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 | Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 147He was among my earliest acquaintances in Indianapolis. We first met when he was a student in the office of General Chapman and I a student in the ...more pages: v xxvii xxviii xliii 18 150 154 156 216 223 |
| Rochdale - Page 3but because Rochdale was the home of John Bright, and in this town during the civil war in America he frequently pleaded for the Northern cause with a ...more pages: lxxxi 4 225 |
More | Oxford - Page lxixthe Lyceum Club, the Atlantic Union, or to address the Rhodes students of Oxford, which he counted among his most delightful privileges. ...more pages: xcix 185 |
| Paris - Page ciiiBut on the eve of the day set for our departure he had a sudden and severe attack of the heart and we remained in Paris until his complete recovery ...more pages: ci cii 109 |
| New York - Page xxxviiiHe spent several weeks in New York and New England, where his brilliant and persuasive speeches attracted large audiences and arrested the attention ...more pages: xxx 88 114 217 223 |
| Swansea - Page lxxxI trust that the prosperity of Swansea may grow from year to year, and that its growth may be accompanied by everything that enriches the mind and ... |
| Rome - Page 177According to this view, Rome, in the most prosperous days of her decline, would have been an earthly paradise compared with America. ...more pages: 52 57 132 |
| Edinburgh - Page lxxxiiis the author, as you know, of a scholarly life of and the other guests were a Cabinet Minister, the Governor of the Punjab, a Member from Edinburgh, ...more pages: xcviii |
| Benjamin Hill - Page 87Upon the monument of Benjamin Hill in Atlanta is this inscription : " Who saves his country saves himself, saves all things, and all things saved do ... |
| Venice - Page livI knew that if I had become fit to serve the government by four years' residence in Venice that was a good reason why the government, according to our ... |
| Messina - Page 94To many the exigencies of the poor in London seem as remote as an earthquake in Messina, a famine in India, the foundering of a ship in the Black Sea ... |
| Pembroke - Page 185The college that attracts him most at Oxford is Pembroke, because of its associations with Johnson. He would be willing to sneeze for the rest of his ... |
| Iowa City - Page xxvmother and two sisters, Elizabeth and Catharine, moved West and he entered the Preparatory school of Iowa City and afterwards the University of Iowa ... |
| Glasgow - Page livHawthorne's conception of the ideal Consul would satisfy the most ardent devotee of the service — Bret Harte's post at Glasgow was filled vicariously ...more pages: 153 |
| Philadelphia - Page 159thus far rendered has been to drop gently a pair of spectacles for the use of a Quaker gentleman from Philadelphia upon the deck of an ocean liner ? ...more pages: 161 |
| Cardiff - Page lxviiithe Canadian Club, Chambers of Commerce from Cardiff to Glasgow, Railway Benefit Associations, Hardwick Legal Society, the Cambridge University Club, ... |
| Cambridge - Page 40At a time when Boston and Cambridge were centres of intellectual activity, Salem was still a provincial town and a survival, in a sense, ...more pages: 151 |
| Manchester - Page 214Beecher confronted when he subdued turbulent and intolerant audiences in Birmingham, in Manchester and in other towns of England by his eloquence. ... |
| Boston - Page 40At a time when Boston and Cambridge were centres of intellectual activity, Salem was still a provincial town and a survival, in a sense, ...more pages: 42 |
| Jerusalem - Page 86Florence, Athens and Jerusalem which have entered so completely into the intellectual and spiritual life of our race, have not done so because of ... |
| Bologna - Page 183You may advise me to live at Bologna to eat sausages — the sausages there are the best in the world ; they lose much by being carried. ... |
| Atlanta - Page 87Upon the monument of Benjamin Hill in Atlanta is this inscription : " Who saves his country saves himself, saves all things, and all things saved do ... |
| Salem, Massachusetts - Page 37The first of the name to leave England was William Hawthorne, who settled in Salem, Massachusetts, about 1630. In that most charming bit of ... |
| Berlin - Page 109The absence of a capital in America corresponding to London, or Paris, or Berlin, of a great centre which establishes standards and assesses values, ... |
| Southampton - Page 167bristling with statistics, fragrant with tonnage, a little sour of countenance, perhaps, when Holyhead, Fishguard, or Southampton was mentioned, ... |
| Florence - Page 57They passed the winter there and the following summer in Florence, returning to Rome for the winter of 1859. Hawthorne seems to have enjoyed Italy ... |
| Fredericksburg - Page 9and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellor- ville, the animal must be very slim somewhere — can you not break him ? ... |
| Athens - Page 109The old Greek did not have a greater love for Athens than the twentieth-century American has for his city. The size of the city, its physical ... |
| San Francisco - Page 114seminaries where the staff of teachers were largely composed of women, and this is true in our public schools to-day from New York to San Francisco. ... |
| Washington, DC - Page 219CARR (Director of the Consular Service, State Department, Washington, DC)more pages: 225 |
| Manila - Page 111When the Philippine Islands passed under our control we began at once to improve the harbour and city of Manila, to build highways and railways, |
| Calcutta - Page 54sent ships to China and Calcutta, and sat proudly by the sea waiting for incoming cargoes ; the Salem of witchcraft horrors and Quaker persecutions, ... |
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MoreOther editions | by John Lewis Griffiths, Mrs. Caroline Henderson Griffiths
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