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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 24: (search)
en brought about without legislation. On the other hand, we are attempting to compel the whole million and more of our people in Massachusetts, by the most stringent legislation, to do the same thing,—i. e. to stop the sale of all intoxicating liquors. But no people, and especially no people living under such free institutions as ours, can thus be driven. It is a moderate statement to say, that in Massachusetts the Liquor Law, as it is called, is broken a hundred thousand times a day. In Boston, I think any man can get what he wants, from a pipe of wine to a glass of beer, whenever he likes, and as often as he likes. Now this is a bad thing for the law, the courts, and the police generally; and it is the worse because a sort of moral foundation is claimed for disregarding such a law,—I mean, because it is claimed that it makes only one party an offender, when both parties are; since, if I buy a bottle of wine, I tempt the seller to do wrong for gain, and so become a party to the
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
08-210; journeys, 221. 222; Geneseo, 225; journeys, 226-228; Manchester, Mass., 239, 268; journeys and Lake George, 277, 281, 289. 1840-49. History of Spanish Literature, 243-262. 1850. Visit to Washington, 263, 264. 1852-67. Connection with Boston Public Library, 299-320. 1856-57. Third visit to Europe, 321-400; London, Brussels, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, Florence, 311-315, 321-311; winter in Home, 315, 316, 341-349; Naples, Florence, Turin, Paris, London, 317, 349-404. 1857-70. In Boston, 404-498. 1859-64. Life of Prescott, 436-440, 444, 449-456. 1861-65. Civil war, 433-435, 440-444, 446-449, 458-461. 1866-70. Summers at Brookline, 457, 485, 488. 1871. January 26, his death in Boston, 494. Ticknor, George, early advantages, I. 1; examined in Cicero's Orations and the Greek Testament, and admitted to Dartmouth College at 10 years old, 6; life at College from 14 to 16 years old pleasant and safe, but not laborious, 7; during eight succeeding years, uncommon relations wi