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William Wirt (search for this): chapter 5
to which his father had been subjected on account of his participation in this controversy. He was a diligent reader of the newspapers and pamphlets on the subject, with which the period abounded, particularly of Mr. Hallett's Free Press, which he frequently posted to his friends. He is supposed to have contributed articles to this newspaper, and even to have had charge of it for a short time, during the editor's absence. He was an admirer of eminent Anti-masons, like Richard Rush and William Wirt, the latter of whom he hoped to see elected President at the next election, of 1832. He pressed the great and good cause of Anti-masonry, as he called it, on his favorite classmates, Browne, Hopkinson, Hopkinson wrote, May 10, Leave off reading newspapers, and forget politics till you are thirty; by so doing you may redeem the pledge which Webster says the public hold of you. Tower, Stearns, and Frost; but, while they were not partisans of the Order, they did not sympathize with his
Stephen White (search for this): chapter 5
iff speech, which was begun at Faneuil Hall, Oct. 30, and concluded the next (Sunday) evening at Quincy Hall. A few days later, Sumner went to Salem, as Browne's guest, and attended the trial of Joseph J. Knapp, as accessory to the murder of Stephen White. He heard Mr. Webster's closing argument for the government. It was in this address, which according to the newspapers of the day ended with a peroration of surpassing pathos, that Mr. Webster, alluding to the suggestion that the jury shoul78-385. Rev. Dr. Emery, a classmate of Sumner, writes:— Immediately after graduating, I opened a private school in Beverly; and, while residing in that town, the great trial of Knapp, as an accomplice of Crowninshield in the murder of Mr. White, took place in Salem. Mr. Franklin Dexter and Mr. W. H. Gardiner were Knapp's counsel, and Webster was on the side of the State. The trial attracted many from the neighboring towns,—law-students and young lawyers. Among them Sumner was prese
Fletcher Webster (search for this): chapter 5
e close of a lecture by Chief-Justice Shaw, Mr. Webster opened the envelope in presence of the audiwards sent to Sumner, with a note signed by Mr. Webster, certifying that they were awarded as a pree, who came from Salem for the purpose, heard Webster's tariff speech, which was begun at Faneuil Hy to the murder of Stephen White. He heard Mr. Webster's closing argument for the government. It ith a peroration of surpassing pathos, that Mr. Webster, alluding to the suggestion that the jury sanklin Dexter, the defendant's counsel, and Mr. Webster are given in Commonwealth v. Knapp, 10 PickReports, p. 477. The celebrated argument of Mr. Webster on the earlier trial of John F. Knapp as prs, Vol. II. pp. 41-105. See Curtis's Life of Webster, Vol. I. pp. 378-385. Rev. Dr. Emery, a Mr. W. H. Gardiner were Knapp's counsel, and Webster was on the side of the State. The trial attr; by so doing you may redeem the pledge which Webster says the public hold of you. Tower, Stearns
D. Webster (search for this): chapter 5
e, honor. Centennial Oration, ante, p. 74. Webster, I understood, said it was the best discourseand lastly the huge leviathan of New England, Webster himself. He spoke but a few minutes, simply Quincy Hall was crowded to overflowing, and Mr. Webster concluded. His peroration brought to my mi displayed. I leave it to your imagination. Webster was followed by H. G. Otis, who spoke about ts a contrast to the bold, nervous delivery of Webster. He plainly showed that age had slackened hiciety for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,—D. Webster, President, John Pickering, V. P.,—offered ae Shaw had finished the evening lecture) by Mr. Webster himself, in presence of the society, and fos something on this may be expected soon from Webster. He is an Anti-mason, and in this I speak from more than report. Curtis's Life of Webster, Vol. I., pp. 391-393, 508-511, refers to Mr. Web3, 508-511, refers to Mr. Webster's course on this question. Your true friend, Charles Sum
Amasa Walker (search for this): chapter 5
hich you have subjected yourself. Such voluntary sacrifices in a man of your age and circumstances augur well of his coming years. Persevere! Browne wrote, Sept. 28, You have begun well. Quarter-past five in the morning is auspicious. Macte! Walker's geometry, with its points, lines, angles, &c., is a good employment for an adept in mathematics, like yourself. ... Read your course of history by all means. If you mean to grapple with the law, dissect the feudal system. Your reading is a fo brick as a specimen of a house he had for sale, acted about as wisely as the Faculty in this particular, thus forcing us to slice off a few bits and offer them as the successful Bowdoin dissertations. . . . Just a week ago yesterday, I commenced Walker's Geometry, and have now got nearly half through. All those problems, theorems, &c., which were such stumbling-blocks to my Freshman-year career, unfold themselves as easily as possible now. You would sooner have thought, I suppose, that fire an
Gilbert Wakefield (search for this): chapter 5
ssion, he was not idle. He rose at quarter-past five in the morning, and retired at midnight, often later. Having no private room for the purpose, he used as a study one of the parlors, where he was much interrupted by the children. He took but little exercise, and did not go into society. His readings were, in the classics, Tacitus, Juvenal, Persius; in poetry and general literature, Shakspeare and Milton, Finished, Oct. 12. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, The Correspondence of Gilbert Wakefield with Charles James Fox, Chiefly on Subjects of Classical Literature, Moore's Life of Byron, Butler's Reminiscences, Hume's Essays; and, in history, Hallam, Robertson, and Roscoe. He copied at great length into his commonplace-book—soon after laid aside—the narrations and reflections of these historians. He read both the Lorenzo de Medici and the Leo X. of Roscoe; and on completing the former, Oct. 29, he wrote:— The character of Lorenzo de Medici appears to be one of the most<
Charlemagne Tower (search for this): chapter 5
lected science. I am glad to hear this news. Tower wrote, Nov. 1, recommending Dibdin's Introductsmates were greatly pleased with his success. Tower wrote, June 5, I rejoice with you, Sumner, in e which Webster says the public hold of you. Tower, Stearns, and Frost; but, while they were not ne. Macte nova virtute Sumner's letters to Tower and Stearns, which are preserved, are playful,it. Letters to classmates. To Charlemagne Tower, Waterville, N. Y. Boston, Sept. 27, 18s a like time with you soon. C. S. To Charlemagne Tower, Albany, N. Y. Boston, Friday Evening, sius, Sat. V. 66, 67; quoted with reference to Tower's remissness in correspondence. . . . Your . From your true friend, C. S. To Charlemagne Tower. Boston, Friday, June 10, 1831. my d. . . . Your friend truly, C. S To Charlemagne Tower, Waterville, N. Y. Boston, Monday Eveniising from the severance from your studies. Tower had been obliged to suspend his studies in ord[4 more...]
Thucydides (search for this): chapter 5
t,— So many pathes, so many turnings seene, That which of them to take, in diverse doubt they been. The Faerie Queene. I wish to read the principal classics, particularly Latin ones. I fear I shall never reach the Greek. I have thought of Thucydides, the hardest but completest historian. I shall not touch him probably. Tell me your experiences of Herodotus. . . . From your true friend, C. S. To Jonathan F. Stearns, Bedford, Mass. Sunday eve, Aug. 7, 1831. my friend, my old Collountry. No more of this though. With Boston I shall leave all the little associations which turned aside my mind from its true course. In the way of classics, I wish to read Tacitus, Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Sallust, Cicero, Horace, Homer, Thucydides, and choice plays of the great tragedians. Do you start? I only say I wish to do it; but I mean to do it if impossibility is not written upon it. I wish also to reacquaint myself with political economy and intellectual philosophy. I find mys
Venice (Italy) (search for this): chapter 5
the American people. Speech in the Senate, April 6, 1853 Works, Vol. III. pp. 212-214. Sumner and the classmates with whom he had been intimate kept up their interest in each other. Gifts of books were interchanged. He gave a Byron to Browne, and a Milton to Hopkinson; and received from Browne Sterne's Sentimental Journey, and from Hopkinson a polyglot Bible. Sumner gave his classmate Kerr, in their Senior year in college, the Apothegms of Paulus Manutius, an edition printed in Venice in 1583. Having access to bookstores and libraries, he was often the agent of his classmates in borrowing and purchasing books. He maintained a frequent correspondence with Browne, who was studying law with Rufus Choate at Salem; with Hopkinson, who was first a tutor at Cambridge and then a law-student at Groton; with Tower, who was teaching school at Waterville, N. Y., and afterwards studying law with Hermanus Bleecker, in Albany; and with Stearns and Frost,—who were teaching, the former a
Waterville, N.Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
g law with Rufus Choate at Salem; with Hopkinson, who was first a tutor at Cambridge and then a law-student at Groton; with Tower, who was teaching school at Waterville, N. Y., and afterwards studying law with Hermanus Bleecker, in Albany; and with Stearns and Frost,—who were teaching, the former at Northfield, and the latter at Frnhood had now come with its work and duties, and he entered upon it in a serious and resolute spirit. Letters to classmates. To Charlemagne Tower, Waterville, N. Y. Boston, Sept. 27, 1830. Scene.—Fourth-story, House 53 Hancock Street, half-past 10 in the evening. my friend,— Truditur dies die, Novaeque perguntiterature; all of them shall meet my encounter. Methinks I must read some of the Greek tragedians. . . . Your friend truly, C. S To Charlemagne Tower, Waterville, N. Y. Boston, Monday Evening, Aug. 29, 1831. my dear friend,—. . . I can fully sympathize in your feelings arising from the severance from your studies. To
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