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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
He always seemed to have known men's hearts. This was the gift of his mysticism—the gift which mysticism has often bestowed upon natures predisposed to kindness. Almost inevitably this gift produces sadness. Lincoln did not form an exception. The pity of men's burdens, the vision of the tears of the world falling for ever behind its silences, was as real in this peasant dreamer of our rude West as in that clerkly medieval dreamer whom Walter Pater has staged so magically in the choir at Amiens. But the exquisite melancholy of the singer in the high church with its glorious windows can easily slide down smooth reaches of artistic contemplation into egoism. The rough, hard world of the West, having less of refuge for the dreamer, made the descent less likely. Nevertheless its equivalent was possible. To stifle compassion, or to be made unstable by compassion, was a possible alternative before the rapidly changing Lincoln of the early years of this period. What delivered him fro
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 22: 1848! (search)
asy of joy with which, on the morning of March 28th, 1848, you read in the morning papers these electric and transporting capitals. Regale your eyes with them once more: Fifteen days later from Europe. arrival of the Cambria. highly important news! Abdication of Louis Phillippe! A Republic proclaimed. the royal family have left Paris. assault on the Palais royal. great loss of life. communication with the interior cut off. Resignation of Ministers. revolt in Amiens—Paris in alarm. What history is condensed in these few words? Why has not that history been faithfully and minutely recorded, as a warning and a guide to the men of future revolutions? Why has no one deduced from the events of the last eighty years a science of Revolution, laid down the principles upon which success is possible, probable, certain? The attempt, and not the deed confounded Europe, and condemned her to more years of festering stagnation. As I looked out of the window of
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
his whole life in New England, and even before the colonists left England, he was a member of the government. First elected an Assistant in England in 1629, he held that office eight different years, was Deputy Governor thirteen years, and Governor four years, to wit, 1634, 1640, 1645, 1650; Commissioner of the United Colonies, 1643, 1647, 1649, and President 1647, 1649. His military skill and energy seem to have been appreciated; he commanded a company of eighty volunteers at the siege of Amiens in 1597; was appointed Lieut.-colonel of the Southern regiment, on the first military organizations of the Colony, in 1636, and Major-general of all the forces, 1641. So entirely was his life devoted to the public service, that a particular biography of him would be a general history of the Colony during the same period. Gov. Dudley was twice married; by his first wife, Dorothy, he had five children, who came to New England; she d. 27 Dec. 1643, and he m. Katherine, wid. of Samuel Hagburn
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, D. (search)
his whole life in New England, and even before the colonists left England, he was a member of the government. First elected an Assistant in England in 1629, he held that office eight different years, was Deputy Governor thirteen years, and Governor four years, to wit, 1634, 1640, 1645, 1650; Commissioner of the United Colonies, 1643, 1647, 1649, and President 1647, 1649. His military skill and energy seem to have been appreciated; he commanded a company of eighty volunteers at the siege of Amiens in 1597; was appointed Lieut.-colonel of the Southern regiment, on the first military organizations of the Colony, in 1636, and Major-general of all the forces, 1641. So entirely was his life devoted to the public service, that a particular biography of him would be a general history of the Colony during the same period. Gov. Dudley was twice married; by his first wife, Dorothy, he had five children, who came to New England; she d. 27 Dec. 1643, and he m. Katherine, wid. of Samuel Hagburn
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), The conflict with slavery (search)
for them. Memoire Historique et Politique des Colonies. Up to 1801 the same happy state of things continued. The colony went on as by enchantment; cultivation made day by day a perceptible progress, under the recuperative energies of free labor. In 1801 General Vincent, a proprietor of estates in the island, was sent by Toussaint to Paris for the purpose of laying before the Directory the new Constitution which had been adopted at St. Domingo. He reached France just after the peace of Amiens, when Napoleon was fitting out his ill-starred armament for the insane purpose of restoring slavery in the island. General Vincent remonstrated solemnly and earnestly against an expedition so preposterous, so cruel and unnecessary; undertaken at a moment when all was peace and quietness in the colony, when the proprietors were in peaceful possession of their estates, when cultivation was making a rapid progress, and the blacks were industrious and happy beyond example. He begged that this
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Brooks Estates in Medford from 1660 to 1927. (search)
eward her in some degree for her goodness. . . . I was married at the age of twenty-five, on November 26, 1792. Soon after this came the French Revolution and a war between England and France. Commerce increased prodigiously and premiums also [he was in the insurance business at a time when all underwriting was done by individuals at private offices, of which there were but three in Boston], owing to the captures and restraints of the powers of war, so that from June, 1793, to the peace of Amiens, I was more busily employed and perhaps more profitably than any young man of my acquaintance. . . . The funding system and the First National Bank were great objects of speculation in 1791, and about that period Mr. Brown [a trusted adviser] took no part in them himself, but urged me to, and I did to great advantage, for though I had little property then, he kindly offered to stand in as my surety to any amount. Now it was, what with my office and the funds, that I made money hand over han
The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
onsul, was so much irritated that he made it the subject of a formal complaint to the government of Great Britain. Finding that he could obtain no redress, but that, on the contrary, the book was specially patronized by royalty, on account of its calumnies with respect to himself, the first Consul directed General Sebastiani to draw up a counter statement. This book of Wilson's, and the vile abuse of the English press, had great influence, it was supposed, upon the rupture of the treaty of Amiens. Wilson, it was said, was deceived by one Roworth, a printer, who assisted him in compiling his history, and who produced an obscure pamphlet, published at Constantinople, and of no sort of authority, in proof of the monstrous crimes attributed to General Bonaparte.--It was not in Wilson's nature to examine very strictly anything which tended to the discredit of Bonaparte, and so he readily adopted the lies of the pamphlet. About the same time he published a work upon the organization of t
The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of Hon. R. J. Manning. (search)
onger, in our article of Wednesday, by stating that the British debt, at the period designated, bore an interest, some of three, some of four, and some of five per cent. We were well aware of the fact; it does make the case stronger, as will be seen by the following statistics. We deal here altogether with round numbers. The British debt at the commencement of the wars of the French revolution, 1793, amounted to £234,000,000 sterling. During the first war, terminating by the treaty of Amiens in 1802, it increased £327,000,000 sterling, ($1,635,000,000.) It therefore amounted at the peace aforesaid, to £561,000,000 sterling or about $2,800,000,000. It increased £40,000,000; sterling, or $200,000,000, during the peace, which lasted about fifteen months. When England again went to war in 1803, therefore, she was in debt £601,000,000 sterling, or a little more than $3,000,000,000. From that time to the end of the war, the debt increased £511,000,000 sterling, or near $2,600,000,000.<
The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Appointment of Attorney General. (search)
f Bonaparte in Italy, the career of Jourdan and Moreau on the Rhine, and Pichegru in Holland, the treaty of Campo Formlo, the invasion of Egypt, the battle of the Nile, the expulsion of the French from Italy by the Prussians and Austrians, under Suvaroff, the campaign of Massena in Switzerland, the return of Bonaparte, his assumption of the reins of Government as First Consul, the battle of Marengo, all came in that space of time, after the maximum had been repealed.--France, at the peace of Amiens, might be said, indeed, to have continental Europe at least "at her feet;" but, as we have just said, it was seven years after the maximum had been laid to rest. "What occasion had France to adhere to this policy, when she fed her armies from the stores of other nations and replenished her treasury by contributions upon them?" None whatever, either then or previously. It was an unalloyed evil during the short time it continued, and had it continued twelve months longer France would hav
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Why Chambersburg was burnt. (search)
The ocean and the dikes. A traveler in Holland, during the peace of Amiens, says that one night while he was at one of the coast towns, there came a horrible roar of surge and billow and raving Boreas; so horrible, that even the phlegmatic Dutchmen were inclined to give it all up, and many of them sent their wives and children, goods and chattels, far into the interior, never doubting that the dike must give way and their whole town be swamped into annihilation. Next morning, however, the sun rose clear and bright, and when our traveler, among others, took courage to go down and examine the site of the anticipated breach, he found the dike stronger a million times than all the labor of half a dozen plodding centuries had ever been able to make it. The raging ocean, he says, had hurried before him such a mass of sturdy solid stuff that every heave it gave only added a new line of bulwark to the deserted barrier of trembling Mynheer, who, in consequence of that fortunate hurricane
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