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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address on the character of General R. E. Lee, delivered in Richmond on Wednesday, January 19th, 1876, the anniversary of General Lee's birth (search)
or looked that future fame to win. You are not come to hear of my small hopes or fears. Yet, to you and to the gravity of the occasion, it is due to say that I appear before you on sudden order, to my sense of duty hardly less imperative than those famous commands under which we have so often marched at early dawn. By telegraph, on last Saturday night, this duty was laid upon me, and I come with little of preparation, and less of ability, to attempt a theme that might task the powers of Bossuet or exhaust an Everett's rhetoric. It can scarcely be needful to rehearse before you the facts of our commander's life. They have become, from least to greatest, parts of history, and an ever-growing number of books record that he was born in 1807, at Stratford, in Westmoreland county, of a family ancient and honorable in the mother country, in the Old Dominion, and in the State of Virginia; that he was appointed a cadet at the United States Military Academy in 1825, and was graduated fi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gibbon, Edward 1737- (search)
Gibbon, Edward 1737- Historian; born in Putney, Surrey, England, April 27, 1737; was from infancy feeble in physical constitution. His first serious attempt at authorship was when he was only a youth—a treatise on the age of Sesostris. He was fond of Oriental research. Reading Bossuet's Variations of Protestantism and Exposition of Catholic doctrine, he became a Roman Catholic, and at length a free-thinker. He was a student at Oxford when he abjured Protestantism, and was expelled. He read with avidity the Latin, Greek, and French classics, and became passionately fond of historical research. He also studied practically the military art, as a member of the Hampshire militia, with his father. In 1751 he published a defence of classical studies against the attacks of the French philosophers. In 1764 he went to Rome, and studied its antiquities with delight and seriousness, and there he conceived the idea of writing his great work, The decline and fall of the Roman Empire. I
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Le Moine, Sauvolle 1671-1701 (search)
Le Moine, Sauvolle 1671-1701 Royal governor; born in Montreal in 1671; accompanied the brothers Iberville and Bienville in their expedition to the mouth of the Mississippi River, and was appointed the first governor of Louisiana in 1699. He was of feeble constitution; possessed brilliant talents, a remarkably fine personal appearance, and a large fortune. Racine pronounced him a poet; Bossuet predicted that he would become a great orator; and Villars called him a marshal in embryo. These promises were unfulfilled. He died in Biloxi, Miss., July 22, 1701.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
ng a stop-valve, this accumulated pressure is at once allowed to act on the ram and compress the spring to be tested. The ram is retracted by counterbalance weights when the pressure is removed. Hy-drau′lic Tele-graph. A mode of communication by means of a column of liquid in a pipe, which is caused to move so as to actuate a hand, or by different levels to indicate messages or letters on a graduated or written scale against the fluctuating column. The plan was tried in France by Bossuet over a century since, with a pipe about three miles long. Vallance's hydraulic telegraph was described by the inventor in a pamphlet in 1825. Hy-drau′lic valve. （Pneumatics.) An inverted cup which is lowered over the upturned open end of a pipe, the edge of the cup being submerged in water and closing the pipe against the passage of air. The hydraulic valve of the gasworks governs the communication between the gas-holder and the main. When the valve is raised the communicatio<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
16. Took train for Paris, and arrived at my old lodgings at six o'clock; in the evening saw my friends, Hamilton Fish and family, just arrived from New York. August 17. Visited M. Vattemare, also the Genevieve Library, which is open to the public; dined with the Fishes at the table d'hote of Meurice's Hotel. The summary of Sumner's diary for the month is as follows: Leaving Paris August 19, he stopped a few hours at Meaux, where he visited the cathedral, the palace, and the garden of Bossuet; passed one night at Rheims, another at Strasburg, and a day at Baden-Baden, where Mr. C. A. Bristed of New York, then renting a villa near the town, drove him in the neighborhood, and up to the Alte Schloss. Next he went to Basle, Berne, Thun, Interlachen, the Lake of Brienz, the Brunig Pass, Alpnach, and to Lucerne, where he met his old friend Theodore S. Fay, whom he had been disappointed in not finding at Berne, and the two recalled earlier days in long conversations. Then, after a da
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Mademoiselle's campaigns. (search)
of the Grand Monarque,--that sovereign whom his priests in their liturgy styled the chief work of the Divine hands, and of whom Mazarin said, more truthfully, that there was material enough in him for four kings and one honest man. The Moi-meme of his boyish resolution became the Laetat, c'est moi of his maturer egotism; Spain yielded to France the mastery of the land, as she had already yielded to Holland and England the sea; Turenne fell at Sassbach, Conde sheathed his sword at Chantilly; Bossuet and Bourdaloue, preaching the funeral sermons of these heroes, praised their glories, and forgot, as preachers will, their sins; Vatel committed suicide because His Majesty had not fish enough for breakfast; the Princesse Palatine died in a convent, and the Princesse Conde in a prison; the fair Sevigne chose the better part, and the fairer Montespan the worse; the lovely La Valliere walked through sin to saintliness, and poor Marie de Mancini through saintliness to sin; Voiture and Benserad
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Orations at the unveiling of the statue of Stonewall Jackson, Richmond, Va., October 26th, 1875. (search)
oge, D. D. Were I permitted at this moment to consult my own wishes, I would bid the thunder of the cannon and the acclamations of the people announce the unveiling of the statue; and then, when with hearts beating with commingled emotions of love and grief and admiration, we had contemplated this last and noblest creation of the great sculptor, the ceremonies of this august hour should end. In attempting to commence my oration, I am forcibly reminded of the faltering words with which Bossuet began his splendid eulogy on the Prince of Conde. Said he: At the moment I open my lips to celebrate the immortal glory of the Prince of Conde I find myself equally overwhelmed by the greatness of the theme and the needlessness of the task. What part of the habitable world has not heard of his victories and the wonders of his life? Everywhere they are rehearsed. His own countrymen in extolling them can give no information even to the stranger. And although I may remind you of them, yet
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Historical papers (search)
r since made it the occasion of reproach and persecution of an entire sect of professing Christians, may be no longer perpetuated. In the matter of exclusiveness and intolerance, none of the older sects can safely reproach each other; and it becomes all to hope and labor for the coming of that day when the hymns of Cowper and the Confessions of Augustine, the humane philosophy of Channing and the devout meditations of Thomas à Kempis, the simple essays of Woolman and the glowing periods of Bossuet, shall be regarded as the offspring of one spirit and one faith,–lights of a common altar, and precious stones in the temple of the one universal Church. The boy captives An incident of the Indian war of 1695. The township of Haverhill, even as late as the close of the seventeenth century, was a frontier settlement, occupying an advanced position in the great wilderness, which, unbroken by the clearing of a white man, extended from the Merrimac River to the French villages on the S
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
in its pretensions and vindictive in its menaces, was, after great opposition in parliament, Strype's Memorials, i. 352. enacted for abolishing diversity of opinions. 31 Henry VIII., c. XIV. Statutes III. 739—743. Lingard, VI. 380—386. Bossuet, Hist des Variations, 1. VII. c. XXIV.—XL. Henry, XII. 84. 1539 All the Roman Catholic doctrines were asserted, except the supremacy of Rome. The pope could praise Henry VIII. for orthodoxy, while he excommunicated him for disobedience. Hg the Scriptures, and limited the privilege to merchants and nobles. He always adhered to his old religion; Ibid. II. 352. he believed its most extravagant doctrines to the last, and died in the Roman, rather than in the Protestant faith. Bossuet, Hist. des Variations, i. VIII. c. III. IV. and XXIV.—XL. Henry's Great Britain, XII p. 107. But the awakening intelligence of a great nation could not be terrified into a passive lethargy. The environs of the court displayed no resistance
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
The inference that there is progress in human affairs, is also warranted. The trust of our race has ever been in the coming of better times. Universal history does out seek to relate the sum of all God's works of prov- Chap. XXIV.} idence. In America, the first conception of its office, in the mind of Jonathan Edwards, though still cramped 1739 and perverted by theological forms not derived from observation, was nobler than the theory of Vico: more grand and general than the method of Bossuet, it embraced in its outline the whole work of redemption, —the history of the influence of all moral truth in the gradual regeneration of humanity. The meek New England divine, in his quiet association with the innocence and simplicity of rural life, knew that, in every succession of revolutions, the cause of civilization and moral reform is advanced. The new creation— Works of Edwards, II. 377 and 382 such are his words—is more excellent than the old. So it ever is, that when one thing <
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