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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, John Biddle (search)
o hold meetings for worship, or maintaining their connexion in any way as a religious society upon Unitarian principles. We mention this as a subject of regret, not of censure, with which we, who live in more peaceful tranquil days, have no right to visit those who yielded to trials which we ourselves might not have been able to bear. The only one of Mr. Biddle's disciples who has attained any distinction is Mr. Thomas Firmin, then a young man, who lived, however, to become a very eminent London merchant, and the associate and intimate friend of Archbishop Tillotson, Fowler, Bishop of Gloucester, and others of the most distinguished men of his time. In his private intercourse with these friends, he made no secret of his Unitarian opinions; and it is even understood that many tracts in the curious and valuable collection already mentioned, and known by the name of the old Socinian Tracts, were written under his direction, and published at his expense. But he was all his life an out
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Zzz Missing head (search)
aks of as facts. His perceptions of abstractions were so intense that they seem to have reached that point where thought became sensible to sight as well as feeling. What he thought, that he saw. He relates his visions of the spiritual world as he would the incidents of a walk round his own city of Stockholm. One can almost see him in his brown coat and velvet breeches, lifting his cocked hat to an angel, or keeping an unsavory spirit at arm's length with that gold-headed cane which his London host describes as his inseparable companion in walking. His graphic descriptions have always an air of naturalness and probability; yet there is a minuteness of detail at times almost bordering on the ludicrous. In his Memorable Relations he manifests nothing of the imagination of Milton, overlooking the closed gates of paradise, or following the pained fiend in his flight through chaos; nothing of Dante's terrible imagery appalls us; we are led on from heaven to heaven very much as Defoe
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
m of other centuries in religious strifes was extinct; and the new passion for popular power was but just beginning to swell. Europe rocked like the ocean on the lulling of a long storm, when the opposite wind has just sprung up, throwing the heaving billows into tumultuous conflict. The absence of purity in public life extinguished attachment to the administration, and left an opportunity to the Pretender to invade Great Britain, to conquer Scotland, to advance within four days march of London. This invasion had no partisans in America, where the house of Hanover was respected as the representative of Protestantism. In England, where monarchy was established, the vices of the reigning family had produced disgust and indifference; but the friends of revolution did not look beyond a choice of dynasty. America was destined to choose, not between kings, but between forms of government. On the continent France gained fruitless victories. Her flag waved over Prague only to be str
The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
h improvement when he travels through the mills of Manchester, or along the docks of Liverpool, where cotton — the creature of slavery--Southern slavery-- Virginia slavery — Richmond slavery — is nothing, if not King. There is another fact worthy the attention of the London Times, and that is, that while there has never been a mob in the city of Richmond since its foundation, there has been for one whole year in the very heart of London, one of the vilest and most brutal mobs which even London has ever known — a mob which has collected every Sunday in St. George's Church, and in that house of God, on every Sunday for more than a year, has hooted, howled, blasphemed and rioted, from morning till night, assaulting the attending clergymen, chasing them to their homes, and on one occasion actually kicking the wife of one of the ministers! And all this time Parliament has not interfered, the press of London has connived at the brutality, including the London Times, which is so shocke
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], An Unsentimental Physician. (search)
One day later from Europe arrival of the Arago. New York Jan. 23. --The Arago, with London papers to the 9th inst., has arrived. Advices from Gaeta, on the 5th, say that some of the shells thrown had penetrated the room over that occupied by the king. His Ministers insisted on his removing to other quarters. Hungarian, Polish and Garibaldian volunteers were arming at Pesa for the Danubian Principalities. The Emperor of Austria proclaims a comprehensive amnesty for Hungary, Croatia, Transylvania and Sclavonia. Paris, Wednesday.--In the Bank of France a deficit of nearly 2,000,000 francs is anticipated. The affairs of the Bank are discouraging. The American panic has affected France equally with England. The City of Washington had sailed for New York with nearly $500,000 in specie. Rome, Jan. 5. --Placards are posted about the streets exhorting the Romans to a wait the arrival of the Sardinians. The Neapolitan troops had been ordered home.
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
Emperor of Austria! come into Court. --The Kaiser sues Kossuth in an English Court. The Hapsburg on his throne pleads by proxy his case, before an English Judge, against a defeated and exiled rebel. Kossuth has engaged a firm of London lithographers to engrave for him 100,000,000 florins worth of notes in the Hungarian language, (in which no Austrian paper money is ever issued.) The face of each note declares that it will be received in every Hungarian State and public pay office, and that its nominal value is guaranteed by the State in the name of the nation.--The signature of Kossuth, and the royal arms of Hungary, are appended. Of course, these notes are intended for circulation, and are revolutionary in their character, and would be revolutionary in their influence. The Austrian ambassador consequently obtained through the London police a warning to the engraver; but the law officers of the Crown subsequently decided that the administrative department of the English Gove
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cassius M. Clay and the London Times--"Our Foreign Relations." (search)
give undue prominence to the views which he has so unwisely sought to thrust upon the people of England. "our Foreign Relations." The New York Herald, of Thursday, editorially says: Secretary Seward's dispatch to Mr. Dayton is again criticised in a very sneering manner by the London Times, and another English journal does not hesitate to class Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet and the insurgent Southern conclave of rebels as the two American factions. Lord Palmerston says, through his London organ, the Post, that Canada will soon become the centre of commerce and emigration for the American continent. Our compilation from the foreign files, given to-day, in such connection, is worthy of serious consideration, and exhibits a manifest tendency towards an unfriendly policy to the Government at Washington, which, if carried out, may result in giving England a severe lesson, for which she is probably not prepared. Mr. Lindsay, M. P., who recently visited this country, in a spee
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
Russian Policy in Europe --Important Semi-Official Declaration.--There is in the Invalids Ruses an article upon the interview at Warsaw, which, coming from so important an organ of the Russian government, demands special attention. The writer addresses himself to the subject of the statement, conveyed by telegraph to London, that at Warsaw questions had been put by Austria to Russia as to whether the latter would recognize what had passed in Italy; and secondly as to her attitude in case of Piedmont being supported by another power? Professing to discuss these questions in the light of mere hypotheses, the writer points to the withdrawal of the Russian embassy from Tourin, as proof of the dissatisfaction. But he goes on to argue that between blame of principles and refusal to recognize facts when they become accomplished there is a wide difference. If the "unification" of Italy should become a fact, through the will of twenty-four millions of people, there would be no goo
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1860., [Electronic resource], White gunpowder. (search)
White gunpowder. --A letter from London says:"I have heard in the city of a curious invention, which concerns alike sportsmen, riflemen, and the scientific. It is the manufacture of 'white' gunpowder. It is made no mystery of, being composed of yellow potass, chloride of potassa, loaf sugar, crystallized sugar and brimstone. It possesses superior qualities over the black powder, being quicker and more powerful in its action, and not fouling the gun. For the delicate in the olfactory nerves, it may be added that it is without unpleasant smell. It has just been patented."
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
y who had now removed to London. They had been there about a year, when Mr. Openshaw suddenly informed his wife that he had determined to heal long-standing fends, and had asked his uncle and aunt Chadwick to come and pay them a visit and see London.--Mrs. Openshaw had never seen this uncle and aunt of her husband's. Years before she had married him there had been a quarrel. All she knew was, that Mr. Chadwick was a small manufacturer in a country town in South Lancashire. She was extremely pleased that the breach was to be healed, and began making preparations to render their visit pleasant. They arrived at last. Going to see London was such an event to them that Mrs. Chadwick had made all new linen fresh for the occasion, from night-caps downward; and as for gowns, ribbons, and collars, she might have been going into the wilds of Canada, where never a shop is, so large was her stock. A for night before the day of her departure for London she had formally called to take le
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