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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
k, no small luxury at Rome; for, in their respective and very different ways, the Countess, Mr. Hare, and the Abbe Stuart are three of the best talkers I know of. April 19. . . . . We went to the Vatican Library . . . . As a library in the common and practical sense of the word, it is hardly to be spoken of at all; and of the twelve or fourteen persons who were using it this morning, not one was occupied with anything but a manuscript. Its size is quite uncertain. From Mezzofanti, from Nibby, from Mai, and two or three other persons, who are, or have been employed as librarians, I have received entirely different accounts, making the manuscripts range from twenty-five thousand to thirty-five thousand, and the printed books from seventy thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand. Indeed, it is difficult to tell, for all its treasures are shut up in low cases, which are kept locked, and give you no means of estimating their contents, but to unlock them all and count them. We wer
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
, I. 197. Neander, J. W. A., I. 493. Necker de Saussure, Madame, 1.155 and note. Necker, M. and Madame, II. 37. Nelson, Lord, anecdote of, I. 63. Nemours, Due de, I. 493. New Bedford, lauds in, I. 298. Newcastle, England, I 272. Newcastle, Fifth Duke of, II. 432. New Haven, visits, I. 14. New Orleans, battle of, I. 29, 37. Newton, Stewart, I. 412, 421, 422. New York, visits, I. 15, 27, 404, II. 222, 226. Niagara, visits, I. 3-86, II. 221, 225, 277, 281. Nibby, Antonio, II 83. Nibby, Carlo, I. 171. Niccolini, Giov. B., II. 49, 53, 57, 88. Nichols, Rev. J., I. 336, II. 196. Niebuhr, B. G., 1.127, 177, 178, II. 326. Niemeyer, Chancellor, I. 110, 113. Niemeyer, Professor, I. Ill, 112. Noallles, Alexis de, I. 254. Nodier, Charles, II. 123. Nodier, Madame C., II. 123. Noel, R. R., I. 506. Norman, Mr., 11. 390. Northampton, Marquis of, it. 176. Norton, Charles Eliot, II. 328, 491 note. Norton, Mrs., Andrews, I. 334 note, 398 not