Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins: Containing Extracts from His Diaries and Letters. With an AppendixLittle, Brown, 1856 - 304 страници |
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Страница 224 - But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot ; he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas.
Страница 263 - But I do not ; and therefore ask your acceptance of a copy of this edition of my speeches. " I have long cherished, my dear sir, a profound, warm, affectionate, and I may say a filial, regard for your person and character. I have looked upon you as one born to do good, and who has...
Страница 258 - ... honorable life has been brought to a close within the past twelve months. " I cannot forget the earnest and affectionate interest with which that noble-hearted old American gentleman devoted the last days, and I had almost said the last hours, of his life, to arranging the details and the machinery for an appeal to the people of Massachusetts, in behalf of that still unfinished structure. He had seen Washington in his boyhood, and had felt the inspiration of his majestic presence ; he had known...
Страница 222 - Something over $30,000 was required. Col. Perkins and his nephew, Mr. James Perkins, son and sole heir of his deceased brother, contributed one-half of it, paying eight thousand dollars each, on the condition that the same amount should be subscribed by the public ; which was done. He made other valuable donations to the Atheneum, and was for several years president of that institution.
Страница 58 - She explained her object to me, which was to get her son sent to the United States to prevent him from being drawn by the conscription into the army. He was then fourteen years of age. The proposal she made to me 'was, that I should apply to the convention for permission to procure a passport for her son to go to America for the purpose of his being educated in a counting-house. As the marquis was in bad odor in France, it was deemed necessary to sink the real name of the party, and to apply to the...
Страница 7 - Boston massacre ;" and though he was little more than five years old at that time, the sight of the dead bodies and of the blood, frozen the next day on the street, made an impression on his mind that was never obliterated. The troops being quartered near there, many of the officers were afterwards visitors in his mother's family. At about seven years of age he was put under the care of a clergyman of great respectability at Middleborough, about thirty miles from Boston, and was afterwards at school...
Страница 257 - After the decease of Mrs. Perkins, some important business in which he was concerned required attention at Washington, and his courageous spirit still rising above the infirmities of age, he made one more journey there, resolved to see to it himself. While there he was concerned to find that work was likely to be suspended on the monument to the memory of Washington. On his return home, he took measures to rouse fresh interest in the work, and a considerable sum was raised for it, through his exertions....
Страница 14 - According to common custom, presented a petition through the Shabendar for permission to sell. Waited upon the director-general, for whom we had a letter from Mr. L , his nephew. His house a palace ; he received us, Dutchman-like, in his shirt sleeves, and his stockings half down his legs...
Страница 210 - Reaper, belonging to my friend Henry Lee, for London, in August, 1811. The intention of Mr. Lee was to proceed to India in the brig, taking funds from England, and returning to Boston with Calcutta cloths, which then paid a great advance. I sent funds in her, and she returned in the year 1812, during the war with Great Britain, and with great profit. Long-cloths of India then brought 25...
Страница 229 - Haiiy's type, would have -filled nine volumes, and cost twenty pounds, could be printed in two volumes for sixteen shillings. Early in the summer of 1834. he published the Acts of the Apostles. Indeed, such rapid progress did he make in his enterprise, that by the end of 1835 he printed in relief the whole of the New Testament for the first time in any language, in four handsome quarto volumes, comprising 624 pages, for four dollars. These were published together in 1836. The alphabet thus contrived...