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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
hts, to hear the debate. But nobody except an Englishman would have gone through it, I think. When I arrived the Speaker was not in the chair, and the House, in committee, was considering a case of divorce, and examining two or three female witnesses. Nothing could well be more disorderly than the whole proceedings. Parts of them were indecent; and, at the best, there was much talking, laughing, and walking about; no attention paid to the business in hand, or to the speakers, though O'Connell, Spring Rice, and some other men of mark were among them; and as for dignity, deference, or propriety of any sort, it was evidently a matter not heeded at all. I sat, as a foreigner, on the floor, and had a most truly comfortable place; and talked quite at my ease, without suppressing my voice at all, with the members whom I knew, or to whom I was introduced. . . . . Finally, when Peel rose to open the debate in earnest, the House could be said to attend to the business before it. And well
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 24: (search)
the book on Slavery is written with only the usual talent of his other works, I will venture to predict that it will be more admired than anything he has yet printed. One good, and only one that I know of, can come from this state of opinion in Europe; the Southern States must be rebuked by it, and it is better the reproach should come from abroad than from New England and the North. How general and strong it is in Great Britain I need not tell you, for you see how Sir Robert Peel, and O'Connell, the Standard, and the Morning Chronicle,—the High Tories because they dislike us, and the Whigs because they choose to be consistent,—all unite in one chorus, ever since they have gotten rid of slavery in the West Indies so much more easily than they feared. Just so it is on the Continent. Tocqueville's acute book, which contains so much truth as well as error about us,—and which Talleyrand says is the ablest book of the kind published since Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws,—has explained
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
lands in, 298. Newcastle, England, 272. New Haven, visits, 14. New Orleans, battle of, 29, 37. Newton, Stewart, 412, 421, 422. New York, visits, 15, 27, 404. Niagara, visits, 386. Nibby, Carlo, 171. Nichols, Rev. J., 336. Niebuhr, B. G., 127, 177, 178. Niemeyer, Chancellor, 110, 113. Niemeyer, Professor, 111, 112. Noailles, Alexis de, 254. Noel, R. R., 506. Norton, Mrs., Andrews, 334 note, 398 note. Norton, Professor, Andrews, 17, 319, 334, 355, 356. O O'Connell, Daniel, 411, 416, 480. Oehlenschllger, Adam, 126. Ogilvie, James, 8. Oken, Professor, 115. Oliver, Robert, 41. O'Neil, Miss, 53. Ord, Mr., 415. Orleans, Due da, 493. Ossuna, Duchess of, 205, 207, 208, 223. Otis, H. G., 12-14, 20, 21, 40, 339, 359, 360. Owen, Robert, of Lanark, 278. Oxford, visits, 289, 404. P Paez de La Cadena, 489. Painting, Spanish School of, 216, 221, 239. Palafox y Melzi, Don J., 206. Palfrey, John Gorham, 331. Palissot, Baron, 131. Palme