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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XXV (search)
girl is the most truly learned of her sex; . . . she is seldom otherwise than beautiful; . . . she plays all classical music without notes. Why are we so severe on poor stray Englishmen, who know no better, when we ourselves furnish such social observation as this? Yet this kind of thing may be read far and wide under the head of Society Chit-chat, and is apt to leave the impression that the writer was about as near to the wondrous creatures he describes as that coachman mentioned by Horace Walpole, who, having driven certain maids of honor for many years, left his savings to his son on condition that this chosen heir should never marry a maid of honor. The real test of the manners and morals of a nation is not by comparison with other nations, but with itself. It must be judged by the historical, not by the topographical, standard. Does it develop? and how? Manners, like morals, are an affair of evolution, and must often be a native product,—a wholly indigenous thing. This
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, Index (search)
Tourgueneff, Ivan, 219. Town and gown, 161. Tracy, Uriah, 46. Transcendental school, the, 8. Translators, American, 144. Travers, W. R., 82. Trench, R. C., 57. Trollope, Frances, 24. Tupper, M. F., 98. Twain, Mark, see Clemens. Tyndall, John, 22. U, V. Urquhart, David, 208, 209. Vestris, M., 83. Virgil, 99, 171, 217. Voltaire, F. M. A. de, 52, 53, 83, 187, 189 Von Holst, H. E., 32. W. Wagner, Richard, 16. Wallace, H. B., 51. Wallace, Lew, 67. Walpole, Horace, 135, 210. Walton, Izaak, 202. Walworth, M. T., 198, 200. Ward, Artemus, 59. Warner, C. D., 2. 72. Washington, George, 112, 155. Wasson, D. A., v., 103. Weapons of precision, 192. Webb, R. D., 29. Webster, Daniel, 155, 224. Weiss, John, 104. Weller, Sam, 182. Westminster Abbey of a book catalogue, 152. White, J. Blanco, 98. Whitman, Walt, 58, 67, 100. Whittier, J. G., 25, 60, 62, 66. Wieland, C. M., 90. Wilde, Oscar, 93. William the Silent, 6. Willis, N. P., 2
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
or the African forts; and the recommendation was followed. At last, in 1749, to give the highest activity to the trade, every obstruction to private enterprise was removed, and the ports of Africa were laid open to English competition; for the slave trade—such are the words of the statute—the slave trade is very ad- 23 Geo. II. c. XXXI. vantageous to Great Britain.—The British senate, wrote one of its members, in February, 1750, have this fortnight been pondering methods to make more Horace Walpole to Sir H. Mann, II. 438. 1750 Feb. 25. effectual that horrid traffic of selling negroes. It has appeared to us that six-and-forty thousand of these wretches are sold every year to our plantations alone. But, while the partial monopoly of the African company was broken down, and the commerce in men was opened to the competition of Englishmen, the monopoly of British subjects was rigidly enforced against foreigners. That Englishmen alone might monopolize all wealth to be derived from <
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
ter, i. 248. The paper, here referred to, mixes error with much that is confirmed from more trustworthy sources. With Pelham's concurrence, the Board of Trade Walpole's Memoirs of George II. Letter of Wm. Bollan, of Charles, the New York Agent of the Proprietary of Pennsylvania. on the eighth day of March, 1753, announced to d. Nor did public opinion in Great Britain favor the instructions. Charles Townshend was, indeed, ever ready to defend them to the last; but to the younger Horace Walpole chap. IV.} 1753. they seemed better calculated for the latitude of Mexico and for a Spanish tribunal, than for free, rich British settlements, in such opulenlpole chap. IV.} 1753. they seemed better calculated for the latitude of Mexico and for a Spanish tribunal, than for free, rich British settlements, in such opulence and haughtiness, that suspicions had long been conceived of their meditating to throw off their dependence on the mother country. Walpole's Memoires of George II.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
754. to carry it? I hope words alone will not prevail; Walpole's Memoirs of George II. i. 355. and the majority came to ing what active measures to propose, sought information Walpole's Memoires of George the Second. of Horatio Gates, a youngve no capacity for these things. Dodington's Diary. Horace Walpole, the elder, advised energetic measures to regain the lame de Pompadour and the Duke de Mirepoix, Newcastle to Walpole, 20 Oct., 1754. Walpole's Memoires, i. 347. Compare FlasWalpole's Memoires, i. 347. Compare Flassan: Hist. de la Diplomatie Francaise. the direction and conduct of American affairs was left entirely to the Duke of Cumberression of the minutest precept of the military rubric. Walpole's Memoires of Geo. II., i., 86. In Scotland, in 1746, his xpert in the niceties of a review; harsh in discipline. Walpole's Memoires of Geo. II., i., 390, confirmed by many letters its terrible severity. Calvert to Lieut. Gov. Sharpe. Walpole's Memoires, i., 365. Egmont interceded to protect America
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
e cavalry asked Lord George. I, said the brave boy, and led the way. Lord George, pretending to be puzzled, was reminded by Smith, one of his aids, of the necessity of immediate obedience; on which, he sent Smith to lead on the British cavalry, while he himself rode to the Prince for explanation. Ferdinand, in scorn, renewed his orders to the Marquis of Granby, the second in command, and was obeyed with alacrity; but the decisive moment was lost. Lord George's fall was prodigious, said Horace Walpole; nobody stood higher; nobody had more ambition or more sense. Pitt softened his misfortune with all the offices of humanity, but condemned his conduct. George the Second dismissed him from all his posts. A courtmartial, the next year, found him guilty of disobeying orders, and unfit for employment in any military capacity; on which, the king struck his name out of the council-book and forbade his appearance at court. The ability of Sackville had been greatly overrated. He was restle
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
groom at Kew; I forbid you to say the contrary; and he went directly to Carleton House, the residence of his mother. Walpole's George III. i. 6. The first person whom he sent for was Newcastle; who came in a great hurry as soon as he could pucke, III. 215. he discerned what was plotting; and after vainly seeking to inspire Newcastle with truth and firmness, Walpole's Memoirs of George III., i. 10. he insisted that the address should be amended; that chap. XVII.} 1760. Oct. it was fted Pitt's friendship, Adolphus: Hist. of England, i. 11. not to the Privy Council only, but also to the cabinet. Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of King George III., i. 8, and Sir Denis Le Marchant's Note. On the last day of October, the ng, disposed to do all in his power to make his subjects happy, but is undoubtedly of a disposition truly religious. Horace Walpole echoed the praises of his grace, dignity, and good-nature; expressed his admiration in courtly verses, and began a fr
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
; and as if to provoke France to distrust, he called the peace hollow and insecure, a mere armed truce for ten years. Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George the Third, i. 247. Rigby to the Duke of Bedford, 10 March, 1763. In Correspodence of ost the establishment of the customs in Great Britain between seven and eight thousand pounds a year. Grenville to Horace Walpole, 8 Sept. 1763, in Grenville Papers, II. 114. Lord North and Charles Yorke were members of the committee who introrenville adopted the measure of the stamp act at the suggestion of another. See the Reports by Cavendish, i. 499. Horace Walpole, a bitter enemy of Grenville's, yet says, in a note to his Memoirs of Geo. III. III. 32, that the stamp act was a meaout into a fit of laughter which continued some minutes. Anecdotes and Speeches of the Earl of Chatham, i. 369, 370. Walpole's Memoirs of Geo. III. Grenville, very warm, stood up to reply; when Pitt, with the most contemptuous look and manner, r
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 6: (search)
and had accepted another from avarice, Horace Walpole's George the Third, i. and in the hope of men regarded him as a model of integrity, Walpole's George III. i. 338, 339. Walpole then enteWalpole then entertained a most favorable opinion of his integrity. Soon afterwards he had a hitter quarrel with Grorne in mind; towards no man of his time does Walpole show himself so peevishly bitter as towards Goved by the people, became a general joke, Walpole to Mann, 30 April, 1763. and was laughed at arge the Third. He had supported the peace Walpole, in Memoirs of the Reign of King George III. le's Diary for Wednesday, 25 Dec. 1764. Even Walpole admits that Lord Holland's own friend, as weledfords, refused to find Shelburne blamable. Walpole's Geo. III. i. 262, 263. In the very paragraph in which Walpole brings these unsubstantiated charges against Shelburne, he is entirely at faul was unwilling to pass over the aspersions of Walpole. It is to be remembered also, that both whig
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 27: (search)
ple shall condemn me, I shall tremble; but I will set my face against the proudest Connection of this country. I hope, cried Richmond, the Nobility will not be browbeaten by an insolent Minister, and Chatham retorted the charge of insolence. Walpole, II. 411, Chat. Correspondence, III. 138; Duke of Bedford's Journal, for 10 Dec. 1766. But it was the last time during his Ministry that he appeared in the House of Lords. His broken health was unequal to the conflict which he had invited. Shelburne to Chatham, 1 Feb. 1767; Chat. Corr., III. 184, 185. The loud burst of rapture dismayed Conway, who sat in silent astonishment at the unauthorized but premeditated rashness of his presumptuous colleague. Grafton's Autobiography; Walpole, II. 413, 414, tells nothing of this debate, but what his hatred of Grenville prompted. Grenville was in a minority on his motion, but triumphed in his policy. The next night, the Cabinet questioned the insubordinate Minister, how he had ve
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