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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 6: (search)
id, in her gentle and beautiful, but decided manner, Je crois, Monsieur, que nous sommes une forte preuve du contraire de tout cela Mad. de Pastoret has the distinguished honor of being the first person to imagine and establish an infant school, and she told me tonight that she had lived long enough to see the grandchildren of her first objects of charity coming daily to receive its benefits, with—in several instances — the same matrons to take care of them. Until lately she was the Lady President of these institutions in France; but this year the Ministry thought fit–perhaps wisely–to put them under the protection and control of the University, and as she said to-night, the wife of M. de Pastoret could not with propriety enter into relations with the Minister of Public Instruction; so that she resigned her place, without, however, giving up her interest or diminishing her real exertions in the cause. I was delighted to see her again, and to find her still, though nearly seventy
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
d see. Here are the Lyells coming a second time, nothing daunted by their first experiment. The steam packets will bring you almost to our door; and when you are once here, you can judge of the soundness of your American investments, a great deal better than you can even through Bates's wide correspondence and painstaking judgment, for the whole depends upon the character of the people. This you may think is a bold remark in me just now, when you are thinking so ill of us, for electing Polk President, and taking measures to annex Texas. But it is true, nevertheless. You have nothing else to depend upon, as far as you are a holder of American funds, but the moral sense of the people who are indebted to you. The only question is, have they enough of this wisdom and honesty, to do what is wise and right? I think they have; that is, I think, in the long run, the popular sovereign may be depended upon. No doubt he has made great mistakes; no doubt he will make more. But those mistake