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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 6 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 4 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 2 0 Browse Search
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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 2: (search)
is not equal to the armor. This was the condition of Charles Sumner. His tastes and inclinations also led him to the belles-lettres and humanities. He practically took, as every one who means to make the most of his abilities will do, a kind of elective course. He gave himself to the study of history, of rhetoric, eloquence, and poetry. He read with zest and keen avidity the works of the great masters. He was fascinated by the splendid diction of Hume and Gibbon, the charming style of Addison and Goldsmith, the glowing eloquence of William Pitt, of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and of Edmund Burke. His imagination was enkindled by the golden thoughts of Dante, Milton (always with him a favorite), Dryden, Pope, and Shakspeare. With these immortal geniuses he lived, and from them drew his inspiration. He strolled, moreover, into distant and untrodden fields of literature, and, as the bee, selected honey from unnoticed flowers. Here he gathered sweets from some French poet of the
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 17: (search)
resident and Congress. removal of Mr. Stanton. impeachment of the president. a letter to Mr. Stanton. Financial reconstruction. equal Suffrage. the Alabama claims. the Cubans. the Dominican treaty. rupture with Gen. Grant. displacement of Mr. Sumner. speech on San Domingo. The laws, the rights, The generous plan of power, delivered down From age to age by our renowned forefathers, So dearly bought, the price of so much blood,--Oh! let it never perish in our hands. Cato, by Joseph Addison. His public conduct was such as might have been expected from a spirit so high, and an intellect so powerful. He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind,--at the very crisis of the great conflict between liberty and despotism, reason and prejudice. That great battle was fought for no single generation, for no single land.--Thomas B. Macaulay. By the surrender of the rebel army, which was soon followed by the capture of Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1865, the