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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 8 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.) 8 0 Browse Search
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Introduction. (search)
Ideas, belongs, in part, to that period. It is an attempt to represent in a candid, unprejudiced manner the rise and progress of the great religions of the world, and their ethical relations to each other. She availed herself of, and carefully studied, the authorities at that time accessible, and the result is creditable to her scholarship, industry, and conscientiousness. If, in her desire to do justice to the religions of Buddha and Mohammed, in which she has been followed by Maurice, Max Muller, and Dean Stanley, she seems at times to dwell upon the best and overlook the darker features of those systems, her concluding reflections should vindicate her from the charge of undervaluing the Christian faith, or of lack of reverent appreciation of its founder. In the closing chapter of her work, in which the large charity and broad sympathies of her nature are manifest, she thus turns with words of love, warm from the heart, to Him whose Sermon on the Mount includes most that is good
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Lucy Osgood. (search)
Lucy Osgood. Wayland, 1869. I have read a good many of Taine's papers on Art, and always with great zest. His descriptions of Venice in Les Deux Mondes is wonderfully glowing and poetic. It was almost like seeing that city of enchantment. Max Muller's Clips I have never seen. The greatest extravagance I have committed for years was buying his Science of language, price seven dollars, as a birthday present for my philological mate. His habit of digging for the origin of words has proved contagious, and he often expresses surprise at the help my quick guesses afford him in his patient researches. I resolutely read Max Muller's Science of language, and picked up a good many new ideas and valuable suggestions; but to read it with full understanding required a great deal more learning than I possess. A friend is accustomed to say that my bark is worse than my bite ; and it is something so with regard to my theological intolerance. For instance, I have given yearly to the Ameri
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
e plot against denounced by Mr. Child, VIII. Michael Angelo and Raphael, 76. Mill's (John Stuart) Autobiography, 222. Milmore's (Martin) bust of Charles Sumner. 187. Minute Man at Concord, the, 257. Missouri Compromise, efforts to repeal the, 70. Mobbing of the anti-slavery meetings, 148-150. Modocs, persecution of the, 220; their assault on the Peace Commissioners, 221. Montgomery, Col., James, 161,162. Morse, Professor, on Japan, 246. Mother's Book, The, VII. Muller's (Max) Science of language, 201. N. Nebraska Bill, passage of the, 72. Negro Boat Song, by Whittier, 159. New chapter of Christian evidences, in the Atlantic monthly, 202. New Church doctrines, Mrs. Child's interest in, 43. New England Anti-Slavery Society, formation of the, VIII. Newman's (Francis W.) works on The soul, and Phases of faith, 139. New York draft riots of 1863, 178. North American Review praises Mrs Child, VII. Novels and Sermons, comparative va
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, V. The swing of the social pendulum. (search)
be doubted if this is the highest sphere; if it can be set against the dignity of the best Spanish or Italian manners, the keenness of French wit, and the depth and solidity of German knowledge. These also are fully appreciated among us, but their traces do not lie so much on the surface. All these things, so far as we can, we borrow ; why not? If older nations borrow from one another, why not younger from older? It is no discredit to England that her one high philological authority, Max Muller, is a German, and that her one humorous periodical — in America every newspaper is humorous-still bears trace of its French origin in the title, Punch, or the London Charivari. The English journals are constantly pointing out that their own people are becoming Americanized; why, then, should not an American here or there be Anglicized? It is pretty certain all the while that we are exerting far more influence than we receive. Let us not disturb ourselves. Out of the fifty millions of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
cious, origin of the word, 10. Mericourt, Theroigne de, 236. Mice and martyrdom, 141. Michigan University, 287. Miller, Captain, Betsey, 211. Millet, J. F., 194. Milton, John, 19, 285. Minerva, 45. Miranda, 102, 103. Missionaries, 236. Moliere, J. B., 87. Moore, Thomas, quoted, 19, 278. Mopsa, 102. Moral equivalence of sexes, 91. more thorough work visible, 286. Morse, S. F. B., 99. mother, on one's Relationship to one's, 43. Mott, Lucretia, 47, 179. Muller, Max, 26. Murfree, M. N., 225, 259, 263. musical woman, The Missing, 249. N. Napoleon. See Bonaparte. Napoleon, Louis, 101. Napoleons, dynasty of the, 98. Nausikaa, 8, 11. Nervousness of men, the, 238. New theory of language, the, 181. Newcome, Ethel, 55. Newell, W. W., 13. Newport, R. I., life at, 71, 98. Nicknames in college, 275. Nightingale, Florence, 19. Nithisdale, Countess of, 56. Normandy, a scene in, 201. Northcote, Sir, Stafford, 136. Norton, A
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
as coming down stairs, Sir Henry Maine, the author was coming from the smoking room, and the three men in the smoking room were Galton, Palgrave and the editor of the Quarterly Review. No building in the world has so many eminent men within its walls from 4 to 6 daily. Then he records meeting at the Cosmopolitan Club, Anthony Trollope, Lord Houghton, whom he knew before, brisk, small, and chatty; and of having a talk with Galton, author of Hereditary Genius. Heard a lecture from Max Muller at the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey. Afterwards I went up to speak to him and found him as pleasant as possible. He remembered at once my Sympathy of Religions which I had sent him and begged me to come to Oxford and see him. He looks quite English in style, but has a sweet sunny manner and slight German accent, about as much of both as Agassiz. Colonel Higginson had been appointed a delegate to a Prison Reform Convention at Stockholm, and of a preparatory English meeting in Ma
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
out anti-slavery excitement, 144, 145; and fugitive slaves, 152. Medici, Marchesa Peruzzi de, daughter of Story, visit to, 355-57. Michigan University, influence of Higginson's writings on, 157. Miller, Joaquin, 336. Monarch of Dreams, 417, 423; account of, 311. 312. Montgomery, Capt., James, leader of rescue party, 197, 198, 200; plan to recall, 203. Moore, Thomas, visits to birthplace of, 322. Mott, Lucretia, described, 135, 136. Mount Auburn, early, 18, 21, 22. Muller, Max, account of, 328. Munthe, Dr., 354. My Outdoor Study, 157, 408. Negroes, Higginson's early interest in, 17, 38; Underground Railroad, 151-54; St. Louis slave market described, 182-89; regiment of freed, 216-51; discipline in, 217, 218, 226, 227; sayings of, 219, 220, 227, 230, 237, 245, 246; barbecue, 235: religious differences described, 244; description of, 246-48; Question of, in Newport, 253, 254; Higginson's address to, at Alabama, 366; at Boston, 366, 367. Newburyport, Mas
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.), Book III (continued) (search)
(1875), etc., might perhaps never have been written if he had not been driven to it by . . . the necessity of counteracting as far as possible the influence of Max Muller's views. Against the idealism, transcendentalism, and logical fallacies of Muller, Whitney takes a distinctly common-sense and almost pragmatic view. LanguageMuller, Whitney takes a distinctly common-sense and almost pragmatic view. Language is for him a human institution, an instrument made by man to meet human needs, and at no time beyond human control. It has to be acquired afresh by every speaker, for it is not a self-subsisting entity that can be transmitted through the body or the mind of race or individual. Whitney thus decisively ranges himself against all though he declined to commit himself, as feeling that the evidence warranted no positive assertion, he yet felt equally certain that the evidence did not warrant Muller's assertion of a multiple origin—languages springing up here, there, and everywhere upon the surface of the earth. The trend of Whitney's opinion, though he asse
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.), Index (search)
Grosse tour, 579 Moth and the flame, the, 274, 280 Motley, 126, 178, 188, 190, 302, 306, 472 Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, 158 Mount Holyoke Seminary, 411 Mower in Ohio, the, 59 Mozart, 449, 450 M. Quad. See Lewis, Charles Bertrand Mr. Dooley. See Dunne, F. P. Mr. Isaacs, 87 Mrs. Bumpstead Leigh, 294 Mrs. Leffingwell's boots, 283 Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage patch, 288 Mr. Waddy's Return, 68 n. Muhlenberg, H. M., 577 Muir, John, 112, 116, 167 Muller, Max, 469 Muller, Wilhelm, 582 Mulligan guard ball, the, 279 Munch, Friedrich, 587 Muinchausen, Baron, 580 Mundartlich Heiteres, 583 Munger, T. T., 208 Munro, 463 Munsey's, 316, 317 Munsterberg, Hugo, 586 Munter, Carl, 583 Murdock, Frank, 275 Murphy, H. C., 185 Murray, Lindley, 401, 446 Murray, W. H. H., 163 Muscipula: the Mouse-trap, 444-45 Music (Sill, E. R.), 56 Music master, the, 281, 287 My Arctic journal, 170 My faith looks up to Thee, 499 My Fa
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Literature as an art. (search)
St. Agnes. But thus to be crowned monarch of the sunset, to trust one's self with full daring in these realms of glory, demands such a balance of endowments as no one in English literature save Shakespeare has attained. In choosing words, it is to be remembered that there is not a really poor one in any language; each had originally some vivid meaning, but most of them have been worn smooth by passing from hand to hand, and hence the infinite care required in their use. Language, says Max Muller, is a dictionary of faded metaphors ; and every writer who creates a new image, or even reproduces an old one by passing it through a fresh mind, enlarges this vast treasure-house. And this applies not only to words of beauty, but to words of wit. All wit, said Mr. Pitt, is true reasoning ; and Rogers, who preserved this saying, added, that he himself had lived long before making the discovery that wit was truth. A final condition of literary art is thoroughness, which must be shown bo
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