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James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Wordsworth. (search)
e with a marrow of nutritious moral to any shadow of the same on the flowing mirror of sense. Wordsworth never lets us long forget the deeply rooted stock from which he sprang,— vien ben da lui. William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth in Cumberland on the 7th of April, 1770, the second of five children. His father was John Wordsworth, an attorney-at-law, and agent of Sir James Lowther, afterwards first Earl of Lonsdale. His mother was Anne Cookson, the daughter of a mercer in Penrith. nd in Westmoreland. The Collectorship at White-haven (a more lucrative office) was afterwards offered to Wordsworth, and declined. He had enough for independence, and wished nothing more. Still later, on the death of the Stamp-Distributor for Cumberland, a part of that district was annexed to Westmoreland, and Wordsworth's income was raised to something more than £ 1,000 a year. In 1814 he made his second tour in Scotland, visiting Yarrow in company with the Ettrick Shepherd. During this y
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
r of the Blue Ridge national bank at Asheville, N. C., and Thomas C. is a commercial traveler. Dr. Lucas is a member of Camp Darlington, at Darlington, S. C. Major James Jonathan Lucas Major James Jonathan Lucas, of Society Hill, was born at Tiller's Ferry, Kershaw county, November 21, 1831. His father was Benjamin Simons Lucas, an eminent physician, born at Charleston in 1804 and educated in England. His grandfather and great-grandfather, both named Jonathan, were natives of Cumberland, England, who came to Charleston soon after the Revolution. The senior Jonathan Lucas invented and introduced the first rice mills, in 1787, and, associated with his son, was the pioneer in their construction. In 1823 the junior Jonathan Lucas built a rice mill in London, by which he amassed a large fortune. Major Lucas was graduated at the South Carolina military academy in 1851, and during the subsequent decade was engaged in business at Charleston. He was elected to the legislature by t
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