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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
the parlor door with the same simplicity with which he received us, without any German congratulations. In the afternoon, we called on Prof. Thiersch, who is here on a visit. He is thirty-two, and is one of the rare instances of a peasant raising himself to the learned rank in society. He was sent to the Schule Pforte by a village which had this right, and afterwards studied at Gottingen,—was an instructor in the gymnasium there, and, while thus employed, attracted the attention of John Muller, the historian, who said of Thiersch and Dissen, who were then not twenty-five years old, that if the art of studying the Greek classics was lost, these two young men had knowledge enough to restore it. . . . . In the evening he took us to the house of a friend, Mr. Von Couta, a councillor of state; where we met a daughter of Herder, a cousin of Klopstock; Prof. Hand, the editor of Lucretius, a young man of thirty-five; and Myer, the archaeologist, now Goethe's intimate friend, an old
The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], Deranged. (search)
Deranged. --On Sunday night last a man named John Muller was arrested by the watchmen and caged for wandering about the streets and being deranged. Muller has been in prison as a lunatic, but was subsequently discharged. The Mayor committed him for a further hearing. Deranged. --On Sunday night last a man named John Muller was arrested by the watchmen and caged for wandering about the streets and being deranged. Muller has been in prison as a lunatic, but was subsequently discharged. The Mayor committed him for a further hearing.
The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention. (search)
Lost could found and restored --Officer Quarles found on the Square on the 22d inst., a little girl four years old, that had already from its nurse, and which, after considerable search, (in which he was aided by the suggestions of his little charge,) he was enabled to restore to its father, John Muller, residing on 12th, between Main and Cary streets.
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], Resisting the draft in Indiana. (search)
Continued. --The charge against the lad Tom Turpin, of robbing John Muller of $1700, has not, as yet, been disposed of by the Mayor. Tom, though a mere youth, has seen some service in the war, as drummer boy, and is now anxious to return to the scene of conflict, to do battle in his country's cause. His mother, a wide wed lady is desirous to release her son from the city jail and its contaminating influences, and as Muller cannot be found to prove Tom's guilt, it were well that Tom be sainst the lad Tom Turpin, of robbing John Muller of $1700, has not, as yet, been disposed of by the Mayor. Tom, though a mere youth, has seen some service in the war, as drummer boy, and is now anxious to return to the scene of conflict, to do battle in his country's cause. His mother, a wide wed lady is desirous to release her son from the city jail and its contaminating influences, and as Muller cannot be found to prove Tom's guilt, it were well that Tom be sent to the field without delay.