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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Transylvania. (search)
f the proprietors, between whom and the settlers a compact was made, the most important features of which were an agreement—1. That the election of delegates should be annual; 2. Perfect freedom of opinion in matters of religion; 3. That judges should be appointed by the proprietors, but answerable for bad conduct to the people; and, 4. That the Convention or Assembly have the sole power of raising and appropriating all moneys, and of electing their treasurers. Courts and a militia were organized, and laws were enacted. The proprietors held a meeting in September at Oxford, Greenville co., N. C., and elected James Hogg a delegate for Transylvania in the Continental Congress, but the claim of Virginia to the territory of the new commonwealth was a bar to his admission. The legislature of Virginia afterwards annulled the purchase of Henderson, and the inchoate State disappeared. Virginia gave Henderson a tract of land on the Ohio 12 miles square, below the mouth of Green Rive
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
enderson, though his purchase was not recognized by Virginia, the people in convention at Boonesboro adopt a proprietary government for their new State of Transylvania and pass laws......May 23, 1775 Simon Kenton and Thomas Williams land at the mouth of Limestone Creek, now Maysville, and plant a corn crop......May, 1775 Daniel Boone and others bring their wives and children into Kentucky......September, 1775 Representatives of Transylvania at Oxford, Greenville co., N. C., elect James Hogg delegate to the Continental Congress, but Virginia prevents seating him......September, 1775 Kentucky county formed by Virginia out of Fincastle county......Dec. 6, 1776 First siege of Harrodsburg by forty-seven Indians under Blackfish......March 7, 1777 Indian attack on Boonesboro, April 15, fails; a second unsuccessful attempt by 200......July 4, 1777 Daniel Boone, captured by the Indians, with twenty-seven others, while making salt at the Blue Licks, Feb. 7, 1778, is carried
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country, Snow (search)
markable narrative of a snow-storm which I have ever seen was that written by James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, in record of one which took place January 24, 1790. James Hogg at this time belonged to a sort of literary society of young shepherds, and had set out, the day previous, to walk twenty miles over the hills to the placen them and its walls, a distance of only fourteen yards. He floundered through, Hogg soon following, and, finding all the family up, they agreed that they must reachrds recovered and held out with the rest. Two of them lost their head-gear, and Hogg himself fell over a high precipice; but they reached the flock at half-past 10. y had only one momentary glimpse of the hills through all that terrible day. Yet Hogg persisted in going by himself afterwards to rescue some flocks of his own, barelafterwards to refer the whole terrific storm to some secret incantations of poor Hogg's literary society aforesaid; When dark December shrouds the transient da
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
ure you ample justice was done to their merits here.—Memoirs of Mrs. Anne Grant, of Laggan. . . . . . Not a great deal of society came to her house, and what there was did not much interest me. I met there Owen of Lanark, who talked me out of all patience with his localities and universalities; Wilson, of The Isle of Palms, a pretending young man, but with a great deal of talent John Wilson, Christopher North, whose chief acknowledged production at this time was the Isle of Palms, a poem.; Hogg, the poet, vulgar as his name, and a perpetual contradiction, in his conversation, to the exquisite delicacy of his Kilmeny. . . . . Mrs. Fletcher is the most powerful lady in conversation in Edinburgh, and has a Whig coterie of her own, as Mrs. Grant has a Tory one. She is the lady in Edinburgh by way of eminence, and her conversation is more sought than that of anybody there. An interesting autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, with selections from her letters, etc., has been published by
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
y conducted, if these are specimens. We dined with Mrs. Reid; A lady of fortune and radical opinions, who gave her time and money to the service of the poor, in a truly Christian spirit. She kept open a library and reading-room for them, at her own expense. . . . . . the dinner was more than commonly agreeable. Dr. Roget was there, the Secretary of the Royal Society and author of one of the Bridgewater Treatises, a first-rate man; Dr. Bostock, a leading member of the Royal Society; Mr. Hogg, who is about publishing his Travels in the East, and who told us many pleasant stories of Lady Hester Stanhope, etc. In the evening several of the Aikin family came in, and I confess I looked with some interest on the Charles of Mrs. Barbauld's Evenings at Home, though he came with a wig and two daughters, one of whom has made him already a grandfather. July 21.—At half past 4 I returned to the House of Commons, Having been there two hours before, merely to see the hall. to hear the
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
ountess, 467. Heyne, Professor, 95, 105, 106. Higginson, Barbara. See Perkins, Mrs. S. G. Higginson, Stephen, 12, 13. Hill, Lord, Arthur, 442. Hillard, G. S., 326 note, 391 note. Hillhouse, Mr., 14. Hobhouse, (Sir) John Cam, 165. Hogg, James, 278. Hogg, Mr., 416. Holland, Dr (Sir Henry), 446. Holland House, 295, 408, 418. Holland, Lady, 264 and note, 265, 408, 409. Holland, Third Lord, 263, 264, 265, 267, 294, 408, 418, 422; Spanish library, 457. Hopkinson, Francis, 1Hogg, Mr., 416. Holland, Dr (Sir Henry), 446. Holland House, 295, 408, 418. Holland, Lady, 264 and note, 265, 408, 409. Holland, Third Lord, 263, 264, 265, 267, 294, 408, 418, 422; Spanish library, 457. Hopkinson, Francis, 15. Hopkinson, Judge, 15. Hopkinson, Mrs., 16. House of Commons, G. T. called before Committee of, 415; debate in, 416. Houston, General S., 372, 373, 374. Huber, Francois, 156, 157. Hudson River, visits, 386. Humboldt, Baron Alexander von, 128-130, 134 and note, 135, 138, 145, 146, 254, 255, 257, 258 note, 263, 498-501. Humboldt, Madame Wilhelm von, 177, 178. Hume, Colonel, 447. Hunt, Jonathan, 7, 381. Hunt, Leigh, 292, 294. I Infantado Duke del, 206. Irving, Washing
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
361, 362 note, 402 note, 420, 445 note; letter to, 234; edits fourth edition of History of Spanish Literature, 262 note. Hillhouse, Mr., I. 14. Hill, Lord, Arthur, I. 442. Hobhouse, (Sir) John Cam, I. 165. Hofwyl School, II. 35. Hogg, James, I. 278. Hogg, Mr., I. 416. Holland House, I. 295, 408, 418, II. 176, 181, 361, 367, 370, 873, 383, 384. Holland, Lord (Third), I. 263, 264, 265, 267, 294, 408, 418, 422, II. 146, 147, 149, 150, 176, 182; Spanish library, I. 457; Lady, 26Hogg, Mr., I. 416. Holland House, I. 295, 408, 418, II. 176, 181, 361, 367, 370, 873, 383, 384. Holland, Lord (Third), I. 263, 264, 265, 267, 294, 408, 418, 422, II. 146, 147, 149, 150, 176, 182; Spanish library, I. 457; Lady, 264 and note, 265, 408, 409, II. 147, 149, 177. Holland, Lord (Fourth), II. 359, 366, 373, 884; Lady, 367, 369, 373, 379, 383. Holland, Dr. (Sir Henry), I. 446, II. 146, 151, 152, 259, 326, 71, 384, 489, 463. Holland, Queen of, II. 371, 381. Hollond, Mr., II. 479. Holmes, Dr. O. W., II. 310. Hopkinson, Francis, I. 15. Hopkinson, Judge, I. 15. Hopkinson, Mrs., I. 16. Horner, Francis, II. 150, 468. Horner, Leonard, II. 332, 358, 409. Horner, Mrs. L., II. 332, 358, 359, 3
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XX (search)
XX Make Thy Option which of two who does not look back with some slight envy to the period when Professor Popkin could dwell with longing on that coming day when he could retire from his Harvard Professorship of Greek and read the authors? He actually resigned in 1833, and had for nearly twenty years the felicity for which he longed. What he meant by reading the authors was well enough exhibited in that contemporary English clergyman, described in Hogg's Life of Shelley, who devoted all his waking hours for thirty years to a regular course of Greek writers. He arranged them in a three years course, and when they were ended he began again. The only exception was in case of Homer, whose works he read every year for a month at the seashore—the proper place to read Homer, he said; and, as he also pointed out, there were twenty-four week-days in a month, and by taking a book of the Iliad before dinner, and a book of the Odyssey after dinner, he just finished his pleasant task.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, Index (search)
eley, Horace, 27. H. Hafiz, M. S., 229, 232. Haggard, Rider, 14, 93, 197, 198, 202, 205. Hale, E. E., 101. Hamerton, P. G., 168. Hardenberg, Friedrich von, 99. Hardy, A. S., 15, 202. Haring, John, 6. Harte, Bret, 11, 57, 58. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 9, 41, 66, 84, 124, 126, 155, 218, 219. Hayley, William, 217, 218. Hayward Memoirs, the, 82, 226. Hazlitt, William, 216. Heine, Heinrich, 90, 109, 142, 159, 189, 229. Hemans, F. D., 179. High-water marks, concerning, 97. Hogg, James, 169. Holmes, O. W., 54, 62, 67, 97, 99, 178, 205. Holt, Henry, 172. Homer, 48, 98, 114, 169, 171, 190, 217. Horace, 16, 48, 99, 114. Houghton, Lord, 19, 56, 62, 94. Howells, W. D., 13, 15, 66, 114, 118, 171, 184, 194, 201, 202, 210, 229. Howe, E. W. 11. Howe, Julia Ward, 67, 100. Hugo, Victor, 49, 56, 68, 110. Humboldt, A. von, 73, 176. Humor, American, perils of, 128. Hutchinson, Ellen M., 101, 102. Huxley, T. H., 137, 158. I. Ideals, personal, 106. Iffland