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Webb, President of the Free College of the City of New York, and from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Rev. Wm.

Among the many accusations and calumnies which were heaped upon this despised people, there was none

The answer is plain,by the hands of wicked men, and because his works were righteous, and theirs were

Know ye not that so many of us as were baptised into Jesus Christ, were baptised into his death ?

But they were not necessary, and perhaps not suited to any other people than they to whom they were written

Were you ever tempted by any devil but one in your own souls? No: you never were.

other European power, seated upon what must one day have been the easternmost projection of the American

Both shrouded as it were from the world, and dedicated to the service of Apollo almost from their very

Her first attempts at verse were given to the Athenaeum without any signature, or indeed even initial

word, and call Browningesque; for we question if, till Miss Barrett wrote, so singular a position were

Coleridge, Lloyd, and Lovell were those who were his first intellectual associates; after a time, Wordsworth

, Lamb, and Cottle were added.

All these were men of a peculiar stamp, some of the highest powers.

fitted for emigration to a new world than they were.

Both Lloyd and Lovell were singular beings.

Clipping on final page appeared in Scientific American, 25 September 1847; here it is pasted on a February

1851 essay on Robert Southey from the American Whig Review.

The Quirites were a Sabine race. These two towns were hostile to each other.

The senators were chosen for life.

were taken from, before they were conquered.

to the Etruscan city.

Schlegel 272 were hewn.

The Slavonians and Eastern Europe. 283 and adds the interesting fact, that they were in a good state

Specimens of wood found there were in an excellent state of preservation.

Even they, however, were doomed at last to foreign invasion.

, seeds that were but revived by the German Luther?

Even in her worst days, were her serfs more degraded beings than those of Russia now?

The false and the phantasmal have ever been considered the necessary complements, as it were, of our

They heard gods in winds and in fire—and altars to these were among the earliest raised.

The forests were sacred to the universal Pan—his fauns, sylvans and satyrs; every oak had its hamadryad

The Swiss peasants were successful, and are held in honorable remembrance forever.

We have a thousand proofs that they were rude, bad, ignorant times.

Grass points out that this is a revised reprint of an article by the same title published by the American

imprinting many a kiss; Joying, as I would joy, to see such charms, As though he knew how blest a lot were

I cried, 'would that I shared the bliss Of that embrace, and that such joy were mine!'

Meanwhile, the vigorous minds of Germany were occupied with other matters.

Soul-like were those hours of yore; Let us walk in soul once more.

It is the strangest contrast of cities that can be seen in Europe.

That night the eyes of my inner man were opened, and enabled to look into heaven, the world of spirits

At His presence all the spirits were gathered together from all sides; and when they were come they were

left to form a celestial society, but the evil were cast into the hells.'

tossing the figure of a quoit; others were pitching the shadow of a bar; others were breaking the apparition

"They live in two cities, to which they are led after death.

"Shakspeare versus Sand," anonymously authored, appeared in The American Whig Review 5.5 (May 1847):

There is intellectual, moral, and physical force-possibility in the world enough to amaze us if it were

THE INDIANS IN AMERICAN ART.

I T seems to us that the Indian has not received justice in American art.

In the beginning of that war, the Indians were induced, by fair promises, to assemble peaceably in the

They were seated on one side of the house, and the English on the other, who, after lecturing them upon

The Indians in American Art

manufactures, and all the principal themes of interest to men civilized life, and to men and women, were

common empire of H in the great Asiatic cities of Nineveh and Babylon and their empi empires, and the

—Vast libraries existed; Cheap copies of these books circulated among the commonality or were eligible

to the m, and there were institutions in which learning and religion grew together.

They were commissioned to develop the resources of the human mind in the cultivation of philosophy, and

from about 40˚ 34´ to 41˚ 10´ North Latitude, and from 2˚ 58´ to 5˚ 3´ East Longitude from Washington City

miles the hour without diminution or interruption, in an eastwardly direction, sweeping past the American

by the wreck of the British sloop of war Sylph, as well as parts of the vessel and cabin furniture, were

The force of the current between Oyster Pond Point and Plumb Island is very great, yet it is exceeded

afloat during low water of spring-tides, moored to the quays which bound the seaward sides of the city

For Whitman, these disciplines, and his own interest in and dedication to them, were often conflated:

"There were busy, populous, and powerful nations, on all the continents of the earth, at intervals [.

Through the stretch of time [. . .] there were busy, populous, and powerful nations."

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995. Camboni, Marina. Il corpo dell'America: 1855 .

"Whitman and American Empire."

city into a solitude of mourning and of ruins!

Notwithstanding this, the Turks were beaten by the Russians, and the man who then predicted the fall

We were slaves, we might command; but we only wish to be free, and liberty is but justice. 79 Mollas,

they were committed by those men, who, descending from their cages, thus indemnified themselves for

the Fortunate Islands, the abode of eternal spring; and beyond were the hyperborean regions, placed

The great characteristics of Franklin were perseverance, temperance, and common sense.

More than two-thirds of his fourscore years were passed in unremitting literary labor.

going forth, seeing all the beautiful perfect things— "Nobly does ARISTOTLE observe, that if there were

immutable in all eternity; when, I say, they should see these things, truly they would believe that there were

Would to heaven that it were so!

As he himself says:— "If these brief lays, of sorrow born, Were taken to be such as closed Grave doubts

and answers here proposed, Then these were such as men might scorn."

Children's Hospital" passionately asserting that she could not serve in the wards unless Christianity were

crouch whom the rest bade aspire. ****** Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us, Burns, Shelley, were

cases requires skill more or less mechanical, which technical skill is often called 'art' as if there were

They were made in 1809, or about that time, and are contained in three volumes, lettered 'Siddons,' which

Exalted prophetic tone, as if the whole future were present to her soul.

UPPOSE an English Prime Minister were to persuade himself and a large section of the public that the

every circumstance of cruelty and indignity which could add bitterness to death; and suppose a bill were

lives in one of the best houses of the place—"New Place" 1601 his father died, aged 71—his last years were

1600 As the first translations (worth‑mentioning) of the Iliad and Odyssey were published in 1675, Shakespeare

Chamberlain in behalf of him and Burbage 1600 and for some time before and after, juvenile companies were

At the back of the stage is a platform and balcony—that is the city-wall, where Helen will see the armies

—"What Pope says of some of the Plays of Shakespeare is probably true of all—that they were pieces of

I think posterity will doubt if such things ever were; if our bold ancestors who settled this land were

They were vapors, fever and ague of the unsettled woods.

His lays were heard in the pauses of the fight.

to blow through the long corridor of the canal, which is here cut straight through the woods, and were

When we reached the Concord, we were forced to row once more in good earnest, with neither wind nor current

from it, the revealed system of medicine, the Puranas, or sacred histories, and the code of Menu, were

—"A number of glosses or comments on Menu were composed by the Munis, or old philosophers, whose treatises

We seem to be dabbling in the very elements of our present conventional and actual life; as if it were

where how to eat and to drink and to sleep, and maintain life with adequate dignity and sincerity, were

In another era the "lily-of-the valley, cowslip, dandelion," were to work their way down into the plain

They are believed to preside over poetry, music, and all the liberal arts and sciences, and were generally

Yet, in effect, very much they have left is as if it were lost—for it is never read.

Perhaps so; if the exchange were always between a Claudian and a Tacitus.

were first opened to the day.

American Edition The Vanity and the Glory of Literature

.; American Edition

Saturday Review (London) of Sept 21, 1867, (p 383) distinctly endorses Walt Whitman as the only American

In 1660, the population was one hundred and thirty- four souls: in 1698 it had increased to five hundred

During this period, and for a long time afterwards, almost all the inhabitants of Brooklyn were Dutch

In that year, a number of emigrants, chiefly Walloons, were sent out from Holland to Manhattan, under

Francis Bright, who came out in 1629, were the first regularly ordained ministers in Massachusetts.

All around were then open cultivated fields with farm houses.

the arrow ; and these moments are all so closely connected, and yet so distinct one from another, were

uncorrupted frame, Such as the heavens produce; and round the gold Two brazen rings of work divine were

Th' embroidered sandals on his feet were tied; The starry falchion glitter'd at his side; And last his

That the writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were ignorant of the true principles of

In the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller, of which there is a translated American edition, we

—Thus reasoned the Emperor Caligula, according to Philon, proving plausibly enough that the kings were

—Aristotle had said, before them all, that men are not equal by nature, but that some were born for slavery

undeveloped is, in not realizing that the individual , man or woman is the head and ideal, and the State, City

Would that Lord Bacon were here! And thus we are led to a deeper truth.

History, without doubt, as Lord Bacon says—it borrows thence its mould, not rigorously, but with exceeding

An American poet may read Rousseau, but shall never imitate hi m .— He is a curious study, and will cause

After many wanderings, the last ten years of Rousseau's life, were in and around Paris.

Rousseau's Confessions— Swinton's translation, fall of 1856 were in 1766, Rousseau, 5 6 4 years old,

within a month of each other. finishing stroke George Steers's lead ☞ Remember in those days there were

[Walt Whitman], "An English and an American Poet," American Phrenological Journal , 90-91.

models and politics that were all awry: "Of the leading British poets many who began with the rights

"Thoughts on Reading, " American Whig Review 1 (1845), 485. Figure 2.

"Taylor's Eve of the Conquest," , American Edition, 89 (1849), 186. Figure 4.

He was certain that poetry must reach the people and on (what he thought were) their terms.

Written on the back of tax forms from the City of Williamsburgh, the manuscripts were likely, at one

of ships, my city."

my city!" And its fifth and final usage in 1860 comes in the volume's concluding poem, "So long!"

on earth to lead my city, the city of young men, the Mannahatta city—But when the Mannahatta leads all

the cities of the earth."

With Wales, it contains fifty-two counties, or thirty-seven millions of acres, and a population of about

legislative system till 1800, contains thirty-two counties, or twenty millions of acres, and a population

at a more rapid pace than any other part of the civilised world, some of the states of the North American

Barbadoes, Trinidad, and the other West India colonies, are less populous, the full amount being in each

In Ireland, the population is divided into seven hundred and fifty-two thousand persons in connexion

poetry, Whitman famously depicts himself as a "rough," whose poetry is an organic expression of the American

Images obtained from our library partners were scanned at 600dpi in tif format.

Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time.

American Literature 22 (March 1950): 29-53. Frey, Ellen Frances.

Walt Whitman and the American Reader. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Esp. 73-78.

neighbouring mountains, hoisted the inverted red flag to the foremast as a signal that the parties on board were

how it should be administered, and who were qualified and who not.

, and why they were so willing to give the price required for it.

they could go, and when they were wanted again they would be sent for.

This news was not long in reaching the American Legislative Assembly who were then in session in Westchester

This valuable property, of right belongs to the city of Brooklyn.

.1809 1847 39 Lincoln.............1809 1865 56 Cumming ..........1810 1870 60 Parker, Theo ......1810 1860

While those on one side were thus passing down in line to the stern, those on the other, having faced

about, were passing up toward the bow, drawing their poles floating on the water.

They were the most athletic, restless, and reckless set of men the country ever produced.

In their habits, the keel-boatmen were lawless in the extreme, and would set the civil authorities at

Had their numbers increased with the population of the West, they would have endangered the peace of

Population of the World. Mr. C. F. W.

Deitterich, a statistician and director of the Statistical Department of Berlin, estimating the population

"The Sorrows of Werter Werther " seems to us a wondrously trashy production, and, were it appearing now

, principle, or geniality, although with considerable power of simulating sympathy with all three, were

He passes with the general crowd upon whom the American glance descends with certain blending of curiosity

Gorilla—those reports and notices related of the much dreaded, ape-like animal of the African wilds, that were

Because they were implanted in us by God for this and no other purpose; 2d.

enter respectively into marital relations with new partners, then we say that his views on this point were

The real Ossian, if ever there were one is put down at 300 or 400 B C ) Ossian bosky shield— ?

.— That is, the antique poems were growths — they were never studied their from antiques.— Wanderjahre

.— Asia now contains and has from time immemorial contained more than half the population of the earth

China and Japan to Mexico, Central and South America, and next from Northern Asia, from which the American

Henry 8th—1509–1546 Under Mary, nearly 300 persons were burnt, for religious heresies Edward 6th, (9

to instruct them, and make them religious.— "Press" x article —James 2d, (him whom the name of the city

indulgent toward their kind of life; great European princes were in the same line, on a larger scale

.— The seas were at times infested with these rovers ; but though, to do them weaponry justice, most

individual freedom, against the invasions of the crown, unscrupulous power, or its deputies—these were

Versos of all pages feature the same "City of Williamsburgh" stationery as pictured for surface 2, each

American Library Literature, Emerson, the Dictionaries, R G Ingersoll, Ossian, George Sands' books, Ellis

With a population of less than one tenth of that of Wisconsin, with but one little piece of railroad

The Empire State put this name instead of New York The population, Wealth & commerce Mts, the Mohegan

The Mannahatta that's it Mannahatta —the mast‑hemmed—the egg in the nest of the beautiful bays— my city—ma

pine & live-oak of Florida Mississippi Staple—cotton Louisiana sugar-cane —the coast—the levee of the city

on Shockoe hill ( Richmond Va. a picturesque, commanding hill, & the building looking down, as it were

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