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But the world will be cruel, and the times are threatening. I shall do my best, but the best may be poor enough, and keep 'a heart for any fate." AEt. 55-56. The misgivings thus expressed to me in confidence, natural enough in one who had already known what it is to fall on evil days and evil tongues, were but too well justified by after events.
He was now a citizen of the world by his reputation; the past was his province, in which he was recognized as a master; the idol's pedestal was ready for him, but he betrayed no desire to show himself upon it. AEt. 44-46. During the years spent in Europe in writing his first history, from 1851 to 1856, Mr.
But the world will be cruel, and the times are threatening. I shall do my best, but the best may be poor enough, and keep 'a heart for any fate." AEt. 55-56. The misgivings thus expressed to me in confidence, natural enough in one who had already known what it is to fall on evil days and evil tongues, were but too well justified by after events.
An Afternoon in the Life of Mr. Neale Crittenden, aet. 38 May 27. The stenographer, a pale, thin boy, with a scarred face, and very white hands, limped over to the manager's desk with a pile of letters to be signed. "There, Captain Crittenden," he said, pride in his accent. Neale was surprised and pleased. "All done, Arthur?" He looked over the work hastily. "Good work, good work."
I soon discovered the spring, upon pressing which the back flew open, disclosing a circlet of glossy chestnut hair reposing upon an oval of pale yellow silk, in the centre of which were painted the words "Maria Lascelles; aet. 18.
No man can regret more than I do that such a correspondence is enrolled in the capital among American state papers. I shall not trust myself to speak of the matter. It has been a sufficiently public scandal." AEt. 53-54. In his letter to me of March 12, 1867, just cited, Mr. Motley writes: "My two concluding volumes of the United Netherlands are passing rapidly through the press.
There are plants which open their flowers with the first rays of the sun; there are others that wait until evening to spread their petals. It was already the high noon of life with him before his genius had truly shown itself; if he had not lived beyond this period, he would have left nothing to give him a lasting name. AEt. 27-28. In the autumn of 1841, Mr.
While at that school he made one acquisition much less common then than now, a knowledge of the German language and some degree of acquaintance with its literature, under the guidance of one of the few thorough German scholars this country then possessed, Mr. George Bancroft. AEt. 13-17.
He had been for some time, as was before mentioned, collecting materials for the work which was to cast all his former attempts into the kindly shadow of oblivion, save when from time to time the light of his brilliant after success is thrown upon them to illustrate the path by which it was at length attained. AEt. 36. The reputation of Mr.
"This was the Pocket Psalm-book of John Symmons who died at Salem at 100 years. He was born at North Salem went a-fishing in his youth was a prisoner with the Indians in Nova Scotia afterwards followed his labours in a Shipyard and till great old age laboured upon his lands and died without pain Aet 100. 31 October, 1791.
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