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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
e terms synonymous in common use, expressing what in some degrees is a frailty or defect, and in others a source of power. They designate a quality or habit which is often associated with greatness, indeed is rarely absent from it, and which has often distinguished or disfigured men who have done immortal work in letters or served mankind in eminent statesmanship; and even warriors, exclusively men of action, have not been exempt from it. Atlantic Monthly (Nov. 1887), vol. IX. p. 718. A. W. Ward's Chaucer (English Men of Letters), p. 147. Those curious in such matters may find a collection of self-estimates by famous people in Justin S. Morrill's Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons. This is known to schoolboys who lave translated the Exegi monumentum, and the orations against Catiline. Nelson, in his single interview with Wellington, whom he did not at the time know, talked of himself in so vain a style, even like a charlatan, as almost to disgust the latter, but a few moments la
The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
from performing even garrison duty at the forts of California to which place they were bound. The following are the names of the officers paroled: L. C. Sartori, commander, U. S. Navy; A Garland, Major, U. S. Marine Corps. D. M. Cohan, Captain, us Marine Corps; Tecumech Steece, Lieutenant, United States Navy; T. L. McElrath, 1st Lieutenant, U. States Marine Corps; T. H. Corrie, 1st Lieutenant, United States Marine Corps; W. B. McKean, First Lieutenant United States Marine Corps; A. W. Ward, Second Lieutenant United States; Marine Corps; C. H. Daniels Second Lieutenant United States Marine Corps. The officers were ordered to give up their side arms, and the men their muskets and equipments, which were all taken on board the Alabama, Lieut. Low next called for the manifests and finding some money on them took possession of $3,000 in Treasury notes, belonging to Messrs. Wells. Fargo & Co., and $1,500 in sliver for Nicaragua, belonging to Peyton Middleton, Esq., late United St