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1798 AD (search for this): chapter 7
e uttered in England. Brougham asked me the meaning and etymology of the word caucus. I told him that it was difficult to assign any etymology that was satisfactory; but the most approved one referred its origin to the very town where Lord Lyndhurst was born, and to the very period of his birth,—in this remark alluding to his age, which I was not justified in doing, especially as he wears a chestnut wig. Lord Brougham at once stopped me. Yes, said he, we know what period you refer to,—about 1798. Somewhere in the latter part of that century, I replied, anxious to get out of the scrape as well as I could by such a generality. I was gratified by Lyndhurst's calling upon me a few days afterwards, because it showed that he had not been disturbed by my unintentional impertinence. The style of intercourse between Lyndhurst and Brougham, these two ex-Chancellors, was delightful. It was entirely familiar. Copley, a glass of wine with you. He always called him Copley. And pointing out
March 1st, 1875 AD (search for this): chapter 7
3, and referring to persons mentioned in her recent Life of her husband, said: I was glad to read of Charles Austin, whose talk I always placed, as you do, foremost. Why does he not appear in Parliament? Mrs. Grote calls him the first of conversers.—The Personal Life of George Grote, pp. 42, 139, 154, 155, 254. Greville speaks of him as a lawyer, clever man, and Radical, ch. XVIII. June 18, 1832. His characteristics and his habits in retirement are described in the Fortnightly Review, March 1, 1875, Vol. XXIII. pp. 321-338. In our Civil War he took the side of the Government against the Rebellion. who is of the common law bar, though he practises chiefly before Parliamentary committees. He has just sprung into an income of fifteen thousand pounds. He is about forty-two years old, and is a bachelor. He is the brother of John Austin. I think Charles Austin the only jurist at the English bar. It is only recently that he has arrived at his present position, and he has employed his
1797 AD (search for this): chapter 7
Graham, the wife of Sir John Graham; and Mrs. Phipps. All of these are very clever people. Ellice is the person whose influence is said, more than that of all other men, to keep the present ministry in power. Fonblanque Albany W. Fonblanque, 1797-1872; an early contributor to the Westminster Review, editor of the Examiner,—a weekly newspaper,—from 1822 to 1846, and appointed, in 1852, director of the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade. Greville thought him a very agreeable man. e least degree compare with that vast circle which constitutes English society. The difference of education is very much against us. Everybody understands French, and Latin, and Greek,—everybody except Chantrey. Mrs. Jameson, Mrs. Anna Jameson, 1797-1860; author of The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art, and other works. She married in 1824, and accompanied her husband to Canada. A separation followed, and she returned to England. Sumner met her in Paris in 1857, or later. who likes Americ<
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