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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)
ct Attorney of the United States for the Virginia District. His application was not successful, but he was afterwards appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Adams. . . . Yours truly, Chas. Sumner. To Dr. Francis Lieber. Boston, Jan. 9, 1836. my dear friend,—Before you receive this letter you will receive a newspaper containing a slight notice of your Reminiscences with references to some English criticisms. Contributed by Sumner to Daily Atlas, Jan 6, 1836. Since that was written, the magazines for November have been received at the Athenaeum. The Monthly Review, the old monthly of England, supported of old by the first scholars and writers, Burke and Mackintosh,—the same review which noticed your Stranger in America so handsomely,—has an article of fifteen pages on your Reminiscences, written or rather compiled in a spirit of kindness and respect towards you. It will do you good in England. If any other reviews or notices appear, I w<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 11: Paris.—its schools.—January and February, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
re of stone. Besides, the walls of all buildings are so thick that, if a fire broke out in a building, it would be confined there. The engines are ridiculously small and filled by buckets; there does not appear to be any such thing as a suction-hose here. The engine companies consist of six hundred men, trained and drilled by the Government, called the sapeurs-pompiers, who are on watch in different parts of the city constantly. Americans could teach the Parisians how to put fires out. Jan 18 (Thursday). Heard Tissot Pierre Francois Tissot, 1768-1854. He was a student of the ancient classics; wrote also upon French literature and history, and was in public life under the first empire. at the College Royal de France, and also Ampere. The former is quite a classic name. He is the translator of some of Virgil's Eclogues, and has been connected with other literary labors. His subject was Latin Poetry. After exhorting his hearers to its study, and in very animated language t