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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 225 225 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 9 9 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
the letter which you alluded to in your correspondence with me auld lang syne. Letter of President Washington to Bushrod Washington, of July 27, 1789. Sparks's Life and Writings of George Washington, Vol. X. p. 23. Lieber's Political Ethics (1875) Vol. II. pp. 30-34. Bushrod Washington was the nephew of the President, and desired the appointment of District Attorney of the United States for the Virginia District. His application was not successful, but he was afterwards appointed a Judgeorge Washington, Vol. XI. p. 188. Lieber had applied to Sumner by letter, Sept. 2, 1835, while writing his Political Ethics, for information relative to the appointment of Bushrod Washington to an office. Ante, p. 173. Lieber's Political Ethics (1875), Vol. II. pp. 30-34. Sumner, in a speech in the Senate, May 31, 1872, treated at length of Nepotism, with reference to the administration of President Grant, drawing historical parallels. He discussed it briefly in a speech intended to be deliv
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 12: Paris.—Society and the courts.—March to May, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
mahogany desk before him. There were a good many speakers, one of whom was quite prominent, being able, eloquent, and humorous. This was the Count Jaubert. Count Hippolyte Francois Jaubert was born in 1798. He was in the Chamber of Deputies from 1831 to 1844. In 1840 he received the portfolio of Public Works. He was one of the four members of the National Assembly, who, in the vote of July 10, 1872, opposed the treaty of evacuation with Germany. He is noted as a botanist. He died in 1875 or 1876, while a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He made a severe attack on the ministry, which produced a sensible effect. He was very witty and caustic, and was constantly interrupted by exclamations of tres bien, or by murmurs of dissent, or more frequently by laughs at his sarcasm. I observed all the distinguished members of the House, and scanned their features. Guizot is justly eminent. His literary labors have been immense, and his political elevation is now as distinguished as
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
was hushed to catch his slightest accents. You listened, and you felt that you heard a man of mind, of thought, and of moral elevation. Shell Richard Lalor Sheil, 1793-1851. then broke forth with one of his splendid bursts, full of animation in the extreme; in gesture and glow like William Sturgis; 1782-1863; a merchant of Boston. in voice, I should think, like John Randolph. He screamed and talked in octaves, and yet the House listened and the cheers ensued. Sir Edward Sugden 1781-1875; author of law treatises on Vendors and Purchasers and Powers; entered Parliament in 1828; Solicitor-Genera in 1829; Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1834-35 and 1841-46; and, in 1852, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, with the title of Baron St. Leonards. tried to speak, but calls of question, divide, and all sorts of guttural, expectorating sounds from members in a corner, or outstretched on the benches of the gallery, prevented my catching a word of what he said during the half-hour he was on h