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The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Burning of the Kentucky Lunatic Asylum. (search)
Southern Literary Messenger. The Southern Literary Messenger for December contains many useful, interesting and suggestive articles in prose and verse. It has given us pleasure to bear tribute to the able and spirited manner in which Dr. Bagby conducts this periodical. Aside from the editors contributions, there are thirteen articles, historical, scientific, humorous and pathetic. "Lady Mary Wortley Montague," "Popular Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter," "Thackeray versus Dickens," are the leading prose compositions; and "Tom Johnson's Country Courting; " "The Northman's Cause;" "Death and Burial of De Soto;" "De Profundis;" "Music on the Gulf Shore," and "Lines to Mary," make up a sufficiently varied poetical entertainment. The leading editorial article is a discussion of Disunion, in which the editor advocates immediate secession, and strongly commends the position of South Carolina. The following opening sentence is the key-note of the whole article: "The d
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
es of great public distress,) your Excellency thinks the "Old Fogy Club" can be of service to the State, your Excellency may have them mustered in immediately — not to march exceeding five miles per day. Respectfully, your abide serv's. M. W. R., Captain. Will making. The practice of cutting off with a shilling was introduced to refute the presumption of forgetfulness or unconsciousness — to show that the testator fully remembered and meant to disinherit the sufferer. Lady Mary Wortley Montague cut off her scapegrace of a son with a guinea. When Sheridan threatened to cut off his eldest born with a shilling, the quiet retort was, "Couldn't you give it to me at once, if you happen to have such a thing about you?" Hazlitt mentions an habitual liar, who, consistent to the last, employed the few remaining days he had to live, after being condemned by the doctors, in making a will, by which he bequeathed large estates in different parts of England, money in the funds, ri
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
The Oriental administration of women once found an ironical defender in a woman of Western Europe, Lady Mary Wortley Montague. The Turk is a gentleman who has devoted to this subject considerable time and talent. The compulsory seclusion of the sex and the plurality of wives are not, however, the peculiar sin of barbarous tribes. In the primitive life of savage man, there is little incentive or opportunity of jealous precaution. When the States of Greece attained their highest celebrity, the women were reduced to a retirement which was nearly a match for the harem. The influence of the sex has not often been prominent under the more complicated systems of republican policy. In Rome, however, that admirable sex possessed at one time a degree of influence and power which they have not attained even in our own country, where they are still compelled to depend upon their individual prowess and their skill in the use of fire-arms for the redress of their wrongs. When the co