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Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 4 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 2 0 Browse Search
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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Chapter 2: military policy, or the philosophy of war. (search)
s of chiefs of the State with their subordinates, are so rare and so transient, that there is no occasion for astonishment at the difficulty of putting men in their place. The faith of the prince, seduced by appearances, will then sometimes be surprised, and with sentiments the most elevated, he can be deceived in his selections, without being liable to be reproached for it. One of the surest means for avoiding this misfortune, would seem to be to realize the fine fiction of Fenelon in Telemachus, and to seek the faithful Philocles, sincere and generous, who placed between the prince and all aspirants to the command, would be able, by his more direct relations with the public, to enlighten the monarch as to the choice of individuals, the best recommended by their talents, as well as by their character. But will this faithful friend himself never yield to personal affections? Will he know how to divest himself of prepossessions? Was not Suwaroff repulsed by Potemkin because of hi
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Centennial Contributions (search)
use, especially in his earlier verses, and that its meaning is often too recondite for ready apprehension; but there are passages in it so luminous and so farreaching in their application that only the supreme poets of all time have equalled them. Homer's strength consists in his pictorial descriptions, but also sometimes in pithy reflections on life and human nature; and it is in these latter that Emerson often comes close to him. Most widely known of Homer's epigrams is that reply of Telemachus to Antiochus in the Odyssey, which Pope has rendered: True hospitality is in these terms expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. To which the following couplet from Woodnotes seems almost like a continuation: Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth,--his hall the azure dome; The wise man carries rest and contentment in his own mental life, and is equally himself at the Corona d'italia and on a western ranch; while the weakling runs ba
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Standard and popular Library books, selected from the catalogue of Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (search)
. I vol. 8vo, cloth, $6.00. Charles L. Eastlake. Hints on Household Taste. Illustrated. 12mo, $3.00. George Eliot. The Spanish Gypsy. 16mo, $1.50. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Works. 10 vols. 16mo, $1.50 each; the set, $15.00. Fireside Edition. 5 vols. 16mo, $10.00. (Sold only in sets.) Little Classic Edition. 9 vols. Cloth, each, $1.50. Prose Works. Complete. 3 vols. 12mo, $7.50. Parnassus. Household Ed. I 2mo, $2.00. Library Ed., $4.00. Fenelon. Adventures of Telemachus. Crown 8vo, $2.25. James T. Fields. Yesterdays with Authors. 12mo, $2.00. 8vo, $3.000. Underbrush. $1.25. Ballads and other Verses. 16mo, $1.00. The Family Library of British Poetry, from Chaucer to the Present Time (1350-1878). Royal 8vo. 1,028 pages, with 12 fine steel portraits, $5.00. Memoirs and Correspondence. I vol. 8vo, gilt top, $2.00. John Fiske. Myths and Mythmakers. 12mo, $2.00. Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy. 2 vols. 8vo, $600. The Unseen World
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Greek goddesses. (search)
r she excited has died away. There is a singular modernness and domesticity about this well-known scene, though the dignity and influence assigned to the repentant wife are perhaps more than modern. In the Fourth Book of the Odyssey the young Telemachus visits King Menelaus, to inquire as to the fate of his own father, Odysseus. While they are conversing, Helen enters,--the beauty of the world, and the source of its greatest ills. She comes dignified, graceful, honored,--shall I say, like a Menelaus, what men these are who take refuge in our house? Shall I be saying falsely or speak the truth? Yet my mind exhorts me. I say that I have never seen any man or woman so like (reverence possesses me as I behold him) as he is like unto Telemachus, the son of magnanimous Odysseus, whom that man left an infant in his house, when ye Grecians came to Troy on account of me immodest, waging fierce war. Her answering, said auburn-haired Menelaus, So now I too am thinking, my wife, as thou do
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), VI. Jamaica Plain. (search)
is the Ulysses of the Odyssey, with his deep romance of wisdom, and not the worldling of the Iliad. How finely marked his slight description of himself and of Telemachus. In Dora, Locksley Hall, the Two Voices, Morte D'Arthur, I find my own life, much of it, written truly out. Concord, August 25, 1842.—Beneath this roof of, I find just the alternation of repose and satisfying pleasure that I need. Do not find fault with the hermits and scholars. The true text is: Mine own Telemachus He does his work—I mine. All do the work, whether they will or no; but he is mine own Telemachus who does it in the spirit of religion, never believing that theTelemachus who does it in the spirit of religion, never believing that the last results can be arrested in any one measure or set of measures, listening always to the voice of the Spirit,—and who does this more than——? After the first excitement of intimacy with him,— when I was made so happy by his high tendency, absolute purity, the freedom and infinite graces of an intellect cultivated much b
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Zzz Missing head (search)
it was doubtless regarded in his day as something worse than folly or the dream of a visionary enthusiast He judged it wrong to lay down anything rashly, and seemed to doubt whether these different forms of religion might not all come from God, who might inspire men in a different manner, and be pleased with the variety. He therefore thought it to be indecent and foolish for any man to threaten and terrify another, to make him believe what did not strike him as true. Passing by the Telemachus of Fenelon, we come to the political romance of Harrington, written in the time of Cromwell. Oceana is the name by which the author represents England; and the republican plan of government which he describes with much minuteness is such as he would have recommended for adoption in case a free commonwealth had been established. It deals somewhat severely with Cromwell's usurpation; yet the author did not hesitate to dedicate it to that remarkable man, who, after carefully reading it, gav
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Ordinance of transfer passed by Alabama. (search)
The child, we believe, by the time he learns to read, has no taste for any such books. He likes something stirring — something animated-- something full of action — it may be the action of grown men or giants, but not of children. When the boy gets beyond the nursery, he despises Goody Two Shoes, and Little Bo Peep, and Jack and his Bean, and the whole array of nursery heroes and heroines. He is for stronger food. He is very apt, if he has a turn for books, to take at a tender age to Telemachus, or Tooke's pantheon, or the Iliad and Odyssey by Pope. It is astonishing how many boys read the last-mentioned works with the most eager delight. Not large boys, but little fellows of nine or ten. But of all books, the most captivating to a Virginia boy, is the Life of Washington, with its wood cuts, Braddock and the Indians, Cornwallis and the British army, Washington and the Hessians, &c. We are not ashamed to confess that we read the book, whenever we can get hold of it with infini
The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaways. (search)
Runaways. --Left my farm, on the 13th Instant, a Negro man, named Telemachus. He is stout built, about six feet high, very bright mulatto, with curly hairs and took with him several suits of clothes. He belongs to Mr. Theophilus Tatem, about two miles below the city, and may be lurking about the neighborhood, or near Edna Mills, in Charles City county, where he was formerly Hired. I will pay Ten Dollars for his delivery at my farm. on the Osborne Turnpike, about five miles below the city, or to myself in Richmond. James M. Taylor. au 15--4t At Jas. M. Taylor & Son's office.
The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
Runaway --Let my farm, on the 13th instants Negro man, named Telemachus. He is stout built, about six feet high, very bright mulatto, with curly hair and look with him several suits of clothes. He belong to Mr. Theophilus Tafem, shout two mile in the city, and may be lurking about the neighborhood or near Edna Mills, in Charles City county, where he was formerly hired. I will pay Ten Dollars for his delivery at my farm, in the airborne Turnpike, about five miles below the city onto myself in Richmond. James M. Taylor, At Jas. M. Taylor & Son's office.
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Subscriptions to the Dispatch. (search)
Runaway. --Left my farm, on the 13th instant, a Negro man, named Telemachus. He is stout built, about six feet high, very bright mulatto, with curly hair and took with him several suits of clothes. He belongs to Mr. Theophilus Tatem, about two miles below the city, and may be lurking about the neighborhood or near Edna Mills, in Charles City county, where he was formerly hired. I will pay Ten Dollars for his delivery at my farm, on the Osborne Turnpike, about five miles below the city, or to myself in Richmond. James M. Taylor. au 15--4t At Jas. M. Taylor & Son's office.