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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, III: the boy student (search)
nd how great a social stumbling-block was the youth's early diffidence. Improvement soon began, as the next year he wrote,—-- Went at 9 P. M. to a party. Had a decent time. Splendid ice-cream. The following extracts are taken from his freshman journal, showing what an intimate relation existed in those simple days between President and student:— President Quincy was present at our Livy recitation. Lucky. I never recited better.—President Q. was present at our recitation in Herodotus. Got along decently.—Went to President to get my marks. He wants me to behave well, so he says at least.—Deaded in Geometry for the first time. —Cut both recitations for amusement. Spent some time in the library [a favorite place of refuge]. On his fourteenth birthday, December 22, 1837, he found that he was the youngest undergraduate. Two months later his journal records some of the lively scenes then witnessed at prayer-time:— Many of the class having become slightl
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 5: year after College.—September, 1830, to September, 1831.—Age, 19-20. (search)
ever able to compass. My reflection calls up such a multitude of books unread, that I am lost,—like Spenser's Una and the Redcrosse Knight,— So many pathes, so many turnings seene, That which of them to take, in diverse doubt they been. The Faerie Queene. I wish to read the principal classics, particularly Latin ones. I fear I shall never reach the Greek. I have thought of Thucydides, the hardest but completest historian. I shall not touch him probably. Tell me your experiences of Herodotus. . . . From your true friend, C. S. To Jonathan F. Stearns, Bedford, Mass. Sunday eve, Aug. 7, 1831. my friend, my old College Fiend,—. . . You ask if I hold fast to Anti-masonry? When I do not, pronounce me a recreant. I hold fast to it through some ridicule, and, I dare say, slurs upon my sense. Truth has ever been reviled when she first appeared, whether as the bearer of a glorious system of religion, or of the laws which govern this universe. Time is her great friend. I <
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)
ne of the most distinguished of their professors (M. Bravard, Professor of Commercial Law) made a confession to me, similar to what I have stated above. The manner of lecturing in the departments of belles-lettres and of philosophy is similar to that I have already described. The most eminent men, —Biot, whose works are used at Cambridge, and Baron Poisson,—take the chalk and sponge and stand for an hour at the blackboard; and other eminent professors expound a section of Sallust or of Herodotus to perhaps a dozen young men, who, with the classics in their hands, sit round a table of the size of those in our rooms at Cambridge. And yet these manipulations at the blackboard, and these familiar expositions of a classic (often made at eight o'clock of the morning), are called lectures. You will see, therefore, that you were never wrong in styling the exercises at the law school lectures: according to the vocabulary in use here, they are such without doubt. I have much to say with r
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 24: Slavery and the law of nations.—1842.—Age, 31. (search)
arles Sumner. To Professor Mittermaier, Heidelberg. Boston, Aug. 4, 1842. my dear friend,—I am ashamed that I have left your kind letter of Feb. 8 for so long a time without acknowledgment; but various calls have absorbed my time, and I now write in haste in order to introduce to you my friend, Mr. Wheeler, Charles S. Wheeler, who died at Leipsic, in 1843, at the age of twenty-six. who has been for some time a tutor in Harvard University. He has published a valuable edition of Herodotus, and has otherwise made himself very favorably known to the scholars of my country. He hopes to pass several months in delightful Heidelberg; and I wish to commend him to your kind attentions during his stay. I send you two copies of the sixteenth report of the Prison Discipline Society; also two copies of Dr. Howe's Report on the Blind, embracing the account of Laura Bridgman, the wonderful child, who can neither see nor hear nor speak; also a pamphlet on a proposed change in the veto p
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A plea for culture. (search)
to have mature convictions before he is fourteen. In the height of the last Presidential contest, a little boy was hung out of a school window by his heels, within my knowledge, because his small comrades disapproved his political sentiments. For higher intellectual pursuits there are not only no such penalties among us, but there are no such opportunities. Yet in Athens — with its twenty thousand statues, with the tragedies of Aeschylus performed for civic prizes, and the histories of Herodotus read at the public games — a boy could no more grow up ignorant of art than he could here remain untrained in politics. When we are once convinced that this higher training is desirable, we shall begin to feel the worth of our accumulated wealth. That is true of wealth which Talleyrand said of wisdom,--everybody is richer than anybody. The richest man in the world cannot afford the parks, the edifices, the galleries, the libraries, that this community can have for itself, whenever it c
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Sappho. (search)
: one being Larichus, whom she praises for his graceful demeanor as cup-bearer in the public banquets,--an office which belonged only to beautiful youths of noble birth; the other was Charaxus, whom Sappho had occasion to reproach, according to Herodotus, 2.135. for buying and marrying a slave of disreputable antecedents. Of the actual events of Sappho's life almost nothing is known, except that she once had to flee for safety from Lesbos to Sicily, perhaps to escape the political persecdmit the culture and the women also. Nowhere else in Greece did women occupy what we should call a modern position. The attempt was premature, and the reputation of Lesbos was crushed in the process. Among the Ionians of Asia, according to Herodotus, the wife did not share the table of her husband; she dared not call him by his name, but addressed him with the title of Lord ; and this was hardly an exaggeration of the social habits of Athens itself. But among the Dorians of Sparta, and pr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 17 (search)
and regularity of life went beyond those of any man I have known. Working chiefly at home, he assigned in advance a certain number of hours daily as due to the firm for which he labored; and he then kept carefully the record of these hours, and if he took out a half hour for his own private work, made it up. He had special work assigned by himself for a certain time before breakfast, an interval which he daily gave largely to the Greek Testament and at some periods to Homer, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Xenophon; working always with the original at hand and writing out translations or commentaries, always in the same exquisite handwriting and at first contained in small thin note-books, afterwards bound in substantial volumes, with morocco binding and proper lettering. All his writings were thus handsomely treated, and the shelves devoted to his own works, pamphlet or otherwise, were to the eye a very conservatory and flower garden of literature; or like a chamberful of children to
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 2: a Roman winter--1878-1879; aet. 59-60 (search)
e's palaces. Did not get home much before four in the morning. In the afternoon had visited the mosque of Sultan Abdul Hassan.... After Cairo came a trip up the Nile, with all its glories and discomforts. Between marvel and marvel she read Herodotus and Mariette Bey assiduously. Christmas Day. Cool wind. Native reis of the boat has a brown woollen capote over his blue cotton gown, the hood drawn over his turban. A Christmas service. Rev. Mr. Stovin, English, read the lessons for the by me! This is too much to hope, but not too much to pray for. And I determine this year to pass no day without actual prayer, the want of which I have felt during the year just past. Busy all day, writing, washing handkerchiefs, and reading Herodotus. On January 2, she visited Blind School with General Stone-Osny Effendi, Principal. Many trades and handicrafts — straw matting, boys — boys and girls weaving at hand loom — girls spinning wool and flax, crochet and knitting — a lesson in
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Index (search)
P. A., II, 25. Healy, Mrs. G. P. A., II, 25, 26. Hedge, Frederick, I, 207, 236, 290, 346, 347; II, 139, 206, 236, 347. Hegel, G. W. F., I, 196, 197, 240, 249. Heidelberg, II, 174. Helbig, Mme., II, 239, 249. Hemenway, Mary, II, 193. Henderson, L. J., II, 294, 298. Henschel, Georg, II, 71. Heredity, influence of, I, 3, 14. Herford, Brooke, II, 127, 170. Herford, Mrs., Brooke, II, 165, 170. Herkomer, Hubert, II, 165, 171. Herlihy, Dan, II, 322, 323. Herodotus, II, 36, 37. Heron, Matilda, I, 143, 144. Heywood, J. C., II, 244, 245. Heywood, Mrs. J. C., II, 244. Higginson, T. W., I, 227, 286, 362, 364, 365; II, 48, 49, 60, 81, 88, 187, 259, 271-274, 302, 320, 335-37, 346, 354-56, 366, 387, 400. Verse by, 335. Higher education of women, I, 361, 362; II, 21. Hill, Arthur D., II, 406. Hill, Thomas, II, 326. Hillard, George, I, 71, 74, 120, 128, 151. Hippolytus, I, 203, 204, 205; II, 345. Hoar, G. F., II, 109, 210, 219,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country, Water-Lilies (search)
and the god Nilus still binds a wreath of waterlilies around the throne of Memnon. From Egypt the Lotus was carried to Assyria, and Layard found it among fir-cones and honeysuckles on the later sculptures of Nineveh. The Greeks dedicated it to the nymphs, whence the name Nymphaea. Nor did the Romans disregard it, though the Lotus to which Ovid's nymph Lotis was changed, servato nomine, was a tree, and not a flower. Still different a thing was the enchanted stem of the Lotus-caters of Herodotus, which prosaic botanists have reduced to the Zizyphus Lotus found by Mungo Park, translating also the yellow Lotus-dust into a mere farina, tasting like sweet gingerbread. But in the Lotus of Hindostan we find our flower again, and the Oriental sacred books are cool with water-lilies. Open the Vishnu Purana at any page, and it is a Sortes Lilianae. The orb of the earth is Lotus-shaped, and is upborne by the tusks of Vesava, as if he had been sporting in a lake where the leaves and blos
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