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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 31: the prison—discipline debates in Tremont Temple.—1846-1847. (search)
quoted, without adopting, the still stronger animadversions of foreign writers. Provoked by what he thought to be Mr. Eliot's overbearing manner and personal reflections on Dr. Howe and himself, Sumner made in his second speech several personal references to Eliot, using terms hardly proper for a young man to apply to his seniors, except under provocation. Some of Sumner's friends thought his personal references in this debate needlessly cutting. E. P. Whipple in Harper's Magazine, May, 1879, p. 276. I will borrow, he said as he began, from the honorable treasurer, with his permission, something of his frankness without his temper,—a thrust which, an eye-witness says, made Mr. Eliot start as if he had been shot Later on in the speech Sumner spoke of him as the Achilles of the debate, impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer,—saying also that he had in the course of a short speech contrived to announce himself as treasurer of the Boston Prison Discipline Society, next as treasure
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
have been sought from the time of the Romans for the cure of rheumatism and other diseases. The establishment has been much changed since 1858, being enlarged after the cession of Savoy to France. The town is hemmed in by hills; and within two miles is Lake Bourget, celebrated by Lamartine, on the shore of which, in the monastery of Haute Combe, are the tombs of the princes of the House of Savoy. In this retreat, Sumner lodged at the Hotel Royal, now Hotel d'aix, and had room 47. In May, 1879, the writer met at Aix M. Paul Guibert, son of the proprietor of the hotel when Sumner was there, and also met Dr. Davat. then far more quiet than now, Sumner remained three weeks, taking baths, hot and cold, at 7 A. M., under the direction of Dr. Davat, the resident physician, and carried from and to his hotel, as is the custom, on a chair or divan, wrapped in a sheet. He rose late, taking breakfast at 11 A. M., and passing four or five hours of the day on his bed, and retired at eight.