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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs in New York. (search)
William Makepeace Thackeray.
This brilliant and mordant writer was born in Calcutta in 1811.
His father, a man of good family, was in the East India Company's civil service.--Young Thackeray was sent at an early age to England, and received the best part of his education at the Charter house School.
He then entered the University of Cambridge, but did not take a degree there, owing probably to the fact that he came into possession of a legacy of £20,000, which left-him free to consult his own tastes.
He chose he profession of an artist, and spent several years on the continent in travel and study.
Of the proficiency which he attained in this pursuit we can form some idea from the capital drawings with which he illustrated some of his earlier works.
A newspaper speculation in which he embarked with his father in London swallowed up the greater part of the fortune which he had acquired on coming of age, and he decided on devoting himself to literature as a profession.
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A case and a parallel.
In the year 1811, Marshal Massens, "the spoiled child of victory," as he had been styled, with an army of 70,000 veterans, the flower of Napoleon's legions, undertook the invasion of Portugal by the Northern route.
He had been ordered to take Lisbon at all hazards, and to drive the English into the sea. "On to Lisbon" was the word, and not a man in the French army doubted that Lisbon would soon be captured.
Wellington, with an army of 60,000 men, 35,000 of them British soldiers, and the rest Portuguese, who had proved themselves equal to any soldiers on the continent, took post on the crest of the Sirra de Busaco, a long range of lofty heights, which lay directly across the line of the invader's march.
Massena, by inclining to his right, might have passed entirely around this formidable position, and pursued his way without the loss of a single man. But the direct road to Lisbon ran over the mountain, and he determined to "fight it out on that line, if i
The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--one thousand Dollars Reward. (search)
Death of Edward Everett.
The last Northern papers announce the death of Edward Everett.
His biography in this country may be condensed in the facts that he was born in Massachusetts and died there.
In the papers, of his own country, we find the following notice of his decease:
"Edward Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in April, 1794. When but thirteen years of age he entered Harvard College, graduating with high honors in 1811; and after two years of preparatory study in the Theological School at Cambridge, he was elected to succeed the celebrated Rev. Dr. Buckminster, at the Brattle Street Church, Boston.
Although a youth of bat nineteen, he at once took a position among the divines of that city second to none.
In theology, as in every other profession of his after life, he mounted rapidly to distinction, and Judge Story esteemed him "the most eloquent of preachers." In 1814 he was elected to the Chair of Greek Literature at Cambridge, with the desire on th