Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (henceforth EHA), chap. In what is likelier coincidence than literary allusion, Adams specifies pears, which a millennium and a half earlier in the Confessions, Augustine had professed guiltily to having stolen in his own youth. 3: Some Words about Sir Walter Scott,â The Cornhill Magazine 24 (September 1871): 278â∹3, cited by John Henry Raleigh, âWhat Scott Meant to the Victorians,â Victorian Studies 7.1 (1963): 7â∳4, at 7. Hours in a Library (London: Smith, Elder, 1907), 1: 186â∲29, at 187, originally published as âHours in a Library, No. Samuels (New York: Library of America, 1983), 523.ĭesacralized. 11 âThe Three Queens,â in idem, Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education, ed. Henry Adams, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (henceforth MSMC), chap. Barbarism, superstition, and ignorance covered the face of the world, except in Italyâ). La barbarie, la superstition, lâignorance couvraient la face du monde, exceptÃ© en Italieâ (âMorals were not better in France, England, Germany, or in the North. (Paris: Garnier frÃ¨res, 1963), 2: 10: âLes mÅurs ne furent pas meilleurs ni en France, ni en Angleterre, ni en Allemagne, ni dans le Nord. Essai sur les mÅurs et lâesprit des nations et sur les principaux faits de lâhistoire depuis Charlemagne jusquâÃ Louis XIII, 2 vols.

Lionel Gossman, Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment: The World and Work of La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968).Ī mire of failings. Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye. Online at Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive (Massachusetts Historical Society), (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1973â∲013), vol. Butterfield and Marc Friedlaender, eds., Adams Family Correspondence, 12 vols. Letter to Abigail (âPortiaâ) Adams, without date, 1780, in L.

More precisely, Minister Plenipotentiary. OâConnor, The Athens of America: Boston, 1825â∱845 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006). Grant, and his brother was ousted (railroaded out?) from the top position at Union Pacific. For example, his father fell out of favor during the administration of Ulysses S. One of his brothers, Charles Francis Adams Jr., headed the Union Pacific Railway from 1884 to 1890.

An inference might be that who we are as well as who we were is contingent upon who later people say we are and were. It does not appear in the published transcript of the trial. The line is spoken by John Quincy Adams in the film Amistad, directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1997. Charles Eliot Norton, Letter to Henry James, December 5, 1873, Harvard Library, bMS Am 1094 (379).

Day by day America drifts farther & farther away from Europe.

A Winter At Broken Spur by Blaire Brand