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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 60 0 Browse Search
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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 27 1 Browse Search
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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 16 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 6 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)
together with Jacobs's Greek Reader, Mattaire's Homer, and other books preparatory to admission to Harvard College. The late Joseph Palmer, M. D., was an assistant instructor in the school, but was not then conscious that he was moulding the spirit of one whom he was afterwards to greet as the leading speaker on behalf of freedom in America. Among his school companions at this period were George T. Bigelow, Robert C. Winthrop, George S. Hillard, James Freeman Clarke, Thomas B. Fox, William H. Channing, Samuel F. Smith the poet, and others who have since attained celebrity. Although Charles Sumner did not hold the highest rank in scholarship on the appointed lessons of his class, he was distinguished for the accuracy of his translations from the Latin classics, and for the brilliancy of his own original compositions. He received in 1824 the third prize for a translation from Sallust; when one of the examiners remarked, If he does this when a boy, what may we not expect of him when
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 5: (search)
the determination to employ in its overthrow whatever ability he possessed. Although the conditions of annexation had been accepted by its legislature, Texas had not yet actually become a State of the Republic. Strenuous efforts were therefore made by the friends of freedom to prevent the consummation of this slaveholding scheme. Conventions were held, petitions signed, in various sections of our State, and eloquent speeches made by Edmund Quincy, Henry Wilson, Theodore Parker, William Henry Channing, R. W. Emerson, and others, with the design of influencing Congress on the final vote, On the 4th of November, 1845, a large meeting was held in Faneuil Hall in Boston, at which resolutions drawn up by Mr. Sumner were presented, setting forth that the annexation of Texas was sought for the purpose of increasing the market in human flesh, of extending and perpetuating slavery, and of securing political power, and in the name of God, of Christ, and of humanity, protesting against its a
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 6: (search)
Chapter 6: Mr. Sumner's Eulogy on Mr. Justice Story. his Tribute to the memory of John Pickering. oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University. reference to Dr. Channing. eloquent Extract from the oration. Mr. Sumner's method of meeting the slave power. his Compliment to John Q. Adams. his Apostrophe to Daniel Webster. his letter to R. C. Winthrop. his Distrust of the Whig party. argument on the Validity of Enlistments. speech on the war, in Faneuil Hall. White slavery in the Barbary States. his interest in Prison Discipline, oration on fame and glory. Extract from the same. speech in the Whig Convention at Springfield. Et magis, magisque viri nunc gloria claret. Rest not! life is sweeping by: Go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime Leave behind to conquer time. Goethe. In the autumn of this year (1845), Mr. Sumner was called to mourn the loss by death of his beloved friend and counsellor, Chief Justice Story