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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 4: (search)
. Mr. Sumner's Reception in England. R. M. Milnes. another letter from Judge Story. Visit to Paris. Gen. Lewis Cass. art Studies in Italy. glowing Description of the country. Thomas Crawford.d writings. It was racy, suggestive, thoughtful, matterful. From England Mr. Sumner went to Paris, where he found ready access to the highest literary circles. His knowledge of the French languw of Foreign Jurisprudence; and other famous men. He attended a whole term of the Royal Court at Paris, observing the forms of procedure, received kindness from the judges, and was allowed to peruse t to legal and social science were introduced into America. Lewis Cass was then our minister at Paris; and at his solicitation Mr. Sumner wrote a strong defence of our claim in respect to the northwhat collection of engravings which subsequently came to be one of the finest in America. From Paris Mr. Sumner repaired to Italy, the land of art, of poetry, and song. Here he gave himself up to
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 7: (search)
long to the party of freedom,--to that party which plants itself on the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States. As I reflect upon the transactions in which we are now engaged, I am reminded of an incident in French history. It was late in the night at Versailles that a courtier of Louis XVI., penetrating the bed-chamber of his master, and arousing him from his slumbers, communicated to him the intelligence — big with gigantic destinies — that the people of Paris, smarting under wrong and falsehood, had risen in their might, and, after a severe contest with hireling troops, destroyed the Bastile. The unhappy monarch, turning upon his couch, said, It is an insurrection. No, sire, was the reply of the honest courtier: it is a revolution. And such is our movement to-day. It is a revolution, not beginning with the destruction of a Bastile, but destined to end only with the overthrow of a tyranny differing little in hardship and audacity from that whi
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 13: (search)
eon. visits Europe. he declines a public dinner in Paris. letter from Heidelberg. anxiety to return to his from Aix in Savoy. life at Montpellier. return to Paris. Visit to La Grange. return to the United States. of freedom and repose. Soon after his arrival at Paris, a public dinner was tendered him (April 28) by the ed there the effects of a sprain. When I saw him in Paris he had recovered altogether from the first effects own upon him. He was considered as amusing himself in Paris, as pretending to be ill. In fact, he wanted to get ontinuing the study of engravings in the cabinets of Paris. In the latter part of August he visited Aix in Savucal Palace or the far-famed Rialto. He returned to Paris in November by the way of Vienna, Berlin, and Munichn to visit Italy in the spring. Returning thence to Paris, he still found the state of his health improving. r the benefit of sea-bathing, Mr. Sumner returned to Paris in the autumn almost entirely well; and with exquisi
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 16: (search)
eorge Sumner, who died in Boston, after a lingering illness, Oct. 6, 1863, in his forty-seventh year. He studied in Germany, travelled extensively in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and was an author and lecturer of marked ability. He resided long in Paris, and had cone more, said Baron Humboldt, to raise the literary reputation of America abroad than any other American. Among other works lie published The progress of reform in France, 1853; and delivered an oration before the authorities of the cspondence, or producing something for the public press. An elegant and learned article from his ready pen appeared in The Atlantic Monthly for November of this year, contrasting the diplomatic mission of Dr. Franklin with that of John Slidell at Paris, and ingeniously tracing the celebrated Latin epigram, Eripuit Coelo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis, which was inscribed. on the portrait of the great philosopher, to its origin. In this charming essay the writer's intimate acquaintance with the