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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 5 (search)
year, and a subsequent similar year, the most desultory and disconnected books, the larger the better: Newton's Principia and Whewell's Mechanical Euclid; Ritter's History of Ancient philosophy; Sismondi's Decline and fall of the Roman empire; Lamennais' Paroles d'un Croyant and Livre du Peuple; Homer and Hesiod; Linnaeus's Correspondence; Emerson over and over. Fortunately I kept up outdoor life also and learned the point where books and nature meet; learned that Chaucer belongs to spring, Ghe morning chill soon checked this foolish enterprise. On one of these nights I had an experience so nearly incredible that I scarcely dare to tell it, yet it was, I believe, essentially true. Sitting up till four one morning over a volume of Lamennais, I left the mark at an unfinished page, having to return the book to the college library. A year after I happened to take the book from the library again, got up at four o'clock to read, began where I left off, and afterwards,--not till afterw
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, V. The fugitive slave epoch (search)
lly enough, my neighbors and friends regarded my arrest and possible conviction as a glory or a disgrace according to their opinions on the slavery question. Fortunately it did not disturb my courageous mother, who wrote, I assure you it does not trouble me, though I dare say that some of my friends are commiserating me for having a son riotously and routously engaged, --these being the curious legal terms of the indictment. For myself, it was easy to take the view of my old favorite Lamennais, who regarded any life as rather incomplete which did not, as in his own case, include some experience of imprisonment in a good cause. (Il manque toujours quelque chose à la belle vie, qui ne finit pas sur le champ de bataille, sur laechafaud ou en prison.） In my immediate household the matter was taken coolly enough to suggest a calm inquiry, one day, by the lady of the house, whether all my letters to her from the prison would probably be read by the jailer; to which a young niece, the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
005, 106. Jones, Mr., 334. Jones, Mrs., 334. Jones, Sammy, 334. Jonson, Ben, 3. Jouffroy, T. S., 86. Kansas and John Brown, 196-234. Kant, Immanuel, 105. Keats, John, 19, 67. Keene, Charles, 290. Kelley, Abby, 327. Kemp, Mr., 148, 151. Keppel, Augustus, 166. King, Edward, 312. King family, the, 75. King, Mrs. Rufus, 17. Kingsley, Charles, 107, 276. Kirkland, J. T., 6. Kraitsir, Charles, 86, 93. Krummacher, F. A., III. Lamartine, A. M. L. de, 309, 310. Lamennais, H. F. R., Abbe de, 92, 93, 160. Lander, F. W., 264. Lander, Jean M., Mrs., 264, 265. Landor, W. S., 24, IOs, 112, 298. Lane, G. M., 53. Lane, J. H., 203, 204, 207, 208, 219, 230. Lang, Andrew, 273. Lanmer, Sidney, 230. Laplace, Marquis de, 50, 51. Lamed, Mr., 83. Laura, 76. Lazarus, Emma, 314. Le Barnes, J. W., 231, 232, 240. Lee, Mrs., Thomas, 87. Leighton, Caroline (Andrews), 129. Leland, C. G., 312, 314. Leroux, Pierre, 86. Lewes, Mrs. (George Eliot), 219. Lincol