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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 14 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
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Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 4 0 Browse Search
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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 2 0 Browse Search
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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Rotheram, D. D. (search)
ather chose to lead them to an acquaintance with such as might not otherwise be likely to fall in their way; and of these he preferred those which bore some relation to the leading objects of their other studies. In history, for instance, he chose such portions of Herodotus as might illustrate those parts of the Old Testament which were connected with Assyria and Egypt; the fine funeral orations of Thucydides, Plato, and Lysias; the philosophical and ethical treatises of Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Marcus Antoninus, and Maximus Tyrius, with Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric, and Longinus. When there were several young men designed for the law, he more than once read with them Justinian's Institutes. In reading the ancient poets, his extensive acquaintance with modern poetry enabled him to enliven his lectures with parallel passages; and his fine taste led him to dwell with peculiar delight on those passages of either ancient or modern poets which appeared most striking for noble se