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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 119 (search)
d thus dispirit and weaken them very much. I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, yours, S. P. Lee, Acting Rear-Admiral, Commanding N. A. B. Squadron. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C. Report of Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Edward F. Devens. United States steamer Aries, off Little River, January 12, 1864. sir: I would most respectfully report that the steamer stranded between Tubb's Inlet and Little River is the blockade-runner Vesta. Boarded her this A. M., made a hawser fast to her, but on examining her found her whole starboard side opened and several of the plates split; took two anchors from her, which was all we could save. The-Vesta was exactly like the Ceres. I left her a complete wreck, with five feet of water in her; her boats lay on the beach, badly stove. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Edward F. Devens, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant, Commanding. Acting Rear-Admiral S. P. Lee, Commanding N. A. B. Squadron.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
urtisE. BangsBoston353 402 ShipTownsendP. Curtis'sP. CurtisA. T. HallBoston754 403 Sch.CircassianJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisT. L. MayoYarmouth72 404 ShipHerbertJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisJ. Thacher & Co.Boston619 405 ShipChascaJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisSnow & RichBoston650 406 ShipAbaellinoSprague & James'sJ. T. FosterJ. & A. TirrellBoston735 407 BarkVelocitySprague & James'sJ. T. FosterJ. AtkinsChatham246 408 Sch.Crescent CitySprague & James'sJ. T. FosterJ. T. FosterMedford112 409 BarkVestaSprague & James'sJ. TaylorJohn FlynnBoston233 410 BarkRobertSprague & James'sJ. TaylorBramhall & HoweBoston800 411 BarkHomeSprague & James'sJ. TaylorNathaniel FrancisBoston350 4121849ShipJosiah BradleeSprague & James'sJ. TaylorMinot & HooperBoston680 413 ShipClara WheelerSprague & James'sJ. TaylorBramhall & HoweBoston999 414 BarkEllaSprague & James'sJ. TaylorWilliam FlynnBoston233 415 ShipSquantumSprague & James'sJ. T. FosterThomas B. Wales & Co.Boston651 416 ShipTirrellSprague
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 12.89 (search)
Chancellorsville — address of General Fitzhugh Lee before the Virginia division, A. N. V. Association, October 29th, 1879. Mr. President, Comrades, and Ladies and Gentlemen: The musical echoes of the horn of the Alpine Chief, winding from highest mountain top to lowermost valley, were as sacred in the ears of his followers as the mystic fire which burned in the temple of the Virgins of Vesta, and its blast drew every man from his wife, his sweetheart and his fireside. So, an invitation to speak to this Association of the historic Army of Northern Virginia, should sound upon the ear of the Confederate soldier as a mandate from a band of brothers, chained to him by the loving links of a mighty past, and whose future is indissolubly wrapped up with his in one common destiny — for all time, for sunshine and for storms; irresistibly drawing him from all other obligations, it brings him, however unworthy, before you to-night, to discharge the duty assigned him by your partiality
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 11: (search)
own soil,--free at last in reality as in name,--all her people, from the islands of Boston to Berkshire Hills, and from the sands of Barnstable to the northern line, will unite in the cry,--No slave-hunt in our borders! no pirate on our strand! No fetter in the Bay State! no slave upon her land! Mr. Sumner was called this autumn to bear the loss of his beloved brother Albert, his wife and daughter Kate, who perished in the ill-fated steamer Arctic which collided with the French steamer Vesta off Newfoundland, Sept. 27, 1854, sending three hundred persons to an ocean-grave. Albert was an able financier, and had been of great service to his mother in her economical affairs. The Sumner family long hoped that some way of escape from the wreck had been effected; but no tidings of the unfortunate voyagers ever came. On the evening of the 15th of November, 1854, Mr. Sumner delivered an admirable address before the Mercantile Library Association of Boston, on The position and dutie
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Greek goddesses. (search)
sekeeper or queen of home. These, accordingly, are represented — to give both the Greek and the more familiar but more deceptive Latin namesby Artemis or Diana, Athena or Minerva, Aphrodite or Venus, Hera or Juno, Demeter or Ceres, and Hestia or Vesta. First comes the epoch of free girlhood, symbolized by Artemis, the Roman Diana. Her very name signifies health and vigor. She represents early youth, and all young things find in her their protector. She goes among the habitations of men od maidenhood, active or contemplative, in Artemis and Athena. But besides these five attitudes of woman as girl, maiden, lover, wife, and mother, there must be finally one which shall comprise all of these, and may outlast them all. Hestia, or Vesta, is the sister of Zeus, but not his wife like Hera, nor his symbolical mistress like Demeter; nay, when sought in marriage by Phoebus and Poseidon, she has sworn by the head of Zeus to be a virgin forever. She represents woman as queen of home.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
ere sung in the chapel of the choir, and walked up and down in the nave and aisles by the imperfect light of the few tapers that were scattered through the different parts of the vast pile, and seemed only to render the solemn darkness of the rest of it more visible and sensible . . . . . March 24.—We passed a Roman forenoon again to-day, going to the grand ruins on the south side of the Palatine hill, including those in the Villa Mills, and returning by the Circus Maximus, the Temples of Vesta and Fortuna Virilis, the Ponte Rotto, the house called Rienzi's, and the Cloaca Maxima. . . . April 6.—I went this morning to see Monsignor Mai, the famous discoverer of the Palimpsest manuscripts. It was not my first visit to him. . . . . He is now Secretary of the Propaganda, and likely before long to be made a Cardinal; He was made Cardinal the same year. an easy, round, but still intellectual-looking man, very kind in his manner, and with more the air of a scholar in his looks, c
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.9 (search)
d will thus possess a mute eloquence of its own, which in your willing ears, at least, will fill out the faltering accents of the speaker. Given to us by God as a help-mate, the handmaiden of Christian civilization, have we honored or exalted our women, even as the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians did? In their pagan mythology and religion they worshipped their women, in their goddesses, as much as their men, in their gods; and temples and statues filled their cities to Juno, Minerva, Diana, Vesta and Ceres, as much as to Jupiter, Neptune, Mars, Mercury, Vulcan and Apollo. There was not a wood or murmuring stream that was not presided over by some beauteous nymph as its tutelary divinity, assigned by Jove. All this has passed away with the peoples and empires of the past, and perished from the earth. The nymphs and goddesses no longer sing with the birds from the woods, nor impress their music upon the murmuring brooks as they go singing on to the sea through the ancient forests.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The patriotism of peace. (search)
wars upon the highest plane of honor. The patriotism of peace springeth from their inspiration. Kindness subdued the hate of sectional strife; then with a flash of glory, all our instruments of war pointed outwardly to make our republic a leading world power among the nations. This monument to the virtues of our artillerymen under two flags is also a vestal lamp for peace between all the Commonwealths of the American Union. It is a peace monument which Portsmouth dedicates today. Vesta, the sister of Jupiter, was the household goddess. So great was her devotion to virginity that when her brother gave her liberty of asking what she would, she requested that she might always be a virgin and have the first oblations in all sacrifices. She was not only granted her desire, but received this further honor among the Romans, that a perpetual fire was kept in her temple, not upon an altar, nor in the fireplace, but in earthen vessels hanging in the air, which the vestal virgins
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Poems Subjective and Reminiscent (search)
of the ages, arise like the sun, All speech flow to music, all hearts beat as one! III. Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease: Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing of glory to God and of good — will to man! Hark! joining in chorus The heavens bend o'er us! The dark night is ending and dawn has begun; Rise, hope of the ages, arise like the sun, All speech flow to music, all hearts beat as one! 1873. Vesta. O Christ of God! whose life and death Our own have reconciled, Most quietly, most tenderly Take home Thy star-named child! Thy grace is in her patient eyes, Thy words are on her tongue; The very silence round her seems As if the angels sung. Her smile is as a listening child's Who hears its mother call; The lilies of Thy perfect peace About her pillow fall. She leans from out our clinging arms To rest herself in Thine; Alone to Thee, dear Lord, can we Our well beloved resign! Oh, les
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Appendix (search)
ual Manifestation. To Lucy Larcom. 1871The Sisters. Marguerite. The Robin. The Singer. Disarmament. How Mary Grew. Chicago. My Birthday. 1872The Pressed Gentian. A Woman. The Pennsylvania Pilgrim. The Three Bells. King Volmer and Elsie. The Brewing of Soma. Hymn for the Opening of Plymouth Church. 1873Conductor Bradley. John Underhill. A Mystery. In Quest. The Friend's Burial. The Prayer of Agassiz. A Christmas Carmen. 1874Kinsman. The Golden Wedding of Longwood. Vesta. A Sea Dream. Hazel Blossoms. Summer. 1875I was a Stranger and ye took me in. The Two Angels. The Healer. Child Songs. Lexington. The Library. A Farewell. 1876June on the Merrimac. Sunset on the Bearcamp. Centennial Hymn. 1877Giving and Taking. Hymn of the Dunkers. The Henchman. In the Old South. Red Riding Hood. The Witch of Wenham. The Problem. Thiers. Fitz-Greene Halleck. King Solomon and the Ants. In Response. At School Close. 1878The Seeking of the Waterfall.
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