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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 1 (search)
n the meantime George remained at the school at Mount Hope, which he had entered December, 1829, to await the result of his mother's application for an appointment for him as cadet at the Military Academy. During this interval of waiting he seems to have pursued his studies with ardor. During a year he read, in Latin, Caesar's Commentaries and six of the orations of Cicero; in French, Telemaque and Charles XII of Sweden; in mathematics, Colburn's Arithmetic and Algebra, Walker's Geometry, Playfair's Euclid, and Trigonometry in Gummies' Surveying; Goodrich's History of the United States, Hart's Geography, and the greater part of Comstock's Chemistry and Natural Philosophy; which was doing very well for a lad of fifteen. The principal of the school pronounced him a boy of decided parts, of uncommon quickness of perception and readiness in acquiring knowledge; studious withal, and exceptionally correct in his deportment. This school, as well as the others, he left with the respect an
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
bald Murray was in Parliament from 1832 to 1835; succeeded Francis Jeffrey, in 1834, as Lord-Advocate, and, losing the office in a few months, resumed it in 1835, and was raised to the bench in 1839 as a Lord of Session. He died March 7, 1859, in his eighty-first year, at his residence on Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh. Save Brougham, he was the last survivor of that company of men who distinguished the society of Edinburgh during the first third of the present century,—Jeffrey, Brougham, Playfair, Sydney Smith, Francis Horner, Thomas Brown, and Henry Cockburn. A note of Sydney Smith, introducing Sumner to the Lord-Advocate, was forwarded to the latter, and was at once recognized by welcoming Sumner to Strachur Park, near Inverary, with directions to come by Loch Lomond, Tarbet, and Cairnclan. In London, he afterwards invited Sumner to take tea at 1 Parliament Place, with Sydney Smith and Harriet Martineau as expected guests. It was Murray who gave the motto, at which Sydney Smith
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
Chapter 14: Edinburgh. news of his mother's death. Mrs. Grant. Mrs. Fletcher. Playfair. Scott. Abbotsford. Southey. Wordsworth. Dr. Parr. Sir James MacKINTOSHintosh. London. Hazlitt. Godwin. Wilberforce. return to America. To Mr. Elisha Ticknor. Edinburgh, February 11, 1819. I have received singly, and then, if you insist upon talking with him, it is most probable he will talk very well. I know of but two exceptions to this remark, and they are Prof. Playfair and Walter Scott, who under all circumstances must be delightful men. To his sister . . . . I build a great many castles in my head, and have many a wak as remarkable as her mother. This was, therefore, a delightful house to visit, and during the latter part of the time I was in Edinburgh I went there often. Playfair is a most interesting man of seventy. I would rather be like him, in general temper, manners, and disposition, than like anybody of that age I know. To say not
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
4. Philadelphia, visits, 15, 352. Phillips, Professor J., 422, 437 and note. Phillips, Thomas J., 443. Phillips, Willard, 391. Piacenza, visits, 162. Pichon, Baron, 132, 261. Pickering, John, 85, 391. Pickering, Octavius, 391. Pictet, Deodati, 153. Pictet, Professor, 153, 155, 159. Pillans, James, 280. Pinkney, William, 39, 40, 41 and note. Pittsfield, Mass., Elisha Ticknor head of school in, 2. Pius VII., 173, 174. Pizarro, Chev. Don L., 207, 208, 212. Playfair, Professor, 276, 279. Plymouth, visits, 327-331. Poinsett, Joel R., 350 and note. Pole, Mrs., 467, 471. Polk, Mr., 381. Ponsonby, Frederic, 443. Porson, Richard, 108. Portal, Dr., 133, 138. Porter, Dr., 356. Portland, visits, 337, 385. Portsmouth, N. H., visits, 123 note. Portugal, visits, 242-249; people of, 242. Posse, Count, 183. Posse, Countess. See Bonaparte, Christine. Pozzo di Borgo, Count, 131. Prague, visits, 509-511. Prescott, Judge W., 12, 13, 316, 337,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
I. 113, 114, 120. Pickering, John, I. 85, 391, II. 251. Pickering, Octavius, I. 391. Pictet, Deodati, I. 153, II. 37. Pictet, Professor, I. 153, 155, 159, II. 37. Pierce, Professor B., II. 310. Pillans, James, I. 280. Piltz, Dr., II. 313. Pinkney, William, I. 39, 40, 41 and note. Pisa, visits, II. 92-94. Pittsfield, Mass., Elisha Ticknor head of school in, I. 2. Pins VII., I. 173, 174. Pizarro, Chev. Don L., I. 207, 208, 212. Plattner, II. 58, 59. Playfair, Professor, I. 276, 279. Plymouth, visits, I. 327-331. Podenas, Marquis de, II. 41. Podenas, Marquise de, II. 41, 125. Poinsett, Joel R., I. 350 and note. Pole, Mrs., I. 467, 471. Polk, Mr., I. 381. Ponsonby, Frederic, I. 443. Ponsonby, Mr., II. 176. Porson, Richard, I. 108. Portal, Dr., I. 133, 138. Portalis, Count, II. 134, 135. Porter, Dr., I. 356. Porter, Miss, Jane, II. 178. Portland, visits, I. 337, 385. Portsmouth, N. H., visits, I. 123 note. Portugal, vi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sergeant Smith Prentiss and his career. (search)
hould not hazard it at all. But the eminent Chief Justice of the high court of errors and appeals of Mississippi thought that Prentiss appeared to most advantage before that court, and a distinguished judge of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who had heard him before the chancellor of Mississippi, expressed to me the opinion that his talents shone most conspicuously in that forum. These were men who could be led from a fair judgment of a legal argument by mere oratory, about as readily as old Playfair could be turned from a true criticism upon a mathematical treatise by its being burnished over with extracts from Fourth of July harangues. Had brilliant declamation been his only or chief faculty, there were plenty of his competitors at the bar who, by their learning and powers of argument, would have knocked the spangles off of him and sent his cases whirling out of court, to the astonishment of hapless clients who had trusted to such fragile help in the time of trial. It may be aske