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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 72 72 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
eaf. Few recall his method as a teacher; and while he did not leave a strong impression of any kind on the students, he appears to have realized a fair measure of success for so young a lawyer. Early in 1835, Story's Life and Letters, Vol. II. p. 194. Judge Story appointed him as the reporter of his opinions in the Circuit Court. His first volume (filled with cases decided in the time of the preceding reporter, Mason) was published in March, 1836, the second in 1837, and the third in 1841. In 1835, he assisted Professor Greenleaf in preparing the General Digest of his Reports of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Maine, which is a part of Vol. IX. of the series. In 1835-36, he prepared the indexes to the two volumes of Story's Equity Jurisprudence. Some literary work planned in 1835 was not executed,--a condensed series of English Parliamentary Cases, to be prepared by him in connection with Professor Greenleaf, and a similar series of the English Chancery Reports, a
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 11: Paris.—its schools.—January and February, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
in the part of Henriette; and the evening was a feast. I had previously prepared myself by reading the play, and I also carried a copy with me, by means of which I followed the actors easily through the whole of this brilliant production. Mars 1779-1847. Her first success, which was at the beginning of this century, was achieved in the personation of a deaf and dumb girl in the Abbe de la Épee. She was for thirty years without a rival on the French stage in genteel comedy, and retired in 1841. Her favorite plays were those of Moliere. is now nearly sixty, and yet she had the appearance of thirty. Her voice was clear as silver and exquisitely modulated, and her movement on the stage thoroughly graceful. I have seen no performance, by any actor, which was so eminently pretty and graceful as that of this evening by Mars: the part did not call out those stronger traits which she is said to possess. The poetry of Moliere fell from her lips with honeyed accents, and all the players
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 12: Paris.—Society and the courts.—March to May, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
ur-General and of the counsel in defence were shorter than with us, and the charge of the judge much shorter and less elaborate. In the evening went to the grand Opera Francais, and saw the splendid ballet-pantomime of Le Diable Boiteux, and the dancing of Fanny Elssler. Fanny Elssler (sister of Therese, who was born in 1808) was born in Vienna in 1811. She won great applause as a dancer in European cities, appearing in Paris in 1834. She, with her sister, visited the United States in 1841. She took leave of the stage in 1851, and has since resided at her villa near Hamburg. I did not think before that scenery and spectacle could be carried so far as they were in this piece. April 3. Again at the Palais de Justice and in the Cour d'assises; feel more and more interested in the administration of justice here. April 4. At the Cour d'assises. Have now heard many cases; am much pleased with the French penal code in many particulars,—its definitions of crimes are much more
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
by Lord Melbourne as Prime-Minister; afterwards, in 1841, he succeeded Lord Melbourne. made a beautiful speecera in 1829; Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1834-35 and 1841-46; and, in 1852, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, iberal measures. He married for his second wife, in 1841, a daughter of John Marshall of Hallsteads. In 1857845. He was elected to Parliament in 1835, 1837, and 1841; was Solicitor-General, 1834-35, under Sir Robert Peel, and again in 1841, and became Attorney-General in 1841. Miss Martineau said of him that he wanted only he1841. Miss Martineau said of him that he wanted only health to have raised him to the highest legal and political honors,—History of England, Book VI. ch. XVI. Lorda judge of the King's Bench in 1824, and resigned in 1841. His distinction is confined to the law. Sumner dinon, 1782-1873. He served in Parliament from 1817 to 1841, advocated the abolition of slavery and the slave-trllor of Ireland, with a brief interval, from 1830 to 1841. He opposed in the Irish Parliament the union with
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
and then went to England to study for the bar. He joined John Stuart Mill's Utilitarian Society, and was an early writer for the Westminster Review. Autobiography of Mill, pp. 81, 96. He represented Bath in Parliament from 1832 to 1837, and from 1841 to 1847; and Sheffield from 1849 to 1869; and, after a defeat in 1869, was chosen again for Sheffield in 1874. He is the author of a book on The Colonies of England, and a History of the Whig Ministry of 1830, and has contributed to the Edinburgh fury by a raging storm. Think of this picture: the white sea I am well accustomed to; but these reverend arches, the sturdy and graceful witnesses of centuries, I know much less about. I am the guest of Mr. Ingham, Robert Ingham, M. P., 1832-1841 and 1852-1868, for South Shields near Westoe, where he was born and died. He was educated at Oxford, and in 1820 joined the Northern Circuit. He was not eminent at the bar or in Parliament, but he was a man of sterling worth and attractive perso