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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 5: more changes--1886-1888; aet. 67-69 (search)
ort from other worldly imaginings. If God says anything to me now, he says, Thou fool. The truth is that we have no notion of the value and beauty of God's gifts until they are taken from us. Then He may well say: Thou fool, and we can only answer to our name. The Journal says:-- This is the last day of this sorrowful March which took my dear one from me. I seem to myself only dull, hard, and confused under this affliction. I pray God to give me comfort by raising me up that I may be ZZZ Michael. nearer to the higher life into which she and her deai father have passed. And thou? eleison.... Have had an uplifting of soul to-day. Have written to Mary Graves: I am at last getting to stand where I can have some spiritual outlook. The confusion of is not is giving place to the steadfastness of is. Have embodied my thoughts in a poem to my dear Julia and in some pages which I may read at the meeting intended to commemorate her by the New England Woman's Club. The Jou
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Some Cambridge schools in the olden time. (search)
y one hearer to another, that Mr. Stone was very ill, or Mrs. Tremor bereaved, but that they had a note up. Sometimes the paper contained a suggestion to be acted upon without being read aloud. The note Dr. C. sent was meant to be of this kind. These were the words: There is a slaveholder in my pew; please to cut him up in the last prayer. But to turn from this digression to the public school which, to use Mrs. Burnett's phrase, is the one I knew the best of all, viz., that founded in ZZZ809,. of which I became a member somewhere in the twenties. Though the schoolhouse was a building of two stories, only the lower one was occupied by the school. The outer door opened into a little vestibule where were nails for hanging coats and hats; here too was another door to a stairway with which we had nothing to do. The schoolroom itself — there was but one (a fine contrast to the spacious halls and classrooms of today) was furnished with clumsy desks or tables having a narrow shelf
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), chapter 11 (search)
ur hours between two successive passages of the same star over the meridian, thus gaining about four minutes a day over solar time. This clock is, perhaps, the most important instrument in the observatory, for it is essential to the proper use of Zzz the other instruments. A fine new clock Zzz has been presented to the Observatory recently which will undoubtedly make some of the work easier, possibly even more accurate. On our way out of this building we must step into the library for a mZzz has been presented to the Observatory recently which will undoubtedly make some of the work easier, possibly even more accurate. On our way out of this building we must step into the library for a moment. Here are between seven and eight thousand bound volumes and nearly ten thousand pamphlets. A considerable proportion of these books and pamphlets contain records of observations made at different times all over the world. The Harvard Annals alone fill a long row of thick quarto volumes. Those dry looking pages of statistics contain many interesting secrets for future discovery. Now let us see what are the other buildings. A good sized wooden house at a little distance, serves as
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
crew your courage to the sticking place And we'll not fail. June 7.—This morning I breakfasted with Mr. Sharp, and had a continuation of yesterday,—more pleasant accounts of the great men of the present day, and more amusing anecdotes of the generation that has passed away. After breakfast he carried me through the Stock Exchange into the London Exchange, the square area of a large stone pile built in the time of Charles II.; from there to Lloyd's Coffee-House, and finally to Guildhall.Zzz To Mr. And Mrs. Ticknor. London, June 8, 1815. . . . . I cannot tell you how happy your letters have made me. It is all well, and I am sure home must still be to you what it always has been to me, the place of all content and happiness. You, my dear father, are now, I suppose, at Hanover, and I know all that you are enjoying there. . . . . Tell the children how dear they will be to me wherever I may go, and do not suffer them to forget me, for there are few things I should dread so mu
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Dante. (search)
But by the largess of celestial graces, Such had this man become in his New Life Potentially, that every righteous habit Would have made admirable proof in him; Some time I did sustain him with my look (volto); Revealing unto him my youthful eyes,Zzz I led him with me turned in the right way. As soon as ever of my second age I was upon the threshold and changed life, Himself from me he took and gave to others. When from the flesh to spirit I ascended, And beauty and virtue were in me increaseorward pathos, the single and sufficient thrust of phrase, he has no competitor. He is too sternly touched to be effusive and tearful: Io non piangeva, si dentro impietrai. For example, Cavalcanti's Come dicesti egli ebbe? Inferno, X. 67, ZZZ08. Anselmuccio's Tu guardi si, padre, che hai? Inferno, XXXIII.51. His is always the true coin of speech, Si lucida e si tonda Che nel suo conio nulla CI s' inforsa, and never the highly ornamented promise to pay, token of insolvency. No d
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Milton. (search)
. Thus in a famous comparison of his, the fleet has no definite port, but plies stemming nightly toward the pole in a wide ocean of conjecture. He generalizes always instead of specifying,— the true secret of the ideal treatment in which he is without peer, and, though everywhere grandiose, he is never turgid. Tasso begins finely with Chiama gli abitator della ombre eterne II rauco suon della tartarea tromba; Treman le spaziose atre caverne, E la aer cieco a quel rurtiar rumor,???mbombaZZZ but soon spoils all by condescending to definite comparisons with thunder and intestinal convulsions of the earth; in other words, he is unwary enough to give us a standard of measurement, and the moment you furnish Imagination with a yardstick she abdicates in favor of her statistical poor-relation Commonplace. Milton, with this passage in his memory, is too wise to hamper himself with any statement for which he can be brought to book, but wraps himself in a mist of looming indefiniteness;
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications. (search)
Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications. The letters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and friends. Edited by Mrs. Hale. 12zmo. Price ZZZ1$.50. The charm of Madame de Sevigneas letters has so long been acknowledged that criticism is uncalled for in referring to them, nor would it be easy to find a word of admiration or praise that has not already been pronounced in their favor. For spontaneity, tenderness, playfulness, sweetness, they are unequalled. The style is all that is most simple and natural and graceful. Madame de Sevigne has no variety of inspiration, and but little profundity of thought. She is inspired by only one sentiment, her love for her daughter; but this single note is so sweet, and is sung in so many keys, and with such a pleasing accompaniment of spicy gossip and pensive meditation, that its monotony is never unpleasing. The influence which these letters have exerted upon the development of the French language and French literature has again giv
Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union, Company H. (search)
er. Sept. 27, 1862. Trans. to 5th Co. 1st Batt. V. R.C. April 22, 1863. Disch. April 18, 1864. Gros. Granadino, Boston, 32, m; sailor. Oct. 15, 1862. M. O. Sept. 28, 1865. Eli Hawkins, Boston, 25, s; sailor. Sept. 30, 1862. Disch. May 20, 1865. Unof. Robert Hill, Rockport, 22, s; sailor. Oct. 22, 1862. Deserted, Nov. 30, 1862, Jamaica, L. I. James Hickey, Worcester, 24, s; mechanic. Jan. 16, 1864. Deserted Aug. 1864. Martin Healey. Clinton; 28, s; laborer. Jan. 5, ZZZ6. Disch. June 26, 1865. Francis T. Hazlewood, Boston, 43, m; piano-maker. Sept. 22, 1862. Died Jan. 29, 1864, New Orleans, La. Unof. William H. Holden, Stoneham, 30, m. Sept. 28, 1862. Died Sept. 19, 1863, Baton Rouge, La. Randall F. Hunnewell, Salem, Me. 28, s; laborer, Oct. 22, 1862. Killed in action, May 1, 1864. Unof. Thomas F. Johnson, Charlestown, 38, m; carver. Sept. 26, 1862. Disch. disa. Unof. John Kelly, Boston, 26, m; sailor. Sept. 30, 1862. Wounded Sept. 1
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. Zzz Jefferson Davis. Jefferson Davis was born June 3, 1808, in that portion of Christian county, Kentucky, which was afterwards set off as Todd county. His grandfather was a colonist from Wales, living in Virginia and Maryland, and rendering important public service to those southern colonies. His father, Samuel Emory Davis, and his uncles, were all Revolutionary soldiers in 1776. Samuel Davis served during the Revolution partly with Georgia cavalry and was also in the siege of Savannah as an officer in the infantry. He is described as a young officer of gentle and engaging address, as well as remarkable daring in battle. Three brothers of Jefferson Davis, all older than himself, fought in the war of 1812, two of them serving directly with Andrew Jackson, and gaining from that great soldier special mention of their gallantry in the battle of New Orleans. Samuel Davis, after the Revolution removed to K
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, The Tenth Massachusets Battery (search)
f that day, about a hundred men assembled at the Eastern Railway Station in Boston. At the command, Fall in, Tenth! we formed line and went on board a train standing near to receive us, bound for Lynnfield, at that time one of the rendezvouses established for the reception of regiments and companies prior to their departure for the seat of war. This assemblage of men constituted the first tangible evidence that there existed such an organization as the Tenth Massachusetts Battery. While sZZZ ers and seamen, blacksmiths and tailors, carpenters and teamsters, clerks fresh from the pen or yardstick, teachers, hard-handed laborers, policemen and restaurant keepers. All these, with men of various other callings, combined to make up a motley collection of tastes, interests and prejudices, such as war always assembles. But all these differences of calling and taste were to be sunk in a common unity of purpose and interest. Henceforth we should know each other as soldiers and soldier
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