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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 1: childhood (search)
Day, even in their own houses. Not only was this petition not granted, but the petitioners were threatened with loss of rights as freemen unless they withdrew their names. Sixteen refused to withdraw them, of whom two, Thomas Whittier and Christopher Hussey, were ancestors of the poet, as was one of the prohibited exhorters, Joseph Peasley. These were temporarily disfranchised, but the name of Thomas Whittier often appears with honour in the town records, even to mentioning the fact that whenernal grandmother, Sarah Greenleaf, about whom he wrote a ballad, and about whose name — translated, as is supposed, from the French Feuillevert — he has written the poem, A name. He was also descended through his maternal grandmother from Christopher Hussey, who had married a daughter of the Rev. Stephen Bachiler, a man of distinguished appearance and character, whose reputation was clouded for two centuries by charges made in his own day, but which now seem to have been dispelled by his desc
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 2: school days and early ventures (search)
their eager enthusiasm; there were great problems to be solved, boundless fields of knowledge to explore, a heaven to believe in, and neighbours to do good to. Life was very full. Whittier's home was exceptionally charming on account of the character of its inmates. His father, a sensible and estimable man, died before I knew the home. His mother was serene, dignified, benevolent — a woman of good judgment, fond of reading the best books — a woman to honour and revere. His aunt, Mercy Hussey, who lived with them, was an incarnation of gracefulness and graciousness, of refinement and playfulness, an ideal lady. His sister Elizabeth, the youngest and the dearest, shared his poetic gifts, and was a sweet rare person, devoted to her family and friends, kind to every one, full of love for all beautiful things, and so merry, when in good health, that her companionship was always exhilarating. I cannot imagine her doing a wrong thing or having an unworthy thought. She was deeply re
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
116. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 126; Whittier's letters to, 44, 45, 87, 96-98. Hoar, Hon. G. F., 181. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 2, 37, 104, 130, 141, 151, 178; his The Autocrat of the breakfast table, mentioned, 150; his The Chambered Nautilus, mentioned, 150,163; Whittier's summary of qualities of, 178, 179. Hotel Brunswick, Boston, dinner at, 176. Houghton, H. O., 177. Howard, John, 33. Howe, Mrs., Julia Ward, 82. D., 178; his Hazard of New Fortunes, mentioned, 86. Hussey, Christopher, 5. Hussey, Mercy, 10, 31. Hutchinson, Mrs., Anne, 84. Hutchinsons, the, 185. I. Indians, American, 4, 36, 98. Intervale, N. H., 179. Ipswich, Mass., 85. Irving, Washington, 35, 37. Isles of Shoals, 127, 179. Italy, 166, 167. J. Jackson, Mrs., Helen, her Spoken, mentioned, 163. James II., 6. Jefferson, Thomas, 69. Johnson, Oliver, his William Lloyd Garrison and his Times, mentioned, 72; introduction to, quoted, 73-75. Johnson, Samuel 162. Johnson,