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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Fayal and the Portuguese. (search)
you a handful of nuts without first bringing the bundle near to his lips with a graceful wave of salutation. A lady from Lisbon told us that this politeness surpassed that of the native Portuguese; and the wife of an English captain, who had sailed d education; so that, when you have asked them if they have ever been to St. Michael, and they have answered, Yes,--or to Lisbon, and they have answered, No,--then social intercourse rather flags. I gladly record, however, that there were some remare heard a rumor of a Portuguese Uncle Tom also, but I never could find the copy. The old Convent Libraries were sent to Lisbon, on the suppression of the monasteries, and never returned. There was once a printing-press on the island, but one of thour visit, without further Satanic interference. Books proved to be scarce on the island. One official gentleman from Lisbon, quite an accomplished man, who spoke French fluently and English tolerably, had some five hundred books, chiefly in the
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 12: (search)
ol of painting. Sir John Downie. journey to Lisbon with contrabandists. Cintra. Portuguese sociabandists that smuggle dollars from Seville to Lisbon, and in return smuggle back English goods fromists with whom he had travelled came as far as Lisbon, and Mr. Ticknor used to tell the following anr from Bellas, about eleven English miles from Lisbon, and passes frequently under ground, and severalmond trees, is worthy of the neighborhood of Lisbon; while, as you look perpendicularly down, your course, speak with minuteness or assurance of Lisbon. I was there only from October 23 to November covers, and there was generally somebody from Lisbon, or some friends in Cintra, that came in to ocwo or three others, I finished the evening. Lisbon, on my return, seemed cold and inhospitable, fever, that I felt the want of society, even at Lisbon. . . . I knew a good many persons who interestMr. Bell, and two or three other Englishmen in Lisbon, who take an interest in letters. The prece[7 more...]
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
Chapter 13: Voyage from Lisbon to Falmouth. immediate departure for Paris. society. Talleyrand. return to London. Lord Holland. Sir J. MacKINTOSHintosh. John Allen. Lord Brougham. Hatfield. Woburn. Cambridge. To Mr. Eli. The first thing I asked for was, of course, my letters. . . . . None are so late as the one I received from you at Lisbon, just before I left;. . . . still I am extremely anxious to receive later accounts, which will tell me the effect cold wea melancholy fact, which I am sure will not a little strike you, that, after having been four months at Madrid and one at Lisbon, besides my journeys to the great cities of Andalusia, I should be at last obliged to come back to Paris, to find books a understood their literatures than they do themselves: while, at the same time, his books left in France, in Gallicia, at Lisbon, and two or three places in England; his manuscripts, neglected and lost to himself; his manners, lazy and careless; and
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
, or dear Eliza, or Savage. You were all deceived by your hopes, and if this prevented you from preparing me for the great calamity with which God is now afflicting us all, it is certainly not for me to complain that the blow has fallen so heavily. . . . . Cogswell will tell you I have been very calm, considering how small my fears were. . . . I pray God to reconcile me altogether to his will. I have endeavored to do what seemed to me right and best,. . . . and even if I had embarked at Lisbon, where I received the first news that made me think her constitution had received a considerable shock, I should have arrived too late. . . . I see, dearest father, with what Christian resignation and firmness you meet the dreadful shock, and I pray continually that I may be enabled to follow your example. . . . I cannot now make any plan, or think of my situation and circumstances coolly enough to be sure of myself, but of this you may be certain, that I will do nothing unadvisedly, and
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 23: (search)
of Lord Granard, and nephew of the late Marquis of Hastings,—better known as the Prince of Wales's Earl of Moira and the South Carolina Lord Rawdon,—and he lives here in a very pleasant, hospitable, and comfortable style, as a bachelor. His sister, Lady Rancliffe,—now, I think, just about fifty,—pleasant and good-natured, is here on a visit to him. Mr. Forbes is, I should think, not far from the age of his sister, and has been for a great many years in the diplomatic service of England,—at Lisbon, Vienna, etc.,—but he has never been a full minister till he was sent as such to this Court, two or three years ago. He seems extremely good-humored, and much disposed to do what will be useful and agreeable to us, and came with Lady Rancliffe and spent part of last evening with us. One evening he carried me to the house of General Watzdorff,— the principal officer in the King's household,—who receives once a week. There were about sixty or eighty persons present, including the
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 18: (search)
a charming creature, and if I were to fail to love her, I should be very ungrateful. A good many people come to see me, and I of course return their calls, but I have not time to tell you of them, still less to repeat, as I intended to do when I began this volume,. some of their good things . . . . July 10.—I am invited thrice to breakfast this morning, and although I am sorry to miss Dean Trench, and should have liked the company at Senior's, including Lesseps,—whose father I knew at Lisbon in 1818,—yet I rather think I am in luck in being first engaged to Lord Stanhope . . . . . The breakfast was first-rate in all points, company and talk. Lady Evelyn Stanhope was the first person I saw,—young, pretty, unmarried. . . . . The next was Tocqueville; . . . . then came the Lyells, Lord Aberdeen, and Lord Caernarvon, a young nobleman of great fortune and promise, who, a few years ago, carried off the first honors at Oxford. All talked French . . . . . This gave Tocqueville, of co
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
Federigo, I. 161 and note, 162, 164, 256, 450, II. 96, 103, 104, 107, 108, 109-113. Consalvi, Cardinal, I. 180. Constant, Benjamin, I. 131, 134, 138, 143, 145, 152. Constant, Madame, II. 355. Contrabandists, journey with, from Seville to Lisbon, I. 241, 243 note. Cooke, G. F., I. 53 note, 127, 473. Coolidge, T. Jefferson, II. 492. Coppet, visits, II. 36. Copleston, Mr., I. 405. Copyright, International, II. 278-280. Coquerel, Athanase, II. 131. Cordova, visits, I. 224ter, Lady T. Lewis, M. G., I. 67, 165. Leyser, General von, I. 465, 476, 486, 491. Lichtenstein, Professor, 1. 501. Lieven, Prince, I. 381. Lieven, Princess, II. 120. Lindenau, Baron von, L 457, 458, 460, 464, 476, 489, 491, II. 190. Lisbon, visits, I. 243, 250. Lister, Lady, Theresa, I. 407 and note, 418, II. 147. Literary honors received by G. T., II. 507. Lister, Thomas, I. 407 note, 418, II. 148. Litta, Marchese and Marchesa, II. 95, 96, 97. Litton, Mr., I 421.
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
ent on this affair. The Stonewall was truly an ugly antagonist. It is the opinion of many professional men that, properly handled, she could have sunk the two American vessels; and as far as probabilities were concerned, the chances might be said to he with the ram. It may, however, be seriously questioned whether operations which are based exclusively upon nice calculations of the risk to be run in engaging an enemy are likely to be fruitful of great results. The Stonewall proceeded to Lisbon, and thence to Havana, where she was surrendered to the United States by the Spanish Government, the war having terminated. She was subsequently sold to Japan. Among all the developments in naval warfare that were brought about between 1861 and 1865, the art of commerce-destroying, as systematized and applied by Semmes, will not be reckoned the least important. In saying this, it must be understood that reference is made, not to its ethical, but to its military aspect. As a mode of ca
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
the Commander of the Medn Squadron saying that about the first of Decr I will go to Spain and if he can have a vessel at Lisbon I will join him at that port about ten days later. If preferable to meet me at some Mediterranean port I would be glad tspondence with Adm.l Le Roy—who has taken Worden's place— in regard to the route. He advises against sending a vessel to Lisbon at this season of the year on account of the insufficiency of the Harbor for large vessels, making it necessary to anchoror of leniency which these letters contain. This of course did not prevent his making secret communications. Lisbon, Portugal, Oct. 27th, 1878. Dear Badeau,—Your letter of the 17th came to hand in Madrid where I was so busy that I did not sident once or twice again, but with little result. He once said that the Secretary of State had proposed the mission to Lisbon for me, but that he himself had declared he could not ask me to accept the post, as he had urged me to decline Copenhagen<
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Rotheram, D. D. (search)
u who are entering upon the world, what various schemes he formed for your benefit, or the prudence and resolution with which he carried them into execution. That his years were so few, that he was cut off in the prime of his life and usefulness, and in such an awful manner, are to us matter of unfeigned and bitter lamentation. But let us be silent, considering that God hath done it. Mr. Clark, it is believed, published nothing, except a sermon preached at Daventry, on the earthquake at Lisbon, Nov. 1, 1755. There are also one or two sermons of his in a publication entitled the Protestant System, by his brotherin-law, Dr. Rose. In 1763, he superintended the publication of the first edition of Doddridge's Lectures, Dr. John Aikin, first classical, and afterwards for many years theological, tutor in the academy at Warrington, well deserves commemoration, as the person to whom that institution owed, if not its chief celebrity, its highest claims to distinction as a seminary of
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