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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 20 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 18 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 16 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 12 0 Browse Search
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.) 10 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 4 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 4 0 Browse Search
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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
, I am persuaded, to be charged to the philosophy of Kant, which for nearly twenty years ruled unquestioned, asystems have followed each other. From 1790 to 1800 Kant ruled unquestioned through all Germany. For three oknow that Fichte and Schelling divided the system of Kant, and that the one, by pushing his idealism too far, ntified God and Nature,—so that before the defeat of Kant's system as a whole, and then in both parts separatein till some man of high talents comes forward, like Kant, at once to destroy and to build up. But you willthese two consequences of the success and failure of Kant, Fichte, and Schelling, is, I think, in a great measose who examine such subjects are still followers of Kant. In Berlin, where Fichte still lives and has latelycollected from the disjecta membra of the systems of Kant, Fichte, and Schelling. These fragments he has command Priestley's materialism in the one country, and Kant's and Fichte's high, abstract idealism in the other;
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
ut much humor, but truly good-tempered and agreeable. We met there Sir John Ross, a very stout, easy, quiet gentleman of about fifty-five, with much of the air of a naval commander. While we were in the Observatory he compared with the time-keeper there the chronometer which had been used by Parry, and which had gone with him through all his terrible sufferings. Hamilton himself was very eager, simple, and direct, but a little nervous; and Whewell made himself merry at a discussion about Kant's philosophy, in which Hamilton showed his metaphysical acumen against a German at table, but showed, too, that he was familiar with the labyrinth of the German writers. . . . . Certainly, for one only twenty seven or eight years old, he is a very extraordinary person. August 15.—. . . . In the evening, a grand dinner was given by the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College to the Lord Lieutenant and about three hundred of the members of the Association. It was a beau finale to the