Dear Preceptor: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth HigginsonThomas Wentworth Higginson was a military commander during the America Civil War, an Abolitionist, a Unitarian minister, a writer and editor and the man who brought the poetry of Emily Dickinson before the American public. During his long life he knew many of the great people of his day including Emerson, Thoreau, Julia Ward Howe, and Wendell Phillips. |
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He was secretary of the college Natural History Society also . Natural History was a noncurricular subject in 1840 , but Higginson found it more fascinating than Greek , even though it could contribute nothing to his battle for first ...
He was secretary of the college Natural History Society also . Natural History was a noncurricular subject in 1840 , but Higginson found it more fascinating than Greek , even though it could contribute nothing to his battle for first ...
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toward the conventional and the outré ; in whatever society he mixed he always felt an adolescent desire to shock , right up to the time of life at which this could be accepted as one of the eccentricities of old age .
toward the conventional and the outré ; in whatever society he mixed he always felt an adolescent desire to shock , right up to the time of life at which this could be accepted as one of the eccentricities of old age .
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John Brown enchanted Higginson as Farley Storrow had enchanted him , because he was reckless , strange , and lived by a system of values unknown , although it might be intellectually translated , to Boston Brahmin society .
John Brown enchanted Higginson as Farley Storrow had enchanted him , because he was reckless , strange , and lived by a system of values unknown , although it might be intellectually translated , to Boston Brahmin society .
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| Cím | Dear Preceptor: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| Szerző | Anna Mary Wells |
| Kiadó | Houghton Mifflin, 1963 |
| Eredeti forrása | a Kaliforniai Egyetem |
| Digitalizálva: | 2008. ápr. 29. |
| Terjedelem | 363 oldal |
| Idézet exportálása | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |