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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 10: a chapter about myself (search)
ded in a sacrifice, whose purity and pathos have had much to do with the redemption of the human race from barbarism and the rule of the animal passions. During the first score of years of my married life, I resided for the most part at South Boston. This remoteness from city life insured to me a good deal of quiet leisure, much of which I devoted to my favorite pursuits. It was in these days that I turned to my almost forgotten Latin, and read the Aeneid and the histories of Livy and Tacitus. At a later date my brother gave me Orelli's edition of Horace, and I soon came to delight much in that quasi-Hellenic Roman. I remember especially the odes which my brother pointed out to me as his favorites. These were: Maecenas atavis edite regibus; Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus; O fons Bandusiae; and, above all, Exegi monumentum sere perennius. With no pretensions to correct scholarship, I yet enjoyed these Latin studies quite intensely. They were so much in my mind that, wh
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Narrative and legendary poems (search)
Again he wrote in 1698 to his father that he finds the Indians reasonable people, willing to accept good teaching and manners, evincing an inward piety toward God, and more eager, in fact, to understand things divine than many among you who in the pulpit teach Christ in word, but by ungodly life deny him. ‘It is evident,’ says Professor Seidensticker, ‘Pastorius holds up the Indian as Nature's unspoiled child to the eyes of the European Babel, somewhat after the same manner in which Tacitus used the barbarian Germani to shame his degenerate countrymen.’ As believers in the universality of the Saving Light, the outlook of early Friends upon the heathen was a very cheerful and hopeful one. God was as near to them as to Jew or Anglo-Saxon; as accessible at Timbuctoo as at Rome or Geneva. Not the letter of Scripture, but the spirit which dictated it, was of saving efficacy. Robert Barclay is nowhere more powerful than in his argument for the salvation of the heathen, who li
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Notes. (search)
k. Again he wrote in 1698 to his father that he finds the Indians reasonable people, willing to accept good teaching and manners, evincing an inward piety toward God, and more eager, in fact, to understand things divine than many among you who in the pulpit teach Christ in word, but by ungodly life deny him. It is evident, says Professor Seidensticker, Pastorius holds up the Indian as Nature's unspoiled child to the eyes of the European Babel, somewhat after the same manner in which Tacitus used the barbarian Germani to shame his degenerate countrymen. As believers in the universality of the Saving Light, the outlook of early Friends upon the heathen was a very cheerful and hopeful one. God was as near to them as to Jew or Anglo-Saxon; as accessible at Timbuctoo as at Rome or Geneva. Not the letter of Scripture, but the spirit which dictated it, was of saving efficacy. Robert Barclay is nowhere more powerful than in his argument for the salvation of the heathen, who live
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 5: first visit to Europe (search)
ed, we could look down into the crowded street, and out upon the wonderful bay, and across the bay to Ischia and Capri and Sorrento, and over the house-tops and villas and vineyards to Vesuvius. The ominous pillar of smoke hung suspended above the fatal mountain, reminding us of Pliny, its first and noblest victim. A golden vapor crowned the bold promontory of Sorrento, and we thought of Tasso. Capri was calmly sleeping, like a sea-bird upon the waters; and we seemed to hear the voice of Tacitus from across the gulf of eighteen centuries, telling us that the historian's pen is still powerful to absolve or to condemn long after the imperial sceptre has fallen from the withered hand. There, too, lay the native island of him whose daring mind conceived the fearful vengeance of the Sicilian Vespers. We did not yet know Niccolini; but his grand verses had already begun their work of regeneration in the Italian heart. Virgil's tomb was not far off. The spot consecrated by Sannazaro's
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 22: (search)
tural right of all; but the doctrine of equality may be carried to the destruction of this monarchy. Lord Temple treated as a jest his brother-in-law's distinction in regard to internal taxation. Did the chap. XXII.} 1766. Feb. colonies, he continued, when they emigrated, keep the purse only, and give up their liberties? And he cited Shakspeare to prove that who steals a purse steals trash; then advising the Lords to firmness towards the colonies, he concluded with an admonition from Tacitus. The question before your lordships, said Camden, the youngest baron in the house, concerns the common rights of mankind. The resolution now proposed gives the legislature an absolute power of laying any tax upon America. In my own opinion, my lords, the legislature had no right to make this law. When the people consented to be taxed, they reserved to themselves the power of giving and granting by their representatives. The colonies, when they emigrated, carried their birthright with
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 2: (search)
els from central Asia; a language, copious, elastic, inviting self-explaining combinations and independent development; lending itself alike to daily life and imagination, to description and abstract thought. They had a class of nobles, Waitz, Deutsche Verfassungs Geschichte, i. 86. but their tongue knew no word for slave. Chap. II.} The earliest foreign observers, who described their customs, relate that their leaders in war, their judges, and, within narrower limits, their kings, Tacitus, Germania, § 7, 11. Bethmann-Hollweg, Civil Process, IV. 95. were elective officers, liable to be displaced. They tempered monarchical power by deliberative assemblies and by a free people. To the first Roman intruder, a German matron spoke the command, Turn back! Mommsen, Die Germanische Politik des Augustus, 556. and Roman organization never passed the southern and western skirts of their land. They became the hardiest nation in Europe. For four or five centuries some of their b
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1860., [Electronic resource], Cold Dip. (search)
magnificent Thebes went up and the gigantic temples on the Upper Nile, and when letters first started from her nurseries of instruction toward Greece, was a Slaveholding Monarchy. Greece, the Greece of the days of Pericles, Themistocles, Demosthenes,--the Greece that created the Parthenon and the Temples of the Acropolis,--was a Slaveholding Democracy, or Republic. Rome, too, in her palmiest days, when Cicero spoke, when Virgil wrote his Epic, when Horace, Ovid, Sillust, Martial, Tacitus, and Seneca lived, was a Slaveholding State. The Augustan era was a Slaveholding era. The highest civilization of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, was in the strongest era of Slavery. Then Civilization and Slavery, whether Slavery be right or wrong, were perfectly compatible. Gibbon shows us, that the decline and fall of the Roman Empire began with the abolition of Slavery. Let the Tribune put this Express tobacco in its pipe and smoke it. Moreover, how would cotton and rice be cultiva
The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Interesting facts. (search)
1 in 1,299; in Massachusetts, to 1 in 43; in Maine, to 1 in 14. The height above the ocean which gives protection to the life of a European in hot climates, becomes fatal to the negro. M. Boudin refers to the fact that, in the earliest times, despotism made use of exile into countries alien to their nature for the destruction of different people. With this view, after the destruction of Jerusalem, a great number of Jews was sent to Sardinia, on the occasion of whose exile the heathen Tacitus makes a reflection which the Northern Christians have indulged towards their own friends, whom they have sent to invade the South: "Even if they should fall victims to a murderous climate, the loss would not be very great." After the war of the Morea, Mehemet Ali, wishing to get clear of the undisciplined Arnouts, sent them to the shores of the Red Sea, where, in a few years, eighteen thousand men were reduced to four thousand, by the mere influence of the climate. The deaths among the
The Daily Dispatch: April 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], Notice. (search)
e few old trees and the mountains are my own work, and, to a great extent, the work of my own hands. Human nature is incapable of enjoying more happiness than has been my lot here, where the glories of the prospects and the luxury of the wild retirement have been all enhanced by the progress of my improvements, of my children, and of myself. I have been too happy, and often tremble in the anticipation that the cloud must come at last. Warburton says that there was not a bush in his garden on which he had not hung a speculation. There is not a recess in the valleys of the Pentland, nor an eminence on their summits, that is not familiar to my solitude. One summer I read every word of Tacitus in the shattered crevice of a rock (called "My Seat") about 800 feet above the level of the sea, with the most magnificent of scenes stretched out before me." What scanty materials for happiness would these seem to frivolous pleasure hunters, and to minds devoured by inordinate ambition.
The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five hundred dollars reward. (search)
rtunity offers, she may thank herself for the infliction. Of all the remorseless, hard-hearted, unfeeling brutes that Yankeedom has sent forth to waste the South, this man is the most remorseless, the most hard-hearted and the most brutal. Tacitus says that when you confer a favor on a man, if it be of such a magnitude that he can repay it, he will be grateful for it; but when it is so great that he can never hope to make a proper return, instead of considering it a favor, he will hate you for it. Tacitus lived in the worst era of the world and in the most universally corrupt society of which there is any account. He drew his pictures from nature as it presented itself to him. The observation we have alluded to was, no doubt, true with regard to those among whom he lived. It is to be hoped, however, it is not true of the world in general. Of the Yankees, however, it is eminently true, and to Sherman it applies with greater force than any other Yankee (even) of whom we recoll
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