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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 19: (search)
. there is a good park, fine gardens and hot-houses, and a mansion which they are at this moment furnishing and fitting anew. But everything is comfortable, and the cuisine, with some other parts of the establishment, luxurious. Cardwell carried off all the honors at Oxford in his time; is still an excellent scholar; was five years a barrister, and then entered Parliament, became soon Secretary of the Treasury and President of the Board of Trade, which brought him into the cabinet of Sir Robert Peel, who left him one of his literary executors. He has an abundance of capital anecdotes, which he tells in a most agreeable manner, and makes his house as pleasant as possible to his guests. Immediately after breakfast all seven of the party set off for the exhibition in Manchester. In the vestibule of the immense and well-proportioned building,— while the ladies were giving up their parasols and taking numbers for them,—a stout man, with the air of a police officer, leaned over the ba
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
I. 50, 52, 53, 288, 289. Parsons, Chief Justice, I. 396. Parsons, Theophilus, II. 452. Parsons, William, I. 331, 332. Pasquier, Chancellor, Due, II. 134. Pastoret, Count (Marquis), I. 253, 255, 256. Pastoret, Countess (Marquise), T. 255, 256, II. 118 and note, 119, 128, 134, 139. Patin, Professor, II. 130. Patterson, Mr., 1.193 note. Pauli, Dr., II. 328. Peabody, Rev. W. O. B., T 428 and note. Peacock, Professor, II. 156, 158. Peel, Frederic, II. 323. Peel, Sir, Robert, I. 416, 417, 480; death of, II. 268. Pelet de la Lozere, Ti. 131. Pellico, Silvio, I. 450, II. 38, 39, 40, 41. Pennsylvania, visits, II. 221, 222. Pentland, Mr., Ti. 346. Pepperell, I. 337, 385. Percival, Mr., it. 394, 395. Perkins, Colonel T II., I. 328, 370. Perkins, James, T. 370. Perkins, Mrs. S. G., 1.13, 49, 68, 260, 328, 331. Perkins, S. G., I. 12, 13, 14, 49, 68. Perkins, S. II., T. 68 and note, 121. Pertz, Dr., II. 313 and note, 332, 358, 359, 365.
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Wordsworth. (search)
s his fame was increasing slowly but steadily, and his age gathered to itself the reverence and the troops of friends which his poems and the nobly simple life reflected in them deserved. Public honors followed private appreciation. In 1838 the University of Dublin conferred upon him the degree of D. C. L. In 1839 Oxford did the same, and the reception of the poet (now in his seventieth year) at the University was enthusiastic. In 1842 he resigned his office of StampDis-tributor, and Sir Robert Peel had the honor of putting him upon the civil list for a pension of £ 300. In 1843 he was appointed Laureate, with the express understanding that it was a tribute of respect, involving no duties except such as might be self-imposed. His only official production was an Ode for the installation of Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. His life was prolonged yet seven years, almost, it should seem, that he might receive that honor which he had truly conquered for him
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Historical papers (search)
speech on the motion of Thomas Fowell Buxton for the immediate emancipation of the slaves gave a new tone to the discussion of the question. He entered into no petty pecuniary details; no miserable computation of the shillings and pence vested in beings fashioned in the image of God. He did not talk of the expediency of continuing the evil because it had grown monstrous. To use his own words, he considered slavery a crime to be abolished; not merely an evil to be palliated. He left Sir Robert Peel and the Tories to eulogize the characters and defend the interests of the planters, in common with those of a tithe-reaping priesthood, building their houses by oppression and their chambers by wrong, and spoke of the negro's interest, the negro's claim to justice; demanding sympathy for the plundered as well as the plunderers, for the slave as well as his master. He trampled as dust under his feet the blasphemy that obedience to the law of eternal justice is a principle to be acknowl
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 26: (search)
f that aristocracy the king should sustain the liberties of the people, owned Lord Shelburne as their standard-bearer. In point of years, experience, philosophic culture, and superiority to ambition as a passion, he was their fittest Chap. XXVI.} 1782. March. leader, though he had never enjoyed the intimate friendship of their departed chief. It was he who reconciled George the Third to the lessons of Adam Smith, and recommended them to the younger Pitt, through whom they passed to Sir Robert Peel; but his habits of study, and his want of skill in parliamentary tactics, had kept him from political connections as well as from political intrigues. His respect for the monarchical element in the British constitution invited the slander, that he was only a counterfeit liberal, at heart devoted to the king; but in truth he was very sincere. His reputation has comparatively suffered with posterity, for no party has taken charge of his fame. Moreover, being more liberal than his age,
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Canada's mails. (search)
ent could not give any further information pending negotiations now in progress. The Duke of Newcastle, in reply to Lord Derby, said the Legislature of British Guiana had been instructed to consider the bill sanctioning the extradition of prisoners escaping from the French colony of Cayenne, but political offenders were to be carefully excluded from the operation of the measure. In the House of Commons on the 7th an interesting debate took place on Italian affairs. Edwin James, Sir Robt. Peel, Gladstone, and Lord John Russell, defended the policy of England, the King of Sardinia and Garibaldi, while several Irish members took the opposite side, and Mr. Roebuck made a pro-Austrian speech. The Parliamentary Committee on the Red Sea Telegraph have agreed to confirm the unconditional guarantee of the Government. The London Times, in reviewing Jefferson Davis' inaugural speech, says it has never read a public document so difficult to analyze and interpret. France.
The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], Highly important opinion. (search)
Morbid nervousness. --The morbid nervousness of the present day appears in several ways. It brings a man sometimes to that startled state, that the sudden opening of a door, the clash of the falling fire-irons, or any little accident, puts him in a flutter. How nervous the late Sir Robert Peel must have been when, a few weeks before his death, he went to the Zoological Gardens, and when a monkey suddenly sprang upon his arm, the great and worthy man fainted! Another phase of nervousness is, when a man is brought to that state that the least noise or cross-occurrence seems to jar through the entire nervous system — to upset him, as we say, when he cannot command his mental powers, except in perfect stillness, or in the chamber and at the writing table to which he is accustomed; when, in short, he gets fidgety, easily worried, full of whims and fancies, which must be indulged and considered, or he is quite out of sorts. Another phase of the same morbid condition is, when a hum
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of the Chancellor of England. (search)
as made Lord Chancellor of Ireland, on the resignation of Lord Plunket, and with it received a peerage, with the title Lord Campbell of St. Andrews, County Fife, Scotland. His party — the Whigs — going out of power the same year, he devoted himself to literary labors, having resigned his Chancellorship in September. It was during the period that elapsed until 1846 that he prepared a considerable portion of his "Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal." In 1846,when Sir Robert Peel came into power, Lord Campbell was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and in 1850 became the successor of Lord Denmen, as Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. When Palmerston succeeded the Derby Ministry, Lord Campbell was, at length, made Lord High Chancellor of the Realm, and held that exalted office with great distinction until the day of his death, having then passed the ripe old age of eighty years. He died full of honors, leaving a proud title and a n
The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The death of Lord Herbert. (search)
idney Herbert, (whose death is announced by the Persia,) the second son of the Earl of Pembroke and the Countess of Woronzow, was born in 1810. At the age of 22 he entered the House of Commons as a conservative; he was a devoted follower of Sir Robert Peel through many years of that great statesman's career; was appointed Secretary of the Admiralty, and subsequently Secretary of War (in 1845) under Peel. He held the same post under Aberdeen, when the Russian war broke out; how the War DepartmPeel. He held the same post under Aberdeen, when the Russian war broke out; how the War Department broke down under the pressure of the Crimean campaign, is an old story. But two years ago, when Lord Palmerston came into power, the Department was again handed over to one whom the London Times pronounces "undoubtedly the best man for the post." His immense labors in the creation of the famous volunteer force, in the amalgamation of the Indian and Royal armies, and in the introduction of rifled cannon, overcame the minister, so that he was a few months ago obliged to accept a peerage, and
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wanted. (search)
the immediate production of all the evidence relating to the inefficiency of the blockade. This demand, also, could not have been made out of motives of mere personal curiosity. Lord Palmerston sustained the Government in its course, and complimented the Cabinet on their "courtesy, consideration firmness, and decision," Mr. Hatfield, of Sheffield, an old peace man, endeavored to say a few pitying and friendly words towards the United States, but was literally laughed and hooted down, Sir Robert Peel came last on the list and, after remarking upon Irish topic, sneeringly alluded to "the victories of the Federal army, which are very much talked of but are very little seen." (Laughter.) Getting, as we do, nearly all our foreign news through the columns of the New York papers, we have been induced to suppose that the public sentiment of England was exactly the reverse to that expressed in the different speeches at the opening of Parliament. The short telegraphic dispatches and ex
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