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Apennines (Italy) (search for this): chapter 2
ness of the Empire, he directed his steps towards Italy, the enchanted ground of literature, history, and art,— strewn with richest memorials of the past, filled with scenes memorable in the progress of man, teaching by the pages of philosophers and historians, vocal with the melody of poets, ringing with the music which St. Cecilia protects, glowing with the living marble and canvas; beneath a sky of heavenly purity and brightness. with the sunsets which Claude has painted; parted by the Apennines, early witnesses of the unrecorded Etruscan civilization; surrounded by the snow-capped Alps, and the blue, classic waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The deluge of war submerging Europe had subsided here, and our artist took up his peaceful abode in Rome, the modern home of art. Strange vicissitude of condition! Rome, sole surviving city of antiquity, once disdaining all that could be wrought by the cunning hand of sculpture, who has commanded the world by her arms, her jurisprudence, her
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
lcome lecturers in the towns and cities of Massachusetts, as well as in other places in New Englandthe spirit of caste which then lingered in Massachusetts, it may be mentioned that the lyceum at Nenguished presence of any one of his age in Massachusetts. He was described in 1850 as wearing a dald Republican, and other newspapers in western Massachusetts, gave sympathetic notices of the addre He says that his studies of the cases in Massachusetts will enable him to present some curious getes, and especially in the Constitution of Massachusetts, and maintained that before that principle, Courier, April 17, 1847; The Position of Massachusetts, viewed in the light of the division in thte to his brother, July 17: The offices in Massachusetts have all gone most rigorously according toand many others on political resistance in Massachusetts to slavery; with David Dudley Field on the . . . Your appeal to the great Senator of Massachusetts gave me a thrill of delight. Would God he[1 more...]
Canandaigua (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
r home in Washington, and counted as one of the attractions of his new home a renewal of familiar intercourse with Sumner, which the Senator's death prevented. cordially received him. The last named wrote in December, 1850: We shall always have a plate for you at five o'clock, and we will add the stalled ox to our dinner of herbs, and have no strife. He visited William Jay at Bedford. Other visits were to his classmate Henry Winthrop Sargent at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, to the Grangers at Canandaigua, the Wadsworths at Geneseo, and the Porters at Niagara. Occasionally he visited Saratoga. Sometimes he extended his journey to Canada. He had friends there,—among them Lord Elgin, Lord Elgin was the brother of Sir Frederick Bruce, afterwards minister to the United States, and of Lady Augusta Stanley. Lady Elgin was the daughter of the first Earl of Durham. Sumner meeting her in 1839 is referred to, ante, vol. II p. 40. the governorgeneral, and Lady Elgin, whom he had met at her f
Fishkill (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
dy in the country who was so familiar with the different varieties and value of these articles as he was; and this is equally true of engravings, china, and to a great extent of paintings and other works of art. In his many visits to my place at Fishkill his mind would become entirely horticultural. I had a very large collection of evergreens, nearly two hundred varieties, all botanically labelled. He was very found of going out by himself, and studying the various distinctions and characterisnd expenditures of a monarchy, and not of a republic. Still, I know that the future is secure, and all things tend to our desires, even through disappointments. . . . When will this accursed passport system be abolished? To Longfellow, from Fishkill on the Hudson, September 15: my dear Henry,—I have passed several happy days here with an ancient classmate, Sargent, Henry Winthrop Sargent. who lives with great elegance at a beautiful seat on the banks of the Hudson. All here have rea
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 2
ual and no parliament can control, and it seems to me that by these Canada is destined to be swept into the wide orbit of her neighbor. CanadI. p. 45. . . . Meanwhile our people continue quite indifferent to Canadian affairs except as their startling character furnishes news under tand the Northern States have not yet entertained the question. But Canada must make the advance. I cannot doubt that if Canada were admitteCanada were admitted into our Union, her apparently incongruous races would be fused, as in Louisiana and Pennsylvania, by the potent though quiet action of our s reply, Nov. 7, 1849, agreed with Sumner as to the future union of Canada with the United States. Sumner's Works, vol. XII. pp. 172-175. Susionally he visited Saratoga. Sometimes he extended his journey to Canada. He had friends there,—among them Lord Elgin, Lord Elgin was the of war, and the later one containing a remarkable prediction that Canada and the United States would yet become one, Works, vol. XIII. P
Fort Niagara (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ord the loss. My money does go as no other money seems to go. I verily believe, if I had a million it would slip through my open fingers. Similar mishaps befell him in later life, when he could better bear them. He had another in 1859 on the train between Washington and Philadelphia, and still another about the same time at a station in Boston. After delivering his address at Union College he visited Saratoga, where Dr. Howe joined him, and thence he made an excursion to Trenton Falls, Niagara, and Geneseo, at which last place he was a guest at the Wadsworths'. One who heard him at Union College wrote that he made an impression as an orator in whom it is hard to say whether the gifts of nature or the accomplishments of art in its highest sense are most pre-eminent. W. M. G. in the New York Tribune, July 29. George Ripley replied, June 8, 1849, in the same journal, to some criticisms on the address, and received a note of thanks from Sumner. This was the beginning of their ac
Westphalia (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (search for this): chapter 2
cle, in March, 1848, upon Henry Wheaton, Boston Advertiser, March 16, 1848. Works, vol. II. pp. 63-73. Sumner, when in Paris in 1836, entertained the purpose of competing for a prize on the history of the law of nations since the Peace of Westphalia, which had been offered by the French Academy of Moral and Political Science, but his plan of travel interfered with his entering the competition. Mr. Wheaton, then in Paris, whom he had consulted as to his purpose, afterwards sent in a paper which became the basis of his History of the Progress of the Law of Nations since the Peace of Westphalia. Letter of Sumner, Nov. 22, 1865, to S. A. Allibone, published in the latter's Dictionary of Authors, title Henry Wheaton, p. 2668. then recently deceased, which set forth his services as a practical diplomatist and a writer on the Law of Nations. He became in his youth acquainted with Mr. Wheaton, but the acquaintance did not then ripen into intimacy. Such, however, was his great interes
Niagara County (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ns of his new home a renewal of familiar intercourse with Sumner, which the Senator's death prevented. cordially received him. The last named wrote in December, 1850: We shall always have a plate for you at five o'clock, and we will add the stalled ox to our dinner of herbs, and have no strife. He visited William Jay at Bedford. Other visits were to his classmate Henry Winthrop Sargent at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, to the Grangers at Canandaigua, the Wadsworths at Geneseo, and the Porters at Niagara. Occasionally he visited Saratoga. Sometimes he extended his journey to Canada. He had friends there,—among them Lord Elgin, Lord Elgin was the brother of Sir Frederick Bruce, afterwards minister to the United States, and of Lady Augusta Stanley. Lady Elgin was the daughter of the first Earl of Durham. Sumner meeting her in 1839 is referred to, ante, vol. II p. 40. the governorgeneral, and Lady Elgin, whom he had met at her father's house in England. Lord Elgin, in his speech in
Portsmouth, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ns which I cannot adopt, or a tone with which I cannot sympathize. Professionally I might allude to your style; and I must confess that true to my calling, in reading the Union College oration, I more than once them theme-corrector. Nineteen zodiacs have gone round since I was occupied in that exhilarating office in your behalf; and I assure you, my dear sir, that I rejoice in a supposed fault, now and then, which reminds me of those days and of you. Rev. Andrew P. Peabody wrote from Portsmouth, Sept. 29, 1846:— Permit me to express with my thanks for the copy of your address [at Phi Beta Kappa anniversary] my intense personal gratification in its perusal, and my deep sense of the services which you are rendering to the one great cause of peace, freedom, and progress. Upon that cause you have concentrated the memories and influence of the illustrious men commemorated in your address (I was going to say with consummate art, but it is not so) with a naturalness and spontanei
Holland (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter 2
ious generalizations. I doubt not his report will be a most important contribution to science. Prescott's heart seems to shrink before his vast stores of materials illustrating Philip II. With his waning sight, he fears that he cannot accomplish the work, and he has thought of executing some fraction only,—as for instance, the siege of Malta, the expedition of Don Sebastian, or the Dutch war. If he takes a part only, I have exhorted him to present a view of the origin and establishment of Dutch independence. This would be an important theme with a proper unity. To J. G. Palfrey, February 22:— Let me recommend to you to procure a book, The past, the present, and the future, by H. C. Carey, a work of political economy and speculation. It makes for peace strongly, showing the true policy of peace. Though the writer is a free-trader, he is obliged to admit what he calls self-defensive tariffs; but argues finally for direct taxes. This is towards the close of the book. I
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