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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 27: the antidote to money (search)
nsure. In what respect does all this differ from the methods of Tammany? There is nothing new about it; in the Greville Journals (July 2, 1826) the writer reports: A batch of peers has been made; everybody cries out against Charles Ellis's peerage (Lord Seaford); he has no property and is of no family.... However, it is thought very ridiculous. But it is evident that it was only the want of wealth that made it ridiculous; and yet this appointment was made by Canning. Perhaps Tweed and Croker managed it better in their own way, for they appointed men, not because they were already rich, but that they might become so. In either case, after the thing was done, who cared for its being thought ridiculous? Certainly not the Englishman, for he obtained by it far more than any American could give or receive. Mere money perishes with the spending and may not found a family, but the owner of a peerage bought with money cannot help founding a family, except by remaining childless. A pee
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 24: (search)
her I take less than I used to, to the classical fashions. On the whole, I think not, though I sometimes suspect it; I should be sorry, in my old age, to become disloyal, and don't mean to. I looked, an hour or two ago, into Boswell's Johnson, and bethought me that you are the Secretary of Johnson's old club. Pray tell me what sort of records have been kept of its meetings, and what sort you keep? Has anything more satisfactory been published about it than is to be found in Vol. I. of Croker? How many of you are there now? How often do you meet? How many, on an average, come together, and what sort of times do you have? I have looked over Wornum's Life of Holbein, as you counselled. But I find it very hard reading, so ill is it written. Still, it contains a great many new facts, and much careful investigation. I hope he will not make out a case against the Dresden Madonna, for it is surely a magnificent picture, and should not be slightly dispossessed of its prescripti
The Daily Dispatch: June 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
nt was in the advance and drove the enemy before them for a mile and a half, capturing their camps, with large supplies and valuable property, when they were met by large bodies of Federals, entrenched with massed batteries. It was in Charging these batteries, twice, that the chief loss was sustained." Company A.--Killed: None. Wounded: Lieut Smith, contusion; Privates King, severely; Wm Glesson. do; H Dempsy, slightly; J R Blakley, do; J W Coletrim, do.--Missing: Privates J Lehey, R Croker. Company B.--Wounded: Sergt Leathers, slightly; Privates John W. McFarland, severely; Wm G Ray, slightly; W U Roberts, do; Wm Latta, do; Jas Moore, severely, left on the field. Missing: Privates H S Harris, Wm Glann. Company C.--Wounded: Capt W J Freeland, severely and missing; Corp'l W Woods, mortally and left on field; Privates S Haichens, severely and left on field; W T Gresham, slightly; W J Laycock, slightly; E N Blalock, mortally; J F Hall, severely; H Vickers, slightly. M