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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 22 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.) 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.) 6 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 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
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 2 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 0 Browse Search
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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Father Ludovico's fancy. (search)
ounded by the light of human civilization, and yet continually and cautiously blindfolded, is to blunder in the beginning, middle and end of the whole matter. We hope the Presbyterian Church South, and all other Southern churches, will duly consider the example offered by the Babylonian dame. Fas est ab hoste doceri--it is just the thing to be taught by an opponent. We can imagine the surprise, and even the consternation, which would ensue, if the population of the quarter-houses should be summoned by the overseer — this one to receive a French grammar, and that, Lindley Murray, and the other, Malte-Brun. We would not plunge into the middle of things in such a reckless way, but would set out with due simplicity, with primers and pictures, and good serviceable horn-books. But, interpose the Patriarchs, teach them their letters, and they will all run away! Well, if fit to run away, able to run away, and desirous of running away, why should they not run away? February 2, 1859
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Murray, Lindley 1745- (search)
Murray, Lindley 1745- Grammarian; born in Swatara, Pa., April 22, 1745; was a member of the Society of Friends. His father was a successful merchant in New York, to which place he removed in 1753. Lindley Murray. Lindley became a lawyer. During the Revolution he acquired such a handsome property by mercantile pursuits that he was able to retire from business, and in 1784 went to England for his health. where he purchased a small estate near York. In 1787 he published a tract entitleLindley Murray. Lindley became a lawyer. During the Revolution he acquired such a handsome property by mercantile pursuits that he was able to retire from business, and in 1784 went to England for his health. where he purchased a small estate near York. In 1787 he published a tract entitled The power of religion on the mind, which passed through many editions. He is chiefly known as author of an English grammar (1795), an English reader, and an English spelling-book. He died near York, England, Feb. 16, 1826.
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 18: (search)
tion of a dentist; the old flag flying over his files, false teeth, and spittoons. He probably wrote the despatch, a copy of which had been handed me, in the intervals between the entrance, and exit of his customers. It was not wonderful, therefore, that this semi-diplomat, charged with the affairs of the Great Republic, and with the decayed teeth of the young ladies of Maranham, at one and the same time, should be a little confused, as to points of international law, and the rules of Lindley Murray. That he should misrepresent me was both natural, and Federal. At the appointed hour, the next day, I called to see his Excellency, the President, and being ushered, by an orderly in waiting, into a suite of spacious, and elegantly furnished apartments, I found Captain Pinto, and his Excellency, both prepared to receive me. We proceeded, at once, to business. I exhibited to his Excellency the same little piece of brownish paper, with Mr. Jefferson Davis's signature at the bottom of
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.), Chapter 6: fiction I — Brown, Cooper. (search)
its ashes in a snuff-box. In November, 1804, he married Miss Elizabeth Linn of New York, and was thereafter an exemplary husband, father, and drudge, who produced pamphlets, large parts of his magazine, and practically the whole of the useful American Register (1807-11). The fame of his novels, of which he claimed to think little, became a legend, but new editions were not called for. In 1809 he was elected to honorary membership in the New York Historical Society, with such notables as Lindley Murray, Noah Webster, Benjamin Trumbull, Timothy Dwight, Josiah Quincy, and George Clinton. He died of consumption 19 February, 1810. In England he was well known for at least a generation. Blackwood's praised him with the fiery pen of John Neal; Scott borrowed from him the names of two characters in Guy Mannering; Godwin himself owed to Wieland a hint for Mandeville. In his native country Brown has stood, with occasional flickerings of interest, firmly fixed as a literary ancestor. There
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.), Chapter 7: fiction II--contemporaries of Cooper. (search)
o notes of his journeying, within a year he had completed his first book, Typee, the record of his captivity. This was followed the next year by Omoo, The word is Polynesian for rover. which completes his island adventures. In 1849 came Redburn, based on his earlier voyage to Liverpool, and in 1850 White-Jacket, an account of life on a man-of-war. The first two had a great vogue and aroused much wonder as to the proportion of fiction and fact which might have gone to their making. Murray published Typee in England in the belief that it was pure fact. There were others to rank it with Richard Henry Dana's Two years before the mast (1841) as a transcript of real events. But though little is known of Melville's actual doings in the South Seas, it is at least clear that Typee and Omoo are no more as truthful as Two years before the mast than they are as crisp and nautical as that incomparable classic of the sea. Melville must be ranked less with Dana than with George Borrow.
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.), Index. (search)
, the, 291 Monument of Phaon, the, 181 Monumental memorial of a late voyage, etc., A, 9 Morals of Chess, the, 101 More, Henry, 70 n. Morris, Colonel G. P., 241, 279 Morris, William, 261 Morse, Jedidiah, 187 Morse, S. F. B., 301 Morton, Nathaniel, 20, 22, 23, 27 Morton, Sarah Wentworth, 178, 285 Mose in California, 229 Mose in China, 229 Mourt's Relation, 19 Mowatt, Anna Ogden, 223, 229, 230 Murray, John, 249, 252, 255, 321 Murray, Mrs., Judith, 233 Murray, Lindley, 292 Muscle Seatoniance, 263 n. Musings (Dana), 240 Mystery of flowers, the, 267 n. N Nadowessiers Todtenlied, 212 Napoleon, 170, 185, 211 Narrative of surprising Conversions, 61 Narrative of the troubles with the Indians of New England, 25 Nathan Hale, 167 Nation, the, 216 n., 262 n., 289 n. Nativity, 265 Nature, 328, 334, 346, 352, 358 Neal, John, 208, 292, 307, 308, 309-310 Ned Myers, 302 Neidig, W. J., 216 n. Neighbour, 233 Neill, Rev. Ed
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.), Chapter 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
hough with favourable conditions he might exert himself to good effect. Thus it was, in 1821, that he decided to take up his pen as an occupation. Very deliberately he proceeded to examine the tools of expression that were ready to his hand. He found them very defective. He had no well-based accurate knowledge of English, let alone modern languages. Accordingly, on 30 October, 1821, he planned a preliminary course to lay accurate foundations for a literary career. Blair's Rhetoric, Lindley Murray, the introductory chapter of Johnson's Dictionary were studied as though the student were a small schoolboy instead of a Harvard graduate of seven years standing. At the same time he ploughed through a long course of English literature. Ascham, Bacon, Browne, Raleigh, and Milton, besides the sermons of eminent divines, were read to him in chronological series, while he used his own sight for an hour of Latin daily. At the end of the year he felt he had broken ground only. A temporary
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.), Index (search)
Antipathy, a, 228, 233 Morton's hope, 134, 145 Moses Adams. See Bagby, George W. Mosses from an old Manse, 20 Mother Goose, 397, 408 Motley, John Lathrop, 129, 130, 131– 47, 228, 230, 231 Motley, Mary Benjamin, 134, 146 Motley Book, the, 152 Moultrie, General, William, 104, 105 Mountain of the lovers and other poems, 311 Mourner à la Mode, The, 243 Muhlenberg family, the, 197 Munroe & Co., 9 Murfree, Mary N., 360, 365, 379, 383, 388, 389, 390, 391 Murray, Lindley, 124 My double and how he Undid Me, 374 My friend Bingham, 375 My Maryland, 295, 296, 303, 304, 308, 309 My old Kentucky home, 353 My springs, 345 My study Windows, 247 My wife and child, 290, 299 Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the, 58 Nation, the, 187 National era, the, 47 National Gazette, 181 National Intelligencer, the (1800), 83 National Intelligencer, the (1841), 183 National journal, the, 119 National magazine, the, 161 National ode, 279 N
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 3: birth and early Education.—1811-26. (search)
mae, Phaedri Fabulae, Cornelius Nepos, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sallust's Catiline and Jugurthine War, Caesar, Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, the Agricola and Germania of Tacitus, and the Odes and Epodes of Horace. In Greek, it included Valpy's Greek Grammar, the Delectus Sententiarum Graecarum, Jacob's Greek Reader, the Four Gospels, and two books of Homer's Iliad. Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods introduced the pupil to mythology. In arithmetic, Lacroix was used; and in reading, Lindley Murray's English Reader. On the fly-leaf of many of his text-books which he used in the Latin School and in College he wrote the motto, Me jure tenet. In 1824, Charles won a third prize for a translation from Ovid, and a second prize for a translation from Sallust; and, in 1826, second prizes for a Latin hexameter poem and an English theme. He received, for the two prizes last named, an English edition of Gibbon's History in twelve volumes. A detur, awarded to him, Feb. 1, 1823, probab
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)
evotees. In 1806 appeared his Compendious Dictionary of the English language, which in its school or in its unabridged form has ever since been a familiar and popular work of reference. The only rival to Webster in popularity and fame was Lindley Murray (1745-1826), a Quaker educator of New York and New Jersey. In 1795 he published his English grammar, in 1797 his English reader, and in 1804 his Spelling Book. These, somewhat more scholarly than those of Webster, and, as became an author Eociety, Transactions, I, 313 (1820). From the Latin Mitchill also translated into sober English verse the third and the fifth of Sannazaro's Piscatory eclogues (1815); and, from the Italian, Lancisi On the Fens and Marshes of Rome. Not only Lindley Murray's Grammar (1795), and Noah Webster's Compendious Dictionary (1806) and Philosophical and practical grammar of the English language (1807), but also Webster's great Dictionary of 1828, though it represents twenty years of additional work and e
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