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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
nd Lady Morley, fine old people of the best school of English character; the beautiful and unpretending Lady James Graham;. . . . Senior, the political economist; Babbage, the inventor of the great calculating machine, etc. . . . . We went at ten and came home at midnight, having enjoyed ourselves a good deal; for they were all, as far as I talked with them, highly cultivated, intellectual people. July 12—. . . . . . From church we went, by his especial invitation, to see Babbage's calculating machine; and I must say, that during an explanation which lasted between two and three hours, given by himself with great spirit, the wonder at its incomprehensibleesident of the last year, Lord Cloncurry, Lord Clare, Sir Alexander Creighton, Professor Robinson, Professor Hamilton, old Mr. Dalton of Manchester, Thomas Moore, Babbage, a Norwegian nobleman, a French baron, Whewell, Phillips, Prichard, the three aids, two or three other persons, and myself. When the company was assembled, Lor
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22: (search)
most extraordinary mathematicians alive, of whom all the rest speak with the greatest kindness and admiration. The hour we passed with her would yet have informed us of nothing of all this, except that she is a most gentle, quiet, and kind-hearted person. When we were obliged to come away, they said so much about our visiting them again, that we promised to dine with them on Wednesday, the day but one before we should leave London, without company. We went, therefore, and found only Mr. Babbage, so that we had as agreeable a dinner as we well could have, talking upon all sorts of subjects until very late, with great vivacity. . . . . English kindness was uniform and consistent to the last, but I do not recollect anything worth noting except a visit to Wilkie, the painter, at Kensington, to which he invited me at Dublin. I found him living very comfortably, but very much like an artist. With great good-nature and a strong desire to please, not unmixed with Scotch shrewdness,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
n, Dr., 274, 275, 280. Anglona, Prince of, 207. Anhalt-Dessau, Duchess of, 479 and note. Anthology Club, G. T. member of, 9. Aranjuez, 195, 220-222. Arconati, Madame, 450, 451. Arconati, Marquis, 450-452. Arnheim, Baroness von (Bettina), 500. Arrivabene, Count, Giovanni, 450, 451. Astor, W. B., 26, 178. Athenaeum, Boston, 8, 12, 370, 371, 379 and note. Atterson, Miss, 109. Auckland, Lord (First), 264. Austin, Mrs., Sarah, 411, 413, 500. Azzelini, 176. B Babbage, Charles, 407, 422. Bachi, Pietro, 368 note. Bagot, Sir Charles and Lady Mary, 295 and note. Baillie, Miss, Joanna, 413, 414, 479. Bainbridge, Commodore, 373. Baird, Sir, David, 412, 413. Balbo, Count, Cesare, 210, 212, 213, 306, 307; letters from, 307, 309. Balbo, Countess, 209. Balbo, Count, Prospero, 209, 210, 308. Balhorn, Herr, 85. Baltimore, visits, 41, 349, 351. Bancroft, Hon., George, 385. Banks, Sir, Joseph, 258 note, 263, 294. Barante, Baron de, 137, 138, 256. B