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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 10 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 8 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 4 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 2 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work. 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President, appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
, is not older than the days of Peter the Great, and he had to visit lands where the sun shone to procure the exotic and transplant it to his bleak domains. Germany, like Russia, is indebted to her conquest by the Sarmatians — a comparatively southern people — for a civilization which is not indigenous. The sunny land of France, inhabited by a people of Roman descent, and England, whose controlling element of society is of Norman origin, are the masters of the world. Who was Raphael ? Who Canova ? Who Dante ? Who Columbus ? Who Napoleon ? Italy, even in her old age, has given to the world a constellation of genius and energy, made up of stars of the first magnitude, which will shine on till the firmament above is rolled up like a scroll. The traveler who now visits Europe to behold the wonders of science, energy and art, does not go to Russia, Sweden Denmark or Norway. He finds there a very gluttonous and animal people, but not superior knowledge and refinement. The Northern