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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 25: (search)
of his life, and he often said, as he laid it down, that it seemed to him as fresh and interesting as in the first of his several readings of it. With the Life of Scott he continued occupied until the last, having just reached the concluding volume when his strength failed, and even then desiring to have it read to him, thus linking his last hours with those of the friend and the object of admiration of his early days. Scott, Southey, and so on, and the memoirs are so rich. With Mr. Charles Francis Adams, who visited him that evening, he had a most spirited and agreeable conversation, in the course of which he expatiated, with more force and terseness of expression than usual, on a theory which had for some time taken strong hold on his thoughts. He said that the ancient civilizations of the world had been undermined and destroyed by two causes,—the increase of standing armies, and the growth of great cities; and that modern civilization had now added to these sources of decay a t
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
Index to vols. I. And II. A Abbotsford, I. 282-284, II. 160, 175. Abbott, Jacob, I. 405. Abercrombie, Mr., II. 91. Aberdeen, Earl of, II. 364, 365, 368, 372. Ackenbladt, J. D., I. 179. Acland, Dr., II. 432. Acton, Sir John (Lord), II. 873 and note, 374, 396, 397. Adair, Right Hon. Sir Robert, I. 269. Adams, Hon., Charles Francis, I. 459, II. 493. Adams, John, President U. S., I. 12, 13, 30, 330, 339, II. 408; death of, I. 377; eulogy on, by Webster, 378. Adams, John Quincy, President U. S., I. 12, 49, 54, 339, 349, 409, 459. Adams, Mrs., John, I. 13. Adams, Mrs., John Quincy, I. 349. Adderley, Right Hon. Charles, II. 358, 363, 419. Addington, Mr., I. 350, 411. Adelaide, Madame, II. 121. Agassiz, Louis, I. 421 and note, II. 231 and note, 310, 412, 414, 422, 423, 432, 438, 445 and note, 471, 482; letter to, 472. Aiken, Charles, I. 416. Alba, Count da, I. 248, 249. Albani, Cardinal, I. 181. Albany, Countess of, I. 183, 184, II. 57.