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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 18: (search)
t I was really touched with their kindness in coming to see me at all. But on Friday they will be here again for a few hours, and I shall hope to find them just a moment, to thank them. Afterwards I went to see the Lyells, for they go off to-morrow, and I do not want to take leave of them in the midst of a great party, where I am to meet them to-night. I need not tell you I was sorry to bid them good by. They have been as kind and true as they always are . . . . I then went first to General Fox's, Son of the third Lord Holland. where I found the same sort of hearty kindness I always have, and where I took one of the party I found lounging there and went to a grand matinee at Holland House. . . . . Nothing of the sort could well be finer. The wind had come round to the north, so that it was cool enough; and, passing through the house, . . . . the company came out into the park, where all the fashionable society of London seemed collected in picturesque groups under the magnif
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 23: (search)
rations, 1783-1830, I read the first article, which is largely about American affairs; and as I went on, I kept saying to myself, He ought to have been a judge, he ought to have been Lord Chancellor. Nothing in the way of investigation seems ever to escape him, and when all his facts are brought together, then comes in his judicial fairness, and makes everything clear, as measured by some recognized principle. See what he says about Lord Shelburne's career, and especially what he says about Fox's mistake in joining Lord North. I do not know anything like it in political history. Romilly and Horner had a good deal of the same character; but, though they came to as fair and honest results as anybody, they were both practising lawyers, and preserved something of the air of advocates, in the form and turn of their discussions. Perhaps Lewis might have had the same air if he had been in the courts, and had had clients to conciliate as well as to serve. As it is, we get, I think, in h
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
ard, II. 255 and note, 256 note, 259, 322, 385. Forster, Hofrath Friedrich, I. 493, 495. Forster, Professor, Karl, I. 475, 482, II. 480 and note. Forti, II. 48, 88. Fossombroni, Count, II. 49. Foster, Sir, Augustus, II. 40, 41. Fox, Colonel C. J. (General), I. 408, II. 370. Fox, Lady, Mary, I. 408, 409. Francisco, Don, Prince of Spain, I. 206. Frankfort-on-Main, visits, I.122. Franklin, Benjamin, I. 286. Franklin, Lady, I. 425. Franklin Public School, Boston, Elisha TFox, Lady, Mary, I. 408, 409. Francisco, Don, Prince of Spain, I. 206. Frankfort-on-Main, visits, I.122. Franklin, Benjamin, I. 286. Franklin, Lady, I. 425. Franklin Public School, Boston, Elisha Ticknor principal of, I. 2. Franklin, Sir, John, I. 419, 420, 421, 422, 425. Freeman, Rev. Dr. J., I. 17, 85, 53. Frere, John Hookham, I. 264, 267, II. 46 Friday Club, II. 445 and note. Frisbie, Professor, I. 855, 356. Fromel, Mr., Paul, II. 313. Froriep, L. F. von, I. 454, 455, 457. Fry, Elizabeth, II. 134. Fuller, Captain, I. 61. Fullerton, Lord, II. 16. Fullerton, Mrs., II. 168. Fulton's steam frigates, I. 27. Funchal, Count, I. 177, 179, 263. G Gabrielli