hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 27 13 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 21 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 19 1 Browse Search
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn 16 6 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 13 3 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.) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 4 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career.. You can also browse the collection for Joseph Story or search for Joseph Story in all documents.

Your search returned 20 results in 5 document sections:

Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 2: (search)
ght misquotation condemned the scholarship of Mr. Hoar in his estimation; and he had no confidence in his learning afterwards. He was a person of great self-possession, a trait which he inherited from his father, who when high-sheriff of Suffolk County was called upon to read the Riot Act on the stage of the Federal-Street Theatre, where a riot was in progress, and went steadily through it in the midst of a shower of brickbats. He delighted in the society of distinguished men, of whom Judge Story was then one of the foremost in Cambridge. He was deeply impressed with the beauty of the Prayer Book of our Church; and I have often heard him read in a very solemn manner many portions of it, especially the burial-service, which he would render with great pathos. Another of his companions, in a carefully-written letter, says to me, He was more given to study than to companionship. He had the reputation of being a diligent reader out of the course, and was often praised for his the
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 3: (search)
mner enters the Law School. method of study. Mr. Justice Story. Mr. Sumner's regard for him. his eloquent Tthat eminent jurist and accomplished scholar, Joseph Story, Ll.D., who very soon began to appreciate the abilitwhich he always manifested a strong interest. Mr. Justice Story was a fine belles-lettres scholar, an earnest the reader may infer from the tribute paid to Mr. Justice Story in Mr. Sumner's elegant oration on The Scholar. It was under the genial and erudite tuition of Judge Story, and in the moot courts and discussions of the Lar. Sumner, and his Reports of the Decisions of Mr. Justice Story:-- On an insurance question, before the Cougentleman whom we all knew and respected. of Mr. Justice Story. He also edited with signal ability The Ameri occasionally appeared as a professor in place of Judge Story. He was then in manner reserved, yet courteous; Brougham had expressed to him the opinion that Mr. Justice Story was the greatest judge in the world. Mr. Su
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 4: (search)
Chapter 4: Mr. Sumner visits Europe. Chief-justice Story's letter. anecdote. Mr. Sumner's Reception in England. R. M. Milnes. another letter from Judge Story. Visit to Paris. Gen.Judge Story. Visit to Paris. Gen. Lewis Cass. art Studies in Italy. glowing Description of the country. Thomas Crawford. anecdote concerning Thomas Aquinas. Acquaintances made in Germany. letter from William Prescott. Mr. Sumor Europe, taking with him letters of introduction to distinguished gentlemen abroad, from Mr. Justice Story and other eminent civilians. Mr. Sumner, says Judge Story in his letter, is a practisinJudge Story in his letter, is a practising lawyer at the Boston bar, of very high reputation for his years, and already giving the promise of the most eminent distinction in his profession: his literary and judicial attainments are truly exng speakers and the eminent statesmen of the day. In a letter to him, dated Aug. 11, 1838, Mr. Justice Story says,-- I have received all your letters, and have devoured them with unspeakable delig
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 5: (search)
rium cast upon the Abolitionists. the Annexation of Texas. Mr. Sumner's view of slavery in the true grandeur of nations. compliments of Richard Cobden, Chief-justice Story, and Theodore Parker. extracts from the speech. efforts to prevent the final vote on the Annexation of Texas. Mr. Sumner takes open ground against slaver where will Mr. Sumner take his stand? He is the pride of the aristocratic circles of Boston, a popular alumnus of Harvard University, an intimate friend of Mr. Justice Story,--who said that he should die content, if his young protege could take his empty chair in the Cambridge Law School,--and of whom Chancellor James Kent declarot Richard Cobden did not hesitate to pronounce it the most noble contribution made by any modern writer to the cause of peace. In a letter to Mr. Sumner, Mr. Justice Story says of the oration, It is certainly a very striking production, and will fully sustain your reputation for high talents, various reading, and exact scholars
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 6: (search)
Chapter 6: Mr. Sumner's Eulogy on Mr. Justice Story. his Tribute to the memory of John Pickering. oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University. reference to Dr. Channing. eloquent Extract from the oration. Mr. Sumner's method of meeting the slave power. his Compliment to John Q. Adams. his Apostrophe to Daniel Webster. his letter to R. C. Winthrop. his Distrust of the Whig party. argument on the Validity of Enlistments. speech on the war, in Faneuil Haife is sweeping by: Go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime Leave behind to conquer time. Goethe. In the autumn of this year (1845), Mr. Sumner was called to mourn the loss by death of his beloved friend and counsellor, Chief Justice Story, whom Lord Campbell characterized in the House of Lords as the first of living writers on the law. In The Boston daily Advertiser, Sept. 16, 1845, there appeared from Mr. Sumner's hand a most eloquent and discriminating eulogy of this gre