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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 3: birth and early Education.—1811-26. (search)
Simmons, belonged to the third or lowest division. The class had forty-five members the first year; but three years later it had only twenty-nine. While he was in the school, there were in older classes Robert C. Winthrop, George S. Hillard, George T. Bigelow, James Freeman Clarke, and Samuel F. Smith; and in the succeeding one, Wendell Phillips. The curriculum at the Latin School comprehended more than was then or is now required for admission to Harvard College. It included, in Latin, Adam's Latin Grammar, Liber Primus, Epitome Historiae Graecae (Siretz), Viri Romae, Phaedri Fabulae, Cornelius Nepos, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sallust's Catiline and Jugurthine War, Caesar, Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, the Agricola and Germania of Tacitus, and the Odes and Epodes of Horace. In Greek, it included Valpy's Greek Grammar, the Delectus Sententiarum Graecarum, Jacob's Greek Reader, the Four Gospels, and two books of Homer's Iliad. Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods introduced the
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 5: year after College.—September, 1830, to September, 1831.—Age, 19-20. (search)
Monday Evening, Aug. 29, 1831. my dear friend,—. . . I can fully sympathize in your feelings arising from the severance from your studies. Tower had been obliged to suspend his studies in order to take charge of the mercantile business of his father, who was then ill. Yet I see in it much room for hope. Your mind will be brought at once into the hard conflict of the world. You will transact business; and get initiated into those perplexities which, sooner or later, all of the sons of Adam must meet. You will confirm yourself in a knowledge of the world, and wear off the academic rust with which exclusive students are covered. Time will allow you, I know (for I know you will lose no time), to prosecute your law with profit; and you will find in your newly assumed cares a grateful change, perhaps, from the abstract speculations in which Blackstone and Kent and Fearne will engage you. And more than all, you will have the consciousness that you are forwarding the wishes of your
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
s name, And he that slew us gave us deathless fame! W. G. Cookesley, a Master at Eton. I like the versification of these very much. Let passing sportsmen hail the favor'd spot Where fell two woodcocks at a single shot; Fell by a hand for different deeds more known, Imparting grace and breath to shapeless stone. Once more he bids them die, and once again Start into life, demanding to be slain. Master of either art, this vase to fame, Chantrey! shall give thy chisel and thine aim. Sir Robert Adam. Very good. From kindred cocks, when robb'd of life, How wide the fate we boast! Their chisel is the carving-knife, Their bed, a bed of toast; Whilst Chantrey's hand, by which we fell, Of magic power possessed, Bids us—our wondrous tale to tell— On marble bed to rest. Sir Hussey Vivian, Master-General of Ordnance. These are pleasant and humorous. In sport immortal as in art, Chantrey is gifted to outgo All others; 'tis his happy part To double all that they can do. R. W