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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Nil Nisi Bonum. (search)
Nil Nisi Bonum. the old and amiable rule of speaking only with kindness of the dead, is one which, in this world of small comity, we have no wish to disregard; although it is one the final violation of which is simply a question of time and the natural result of historic doubts. All character is dubious. There may be those who with perfect honesty do not admire Fenelon, and do admire Diderot or Voltaire. Indeed, it is only when a human career is closed that we are in a position to estimate its value, purport and upshot. The public life of a public man is public property. We may not indecently hasten to draw his frailties from their drear abode; but the mere fact that he has gone to that account to which indeed the meanest and most magnificent natures must go, certainly affords no authority for slandering the living. If the late Mr. Rufus Choate, while he succeeded as nisi prius lawyer, failed as a statesman, we do not know that this gives Mr. Edward Everett, who has also fa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), entry 1598 (search)
tic temper and method the world over. It is matter of familiar knowledge what these forces are, but it will be profitable to our thought to pass them once more in review. They are freedom of thought and the diffusion of enlightenment among the people. Steam and electricity have co-operated with systematic popular education to accomplish this diffusion. The progress of popular education and the progress of democracy have been inseparable. The publication of their great encyclopaedia by Diderot and his associates in France in the last century, was the sure sign of the change that was setting in. Learning was turning its face away from the studious few towards the curious many. The intellectual movement of the modern time was emerging from the narrow courses of scholastic thought, and beginning to spread itself abroad over the extended, if shallow, levels of the common mind. The serious forces of democracy will be found, upon analysis, to reside, not in the disturbing doctrines o
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 10: last days with the tribune (search)
nd still justly holds its place as the best volume of the kind published in the English language. It is to be observed, however, that the compiler's modesty was too great to permit him to include even one of his own poems within its ample limits. The success which crowned this work from the start soon led to another and far more ambitious undertaking. Dana's indefatigable industry and wide range of reading had stored his mind with an extraordinary variety and amount of learning. Like Diderot, who compiled the first encyclopaedia worthy of the name, he was undoubtedly at that time among the very few men of his country qualified for a work of that character, and this his publishers were not slow to recognize. The time seemed to be favorable, and accordingly his proposal that he and his old associate, George Ripley, should undertake the preparation of The American Cyclopaedia was accepted. It was a work of considerable magnitude, requiring not only much capital, but the co-opera
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
D. Dalton, Georgia, 257. Dana family, 1, 2; Paul, 357, 496; the poet, 25, 26; Zoe, 362. Danubian provinces, 85. Danville Railroad, 330. Davis, Jefferson, 98, 153, 271, 352, 356, 359-361, 364, 365,389,401, 472, 473. Davis, General Jefferson--C., 262-264. Dayton, William L., 98. Deer Creek Bayou, 207. De Golyer scheme, 450. Denison, Ann, 1, 2, 3. Denison, David, 3. Denison, Governor, 354. DeShroon's Landing, 208, 216, 217. De Tocqueville, 72. Dial, the, 42, 50. Diderot, 158. Dinwiddie Court-House, 356. Dodge, General G. M., 406. Dosoris, 507, 508. Doughface, 128, 130. Douglas, Stephen A., 98, 125, 126, 136, 151, 153, 199, 228. Douglass, Frederick, 102. Downing, 52. Dred Scott decision, 150. Drouillard, J. P., 263, 264. Duane, Major, 330. Dunbar, Mr., 50. Dwight, John S., 45, 51. Dyer, General, 351, 352. E. Early, General, 336, 339, 341, 346, 365. Eckert, Major Thomas T., 368, 501. Edie, John R., 352. Education of Dana, 12
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fourth: orations and political speeches. (search)
ghts did not declare, nor did the genius of Somers or Maynard conceive the political axiom, that all men are born equal. It may find acceptance in our day from individuals in England; but it is disowned by English institutions. It is to France that we must pass for the earliest development of this idea, for its amplest illustration, and for its most complete, accurate, and logical expression. In the middle of the last century appeared the renowned Encyclopedie, edited by D'Alembert and Diderot. This remarkable production, where science, religion, and government were all discussed with a revolutionary freedom, contains an article on Equality, which was published in 1755. Here we find the boldest expression that had then been given to this sentiment. Natural Equality, says the Encyclopedia, is that which exists between all men by the constitution of their nature only. This Equality is the principle and the foundation of liberty. Natural or moral equality is then founded upon t
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xii. (search)
ghts did not declare, nor did the genius of Somers or Maynard conceive the political axiom, that all men are born equal. It may find acceptance in our day from individuals in England; but it is disowned by English institutions. It is to France that we must pass for the earliest development of this idea, for its amplest illustration, and for its most complete, accurate, and logical expression. In the middle of the last century appeared the renowned Encyclopedie, edited by D'Alembert and Diderot. This remarkable production, where science, religion, and government were all discussed with a revolutionary freedom, contains an article on Equality, which was published in 1755. Here we find the boldest expression that had then been given to this sentiment. Natural Equality, says the Encyclopedia, is that which exists between all men by the constitution of their nature only. This Equality is the principle and the foundation of liberty. Natural or moral equality is then founded upon t
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
narian. Dec. 22. Beautiful day begun with much surprise at my own advanced years, as there is very little inward change and it is generally thought I carry them well externally. In the summer of 1908, he was attracted by an article in the Dial called the Grandisonian Manner, and wrote this letter to the author:— Dear sir or madam:— You will pardon me for thus addressing you, when I tell you that I have just finished the whole series of Richardson's writings, including Diderot's commentary and all, having come upon them in one of the very best of the Massachusetts Public libraries in this attractive rural town [Ipswich]. All my life I have wished for time to renew Sir Charles, as I heard him read aloud by my mother in Cambridge in early boyhood; and as I am now fast approaching my 85th birthday it is a delight to find the book quite reviving the old affection and the old associations of humor. The sense of personal nobleness about Sir Charles is renewed and also
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
e afterwards repeated at the Sorbonne. Sumner attended the lectures of Taillandier and other professors in the Salles des Lettres, occupying a privileged seat at the front. For descriptions of Sumner's life at Montpellier see his letters, Jan. 24 and 25, 1859, printed in Longfellow's Life, vol. III. pp. 55-59. M. Abauzit, who met Sumner at Montpellier, writes: Mr. Sumner read all the memoirs and correspondence relating to the eighteenth century, particularly the letters of D'Alembert, Diderot, La Harpe, and Grimm. He exhausted, I believe, the public library of the town. He was also delighted with the Tableau de la Litterature du XVIII ieme Siele du Villemain, which I had recommended to him. He was present also at the lectures of Maudot on Spanish literature, and of Germain on Roman history. He was an habitual visitor at the Municipal Library, where almost daily he read for some hours French authors, being at this time specially interested in Rousseau. His curiosity, always k
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Longstreet's command. (search)
ame of any individual woman, they will agree with us. Charles Lemsia.--Most of their faults women own to us whilst we are indebted to them for most of our better qualities. Daniel Sterne.--Most of women are endowed with such naturally endearing charma that even their very presence is generally beneficial. Madame De Stael.--Love in a woman's life is a history; in a man's an episode. Catalina.--Only he who has nothing, to hold from a woman, is truly sincere in praise. Diderot.--There exists among secret tie, like that among priests, same faith. They hate each other, yets.--On test each other's interests. will sell Sethi.--No woman, even the most , believes herself decidedly hon. The self deception is natural, for the some most charming women without article of beauty. Octave Fenillet.--Providence has so ordered it that only two women have a true Interest in the happiness of a man — his owns mother and the mother of his children. Besides these two l