in resperned it for themselves. With what delight Mr. Sumner again beheld the domes of Boston, and how we[11 more...]
Rossi (search for this): chapter 4
n authors. Not a moment of his time was wasted. He attended the debates of the Chamber of Deputies, and the lectures of all the eminent professors in different departments,--at the Sorbonne, at the College of France, and particularly in the Law School. In Paris, says Mr. Sumner, in his argument against separate colored schools, Dec. 4, 1849, I have sat for weeks at the Law School on the same benches with colored persons listening, like myself, to the learned lectures of Degerando and of Rossi (the last is the eminent minister who has unhappily fallen beneath the dagger of a Roman assassin); nor do I remember observing, in the throng of sensitive young men by whom they were surrounded, any feeling towards them except of companionship and respect. He became personally acquainted with several of the most eminent jurists,--with Baron Degerando, renowned for his works on charity; with Pardessus, at the head of commercial law; with Foelix, editor of the Review of Foreign Jurisprudence;
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