[Numerals]
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
1050. (1)
PPo 8.237 7 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into
German...specimens of
two hundred [Persian] poets who wrote...from A. D. 1050 to 1600.
1067. (1)
ET10 5.160 1 The Norman historians recite that in 1067,
William carried
with him into Normandy, from England, more gold and silver than had
ever
before been seen in Gaul.
1136. (1)
ET16 5.289 8 Just before entering Winchester we stopped
at the Church of
Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer,
which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given
to
every one who should ask it at the gate.
1217. (1)
Clbs 7.239 23 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress
against his people
demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If
this
were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of
one of
the contending parties.
1292. (1)
Clbs 7.239 20 When Edward I. claimed to be acknowledged
by the Scotch (1292) as lord paramount, the nobles of Scotland replied,
No answer can be
made while the throne is vacant.
1373. (1)
Aris 10.42 9 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of
Parliament, the
sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be
returned.
1450. (1)
ET12 5.203 12 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel
showed me...the first
Bible printed at Mentz (I believe in 1450);...
1453. (1)
Boks 7.205 19 Now having our idler safe down as far as
the fall of
Constantinople in 1453, he is in very good courses;...
1470. (1)
Plu 10.294 25 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated in
Rome in 1470...
1471. (1)
Boks 7.209 22 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of
Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many
curiosities was a copy
of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471;...
1497. (1)
ET12 5.201 4 Hither [to Oxford] came Erasmus, with
delight, in 1497.
1499. (1)
ET9 5.152 20 Amerigo Vespucci...who went out, in 1499, a
subaltern with
Hojeda...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
1500. (3)
ET6 5.113 14 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian
traveller of 1500, no
greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to
eat with
them, or to be invited themselves...
ET7 5.124 8 The old Italian author of the Relation of
England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when
the war is actually raging
most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their
other
comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
ET9 5.145 11 A much older traveller, the Venetian who
wrote the Relation
of England, in 1500, says:--The English are great lovers of themselves
and
of every thing belonging to them.
1529. (1)
MAng1 12.224 9 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince
of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the
city [Florence]...
1530. (1)
MAng1 12.225 12 On the 21st of March, 1530, the Prince
of Orange
assaulted the city [Florence] by storm.
1557. (1)
MAng1 12.226 17 [The Pons Palatinus] fell, five years
after it was built, in
1557...
1559. (1)
Plu 10.295 7 [Amyot's] genial version of [Plutarch's]
Lives in 1559, of the
Morals in 1572, had signal success.
1571. (1)
MoS 4.164 3 In 1571...Montaigne...retired from the
practice of law at
Bordeaux...
1572. (2)
Plu 10.295 1 ...the first printed edition of the Greek
Works [of Plutarch] did
not appear until 1572.
Plu 10.295 7 [Amyot's] genial version of [Plutarch's]
Lives in 1559, of the
Morals in 1572, had signal success.
1575. (1)
ET14 5.242 27 Not these particulars, but the mental
plane or the
atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the
writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age (say,
in
literary history, the period from 1575 to 1625)...
1579. (1)
Plu 10.296 12 In England, Sir Thomas North translated
[Plutarch's] Lives
in 1579...
1580. (1)
ET12 5.201 4 Albericus Gentilis, in 1580, was relieved
and maintained by
the university [Oxford].
1583. (1)
ET12 5.201 9 Albert Alaskie...was entertained with
stage-plays in the
Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.
1588. (1)
War 11.158 11 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on
his return from a
voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to
suffer
me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
1589. (1)
Plu 10.295 24 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had
been lost, had not
this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt.
1592. (1)
MoS 4.169 14 Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age of
sixty, in 1592.
1596. (1)
ET6 5.108 18 The song of 1596 says, The wife of every
Englishman is
counted blest.
1600. (1)
PPo 8.237 7 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into
German...specimens of
two hundred [Persian] poets who wrote...from A. D. 1050 to 1600.
1603. (1)
Plu 10.296 13 In England, Sir Thomas North translated
[Plutarch's] Lives
in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603...
1613. (1)
ET12 5.201 12 Isaac Casaubon...was admitted to
Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.
1618. (1)
CPL 11.505 23 In 1618...John Kepler came upon the
discovery of the law
connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their
revolution about the sun...
1620. (5)
JBB 11.267 20 Captain John Brown is...the fifth in
descent from Peter
Brown, who came to Plymouth in the Mayflower, in 1620.
Shak1 11.453 13 The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620.
Bost 12.189 6 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James
incorporated
forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling,
ordering and
governing of New England in America.
Bost 12.191 5 The colony of 1620 had landed at
Plymouth.
Bost 12.195 11 The [Massachusetts] colony was planted
in 1620; in 1638
Harvard College was founded.
1622. (1)
Bost 12.190 5 Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in
1622...
1624. (1)
Bost 12.189 18 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four
parts of the world
that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to
transplant a
colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere;...
1625. (1)
ET14 5.243 1 Not these particulars, but the mental plane
or the atmosphere
from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and
readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age (say, in literary
history, the period from 1575 to 1625)...
1633. (1)
HDC 11.44 15 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or
selectman
appears [in New England]...
1634. (2)
HDC 11.31 27 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into
money and set
his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number
of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634.
HDC 11.46 1 It was on doubts concerning their own
power, that, in 1634, a
committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...
1635. (3)
Farm 7.139 24 In the town where I live...most of the
first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day,
would find their own blood and
names still in possession.
HDC 11.32 6 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to
begin a plantation
at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about
twelve families more.
HDC 11.44 18 In 1635, the [General] Court say, whereas
particular towns
have many things which concern only themselves, it is Ordered, that the
freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands
and
woods, and choose their own particular officers.
1636. (1)
HDC 11.54 18 A military company had been organized [in
Concord] in
1636.
1637. (1)
HDC 11.54 19 The Pequots, the terror of the farmer, were
exterminated in
1637.
1638. (4)
HDC 11.41 20 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to
Governor Winthrop...
HDC 11.54 20 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that
the new
plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations...
HDC 11.56 23 The college had been already gathered [at
Concord] in 1638.
Bost 12.195 11 The [Massachusetts] colony was planted
in 1620; in 1638
Harvard College was founded.
1639. (3)
HDC 11.41 17 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his
estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General
Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...
HDC 11.44 18 As early as 1633, the office of townsman
or selectman
appears [in New England], who seems first to have been appointed by the
General Court, as here, at Concord, in 1639.
HDC 11.54 23 In 1639, our first selectmen [from
Concord]...were
appointed.
1640. (2)
HDC 11.54 25 ...in 1640, when the colony rate was 1200
pounds, Concord
was assessed 50 pounds.
HDC 11.55 9 ...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord]
ceased...
1641. (1)
HDC 11.47 23 By the law of 1641 [in Concord], every
man...might
introduce any business into a public meeting.
1642. (1)
CPL 11.498 24 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the
first class that
graduated at Harvard College in 1642...
1643. (3)
HDC 11.41 6 ...it appears from a petition of some
newcomers, in 1643, that
a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first
settlers
without price...
HDC 11.55 4 In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it
became
expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in
Middlesex.
HDC 11.55 24 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of
the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr.
Jones...
1644. (4)
ET11 5.181 6 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The
wolves are here in
such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the
streets;...
HDC 11.46 8 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the
freemen were grown
so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise
the
laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted,
only
needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in
1644, to
become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.
HDC 11.51 10 In 1644, Squaw Sachem...with two sachems
of Wachusett... intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word
and know God aright;...
HDC 11.55 7 In 1644, the town [Concord] contained sixty
families.
1646. (1)
HDC 11.51 19 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his
first sermon in
the Indian language at Noonantum;...
1647. (2)
HDC 11.56 24 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that
every township
after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders,
shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
Bost 12.195 13 The General Court of Massachusetts, in
1647, To the end
that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers,
ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the
number of
fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write
and
read;...
1648. (1)
EPro 11.315 19 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in
modern history
were the Confession of Augsburg...the English Commonwealth of 1648...
1651. (1)
HDC 11.54 1 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651,
[the Indians'] desire
was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog
Pond... became an Indian town...
1653. (1)
HDC 11.57 8 ...Concord...in 1653, subscribed a sum for
several years to the
support of Harvard College.
1654. (3)
HDC 11.42 2 At the same date, in 1654, the town
[Concord] having divided
itself into three districts...ordered that the North quarter are to
keep and
maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their
quarter...
HDC 11.57 13 ...a new and alarming public distress
retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns, during more
than twenty years from 1654
to 1676.
HDC 11.57 14 In 1654, the four united New England
Colonies agreed to
raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the
Niantics...
1659. (2)
HDC 11.61 7 The elder Bulkeley [Peter] was gone. In
1659, his bones were
laid at rest in the forest.
CPL 11.498 26 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel
graduated at Harvard in
1659...
1660. (1)
ET12 5.201 27 [At Oxford] on August 27, 1660, John
Milton's Pro Populo
Anglicano Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.
1666. (2)
ET11 5.178 22 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl
Oxford, in 1666, that
the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.
HDC 11.62 18 Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added
by grants of the
General Court to the original territory of the town [Concord]...
1670. (1)
HDC 11.57 27 In 1670, the Wampanoags began to grind
their hatchets...
1676. (5)
HDC 11.54 11 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and
sixty-seven praying
Indians...
HDC 11.57 14 ...a new and alarming public distress
retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns, during more
than twenty years from 1654
to 1676.
HDC 11.58 23 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted
that he...would
burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston; adding, what me will, me
do. He did burn Groton, but before he had executed the remainder of his
threat he was hanged, in Boston, in September, 1676.
HDC 11.61 26 It is the misfortune of Concord to have
permitted a
disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its
limits, in
February, 1676...
HDC 11.63 7 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother,
Peter, was deputy
from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676.
1682. (1)
ET12 5.201 13 I saw [at Oxford] the Ashmolean Museum,
whither Elias
Ashmole in 1682 sent twelve cart-loads of rarities.
1683. (1)
ET12 5.202 3 I saw the school-court or quadrangle [at
Oxford] where, in
1683, the Convocation caused the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes to be
publicly burnt.
1685. (1)
HDC 11.63 10 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother,
Peter, was deputy
from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676.
The following year, he was sent to England...as agent for the Colony;
and
on his return, in 1685, was a royal councillor.
1688. (1)
SwM 4.98 13 In modern times no such remarkable example
of this
introverted mind has occurred as in Emanuel Swedenborg, born...in 1688.
1689. (2)
HDC 11.54 12 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and
sixty-seven praying
Indians, and in 1689, twenty-four Indian preachers, and eighteen
assemblies.
HDC 11.63 13 In 1689, Concord partook of the general
indignation of the
province against Andros.
1696. (2)
Elo2 8.129 4 Lord Ashley, in 1696...attempting to utter
a premeditated
speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able
to
proceed;...
HDC 11.63 5 Edward Bulkeley was the pastor [in
Concord], until his death, in 1696.
1699. (1)
HDC 11.64 2 In 1699, so broad was [Concord's] territory,
I find the
selectmen running the lines with Chelmsford, Cambridge and Watertown.
1701. (1)
CPL 11.498 27 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated
at Harvard in
1659, and was for six years, from 1701 to 1707, vice-president of the
college;...
1705. (2)
HDC 11.48 10 Individual protests are frequent [at
Concord town-meetings]. Peter Wright [1705] desired his dissent might
be recorded from
the town's grant to John Shepard.
War 11.159 9 ...in 1705, Vaudreuil sent [Assacombuit]
to France, where he
was introduced to the king.
1707. (1)
CPL 11.498 27 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated
at Harvard in
1659, and was for six years, from 1701 to 1707, vice-president of the
college;...
1711. (1)
HDC 11.64 21 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in
1711, it was
propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three
gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in
the
work of the ministry?
1712. (1)
HDC 11.65 6 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with
Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the
school-house for the town of
Concord...
1716. (2)
SwM 4.99 14 In 1716, [Swedenborg] left home for four
years...
SwM 4.99 23 [Swedenborg] published in 1716 his Daedalus
Hyperboreus...
1718. (2)
SwM 4.99 18 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of
engineering in
1718...
Plu 10.317 4 I can almost regret that the learned
editor of the present
republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of
Mr. Morgan, the editor and in part writer of this Translation of 1718.
1721. (1)
SwM 4.99 21 In 1721 [Swedenborg] journeyed over Europe
to examine
mines and smelting works.
1734. (1)
SwM 4.111 4 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in
the ten years
from 1734 to 1744...
1735. (2)
EzRy 10.384 11 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this
tendency [to believe
in a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of
the
father of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...written in the blank leaves of
the
almanac for the year 1735.
HDC 11.66 1 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given
as late as 1735, to
Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and
wildcats]...
1738. (1)
HDC 11.66 5 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral
office [in
Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss, in 1738.
1741. (1)
HDC 11.66 7 In 1741, the celebrated Whitfield preached
here [in Concord], in the open air, to a great congregation.
1743. (1)
SwM 4.99 27 In 1743...what is called [Swedenborg's]
illumination began.
1744. (1)
SwM 4.111 4 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in
the ten years
from 1734 to 1744...
1751. (1)
EzRy 10.381 1 Ezra Ripley was born May 1, 1751 (O.
S.)...
1751, Diet of, n. (1)
SwM 4.100 17 At the Diet of 1751...the most solid
memorials on finance
were from [Swedenborg's] pen.
1753. (1)
ET13 5.224 24 The bill for the naturalization of the
Jews [in England] (in
1753) was resisted by petitions from all parts of the kingdom...
1757. (1)
SwM 4.139 20 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has
informed him that the
Last Judgment...took place in 1757;...I reply that the Spirit which is
holy is
reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
1764. (1)
HDC 11.67 14 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again
at Concord...
1765. (1)
HDC 11.67 23 From the appearance of the article in the
Selectmen's
warrant, in 1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records
breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
1769. (1)
EWI 11.106 8 [Granville Sharpe] published his book in
1769...
1771. (1)
ShP 4.195 12 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's]
indebtedness may be
inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First,
Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771
were written by some author preceding Shakspeare...
1772. (3)
SwM 4.101 9 ...[Swedenborg]...died in London, March 29,
1772, of
apoplexy...
EzRy 10.382 13 ...[Ezra Ripley] entered Harvard
University, July, 1772.
EWI 11.106 21 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned
again and again, and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded,
and on the 22d
June, 1772, Lord Mansfield is reported to have decided...
1774. (1)
HDC 11.68 6 On the 24th January, 1774, in answer to
letters received from
the united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the
town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...
endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights,
that are
the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
1775. (8)
EzRy 10.382 15 In 1775, in [Ezra Ripley's] senior year,
the college [Harvard] was removed from Cambridge to this town.
MMEm 10.400 4 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...a warm
patriot in
1775, went as a chaplain to the American army at Ticonderoga...
HDC 11.72 8 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in
Concord] for the
enlisting of minute-men.
HDC 11.72 25 A large amount of military stores had been
deposited in this
town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was
to
destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on
the
19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.
HDC 11.77 22 I have found within a few days, among some
family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...
HDC 11.79 1 In the year 1775, [Concord] raised 100
minute-men, and 74
soldiers to serve at Cambridge.
SMC 11.349 4 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord
doubly our calendar
day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of the town by the
British
troops in 1775, and of the departure of the company of voluteers for
Washington, in 1861.
CPL 11.501 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne's residence in the
Manse gave new
interest to that house, whose windows overlooked the retreat of the
British
soldiers in 1775...
1776. (5)
EzRy 10.382 21 There were an unusually large number of
distinguished
men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...
HDC 11.79 3 In March, 1776, 145 men were raised by this
town [Concord] to serve at Dorchester Heights.
HDC 11.81 20 It was put to the town of Concord, in
October, 1776, by the
Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact
a
constitution for the State?
FSLC 11.204 16 In Massachusetts, in 1776, [Webster]
would, beyond all
question, have been a refugee.
EPro 11.315 20 Such moments of expansion [of liberty]
in modern history
were the Confession of Augsburg...the Declaration of American
Independence in 1776...
1778. (1)
EzRy 10.383 1 Mr. Ripley was ordained minister of
Concord November 7, 1778.
1780. (2)
EzRy 10.383 2 [Ezra Ripley] married, November 16, 1780,
Mrs. Phebe (Bliss) Emerson...
HDC 11.81 27 In 1780, a constitution of the State
[Massachusetts], proposed by the Convention chosen for that purpose,
was accepted by the
town [Concord]...
1781. (4)
ET11 5.178 14 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey,
afterwards Duke of
Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to
give a
grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of
Norfolk...
EzRy 10.383 5 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children:
Sarah, born August
18, 1781; Samuel...Daniel...
EWI 11.140 15 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781,
whose master had
thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat
the
underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and
owners...
CPL 11.499 2 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated
at Harvard in
1659...and his son Joseph was president of the college from 1781 to
1804;...
1782. (2)
HDC 11.79 20 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the
[Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum,
amounted, in the year
1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
HDC 11.80 17 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their
charitable posterity, if, in 1782, before choosing a representative, it
was Voted that the person
who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive
6s. per day...
1783. (4)
ET11 5.178 16 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey,
afterwards Duke of
Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to
give a
grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of
Norfolk...
EzRy 10.383 5 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children:
Sarah...Samuel, born
May 11, 1783; Daniel...
HDC 11.67 27 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the
[Concord] Town
Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
EWI 11.107 21 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of
July, 1783...to
consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of
the negro
slaves in the West Indies...
1784. (2)
ET11 5.180 22 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England,
in 1784, If
revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy...
EzRy 10.383 6 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children:
Sarah...Samuel... Daniel Bliss, born August 1, 1784.
1786. (2)
ET11 5.183 3 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by
250,000
corporations and proprietors;...
HDC 11.81 3 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents
arrived in this
town [Concord]...
1787. (1)
HDC 11.81 13 In 1787, the admirable instructions given
by the town [Concord] to its representative are a proud monument to the
good sense and
good feeling that prevailed.
1788. (2)
HDC 11.82 4 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its
delegate, accepted the
new Constitution of the United States...
EWI 11.109 4 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the
generous
enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves]. In 1788, the House of
Commons voted Parliamentary inquiry.
1789. (5)
ET10 5.155 22 During the war from 1789 to 1815...the
English were
growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
ET18 5.303 16 In the island [England]...there is...no
abandonment or
ecstasy of will or intellect...like that which intoxicated France in
1789.
CbW 6.254 14 Rough, selfish despots serve men
immensely...as the
fanaticism of the French regicides of 1789.
EWI 11.127 22 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council
report of evidence
on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late
day
being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime
Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to
retire
into the country to read the report.
Bost 12.202 14 Bonaparte sighed for his republicans of
1789.
1791. (3)
EWI 11.109 6 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave]
trade was brought in by
Wilberforce...
EWI 11.109 22 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons
in Britain pledged
themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island
produce.
EWI 11.141 13 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the
House of
Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these
poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human
nature...
1793. (2)
Suc 7.286 4 Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried
that city heroically
through the yellow fever of the year 1793.
EPro 11.324 20 This is an odd thing for an Englishman,
a Frenchman, or
an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition...of Poland, since
1793...
1794. (1)
ET7 5.123 2 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal
for victory on
14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June,
1794;...
1795. (1)
HDC 11.48 12 In 1795, several town-meetings are called
[in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for
land taken in
making a bridle-road;...
1796. (1)
NMW 4.232 13 In 1796 [Bonaparte] writes to the
Directory: I have
conducted the campaign without consulting any one.
1797. (1)
ET7 5.122 27 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal
for victory on
14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June,
1794;...
1799. (1)
Let 12.399 24 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic
Holderlin's
Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of
the
despair of Germany, whose tone is still so familiar that we were
somewhat
mortified to find that it was written in 1799.
1800. (3)
Wth 6.109 18 When the European wars threw the
carrying-trade of the
world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and
then made of an American ship.
Wth 6.110 26 The cost of education of the posterity of
this great colony [of
immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs
will
begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic
customers of 1800.
JBS 11.277 17 John Brown...was born in Torrington,
Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1800.
1801. (1)
ET4 5.62 1 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of
Northmen], when, in
1801, the British government sent Nelson to bombard the Danish forts in
the Sound...
1804. (2)
NMW 4.228 4 Fontanes, in 1804, expressed Napoleon's own
sense, when... he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the
worst disease that
ever afflicted the human mind.
CPL 11.499 2 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated
at Harvard in
1659...and his son Joseph was president of the college from 1781 to
1804;...
1805. (2)
Mrs1 3.129 1 In the year 1805, it is said, every
legitimate monarch in
Europe was imbecile.
Mrs1 3.142 19 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James Fox]
on the occasion of
his visit to Paris, in 1805, Mr. Fox will always hold the first place
in an
assembly at the Tuileries.
1806. (3)
NMW 4.250 9 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier,
bishop of
Montpellier, on matters of theology.
Elo2 8.123 2 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first
lectures in 1806, not only the students heard him with delight...
SlHr 10.439 16 It was rather his reputation for severe
method in his
intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel
Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University, when
vacant in
1806.
1807. (3)
ET4 5.62 3 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of
Northmen], when...in
1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...
EWI 11.109 25 ...in 1807, on the 25th March, the bill
passed, and the slave-trade
was abolished.
FSLC 11.195 6 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it
is piracy and
murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
1809. (2)
ET10 5.154 20 In 1809, the majority in Parliament
expressed itself by the
language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the
country, damn you, you can leave it.
Elo2 8.123 16 In 1809 [John Quincy Adams] was appointed
Minister to
Russia...
1810. (1)
ET6 5.109 17 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity
of Perceval, prime
minister in 1810, to the fact that he was wont to go to church every
Sunday...
1812. (3)
Wth 6.109 18 When the European wars threw the
carrying-trade of the
world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and
then made of an American ship.
Boks 7.209 17 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of
Roxburgh was sold.
JBB 11.268 2 [John Brown's] father...became a
contractor to supply the
army with beef, in the war of 1812...
1814. (2)
NMW 4.243 2 In 1814...Napoleon said to those around him,
Gentlemen... my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.
NMW 4.258 9 ...the universal cry of France and of
Europe in 1814 was, Enough of him; Assez de Bonaparte.
1815. (2)
ET10 5.155 22 During the war from 1789 to 1815...the
English were
growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
Scot 11.463 17 I can well remember as far back as when
The Lord of the
Isles was first republished in Boston, in 1815...
1817. (1)
Thor 10.451 8 [Thoreau] was born in Concord,
Massachusetts, on the 12th
of July, 1817.
1820. (4)
GoW 4.276 22 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp
[the Devil]. He
shall be real;...he shall dress like a gentleman...and be well
initiated in the
life of Vienna and of Heidelberg in 1820...
ET15 5.263 24 In 1820, [the London Times] adopted the
cause of Queen
Caroline, and carried it against the king.
LLNE 10.325 19 It is not easy to date these eras of
activity with any
precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and
the
twenty years following.
LLNE 10.330 15 Germany had created criticism in vain
for us until 1820...
1821. (1)
EWI 11.110 9 In 1821, according to official documents
presented to the
American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were
deported from Africa.
1822. (1)
ET11 5.183 5 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by
250,000
corporations and proprietors; and in 1822, by 32,000.
1823. (1)
Milt1 12.247 3 The discovery of the lost work of Milton,
the treatise Of the
Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name.
1825. (3)
OA 7.332 2 I have lately found in an old note-book a
record of a visit to ex-President
John Adams, in 1825...
OA 7.332 9 --,February, 1825 To-day at Quincy, with my
brother, by
invitation of Mr. [John] Adams's family.
FSLN 11.239 21 In 1825 Greece found America deaf...
1829. (1)
ET10 5.158 25 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in
England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by these
interruptions [of labor]...
1830. (5)
MoS 4.162 27 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery
of Pere Lachaise, I
came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon, who died in 1830...
ET10 5.158 25 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in
England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by these
interruptions [of labor]...
ET10 5.159 10 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts]
succeeded, and in 1830
procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...
MMEm 10.420 9
HDC 11.82 14 [Concord's] population, in the census of 1830, was
2020
souls.
1832. (1)
ET11 5.182 24 ...before the Reform of 1832, one hundred
and fifty-four
persons sent three hundred and seven members to Parliament.
1833. (6)
MoS 4.162 25 It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that,
in the cemetery of
Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...
ET1 5.3 1 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed
in London...
ET1 5.5 9 On looking over the diary of my journey in
1833, I find nothing
to publish in my memoranda of visits to places.
MMEm 10.404 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew
Charles
Emerson, in 1833: I could never have adorned a garden.
EWI 11.112 1 ...in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley,
Minister of the
Colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the
Emancipation.
CPL 11.497 18 ...I always remember with satisfaction
that I saw that
venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833...
1834. (3)
EWI 11.112 7 The scheme of the
Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the
West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be
registered as apprenticed laborers...
EWI 11.112 23 ...Be it enacted, that all and every
person who, on the first
August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony
as
aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become
and
be to all intents and purposes free...
EWI 11.113 6 ...be it enacted...that from and after the
first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever
abolished and declared
unlawful throughout the British colonies...
1834, n. (1)
EWI 11.117 3 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen
and Sir George
Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months, from 1st
August, 1834, no injury or violence had been offered to any white [in
the
West Indies]...
1835. (3)
LVB 11.90 27 The newspapers now inform us that, in
December, 1835, a
treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was
pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with
some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
EWI 11.116 27 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord
Aberdeen and Sir
George Grey, declared to the Parliament that the system [of
emancipation in
the West Indies] worked well;...
Shak1 11.452 6 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like
the great wine
years,-the vintage of 1847, is it? or 1835?...
1837. (2)
Thor 10.451 9 [Thoreau] was graduated at Harvard College
in 1837...
EWI 11.115 9 I will not repeat to you the well-known
paragraph, in which
Messrs, Thome and Kimball, the commissioners sent out in the year
1837... describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the
island of
Antigua.
1838. (5)
EWI 11.119 26 ...the great island of Jamaica...early in
1838, resolved...to
emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
EWI 11.120 2 ...the great island of
Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate
absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
EWI 11.120 6 ...on the 1st August, 1838, the shackles
dropped from every
British slave.
EWI 11.120 13 The First of August, 1838, was observed
in Jamaica as a
day of thanksgiving and prayer.
Scot 11.462 9 Our concern is only with the residue,
where the man Scott
was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in
the
country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a
barren
and disagreeable territory. Lecture, Being and Seeming, 1838.
1840. (3)
LLNE 10.340 11 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with
George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring
cultivated, thoughtful people
together...
CSC 10.373 1 In the month of November, 1840, a
Convention of Friends of
Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...
EWI 11.120 27 ...in 1840 Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new
governor of
Jamaica, in his address to the Assembly expressed himself to that late
exasperated body in these terms...
1841. (2)
LLNE 10.359 16 The West Roxbury Association was formed
in 1841...
EzRy 10.383 7 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children:
Sarah...Samuel... Daniel Bliss, born August 1, 1784. He died September
21, 1841.
1842. (2)
Tran 1.329 13 What is popularly called Transcendentalism
among us, is
Idealism; Idealism as it appears in 1842.
LLNE 10.363 9 [Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in
1842, such
worlds of life;...
1843. (1)
ET1 5.6 12 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture,
published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr.
Ruskin on the morality
in architecture...
1844. (1)
SlHr 10.437 21 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to
South Carolina as
the Commissioner of Massachusetts in 1844...he was repeatedly warned
that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
1845. (2)
LLNE 10.346 19 Robert Owen of Lanark came hither from
England in
1845...
Thor 10.457 25 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small
framed house on
the shores of Walden Pond...
1847. (7)
ET2 5.25 5 The occasion of my second visit to England
was an invitation
from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in
1847 had been linked into a Union...
ET2 5.26 10 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship
Washington Irving and
sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.
ET12 5.204 9 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent
during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.
ET15 5.269 16 On the days when I arrived in London in
1847, I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one
offering a
reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman,
described
by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in
England...
ET19 5.309 2 A few days after my arrival at Manchester,
in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet...
Thor 10.458 7 In 1847, not approving some uses to which
the public
expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was
put in jail.
Shak1 11.452 6 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like
the great wine
years,-the vintage of 1847, is it? or 1835?...
1848. (17)
ET4 5.44 21 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848) 222,000, 000 souls...
ET4 5.64 15 In the last session (1848), the House of
Commons was
listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the
jails.
ET7 5.121 13 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived
there on his
escape from Paris, in February, 1848.
ET7 5.122 16 In February, 1848, [the English] said,
Look, the French king
and his party fell for want of a shot;...
ET7 5.123 17 [The English] are very liable in their
politics to extraordinary
delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was
urged
or assisted by foreigners...
ET10 5.160 17 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that
the people of this
country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in
railways, in the last four years.
ET11 5.184 1 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848
(the day of the
Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for
the
first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...
ET12 5.199 14 ...I availed myself of some repeated
invitations to Oxford... and went thither on the last day of March,
1848.
ET12 5.203 7 I saw the whole [Thomas Lawrence art
collection] collection
in April, 1848.
ET12 5.210 11 I looked over the Examination Papers of
the year 1848 [at
Oxford]...
ET13 5.218 15 It was strange to hear the pretty
pastoral of the betrothal of
Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with
circumstantiality
in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848...
ET15 5.264 7 [The London Times] denounced and
discredited the French
Republic of 1848...
ET15 5.265 23 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the
daily printing [of the
London Times] was then 35,000 copies; that on the 1st March, 1848, the
greatest number ever printed--54,000--were issued;...
ET17 5.294 8 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a
couple of days the
guest of Miss Martineau...
Grts 8.306 6 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing
Professor Faraday
deliver...a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism...
Chr2 10.105 22 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia
in 1848, says: The
Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
Carl 10.496 21 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was
the best thing [Carlyle] had seen...
1849. (2)
CbW 6.255 18 I do not think very respectfully of the
designs or the doings
of the people who went to California in 1849.
MoL 10.243 2 America at large exhibited such a
confusion as California
showed in 1849...
1850. (4)
FSLC 11.192 26 You know that the Act of Congress of
September 18, 1850, is a law which every one of you will break on the
earliest occasion.
FSLC 11.195 9 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is
a high crime and
misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the
reenslaving a man on the coast of America.
FSLC 11.203 16 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union,
on the 7th
March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the
slavery party in this country.
FSLN 11.233 24 ...now you relied on these dismal
guaranties infamously
made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is
found
that they have crumbled.
1852. (1)
ET4 5.46 2 ...it remains to be seen whether [the
English] can make good
the exodus of millions from Great Britain, amounting in 1852 to more
than
a thousand a day.
1854. (3)
ET10 5.160 15 The yield of wheat [in England] has gone
on from 2,000, 000 quarters in the time of the Stuarts, to 13,000,000
in 1854.
FSLN 11.218 11 ...who are the readers and thinkers of
1854?
FSLN 11.242 9 ...[scholars and literary men] are
lukewarm lovers of the
liberty of America in 1854.
1855. (2)
ET11 5.187 2 The economist of 1855 who asks, Of what use
are the [English] lords? may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use is a
baby?
GSt 10.502 3 As early as 1855 the Emigrant Aid Society
was formed;...
1856. (2)
PPo 8.237 2 To Baron von Hammer Purgstall, who died in
Vienna in 1856, we owe our best knowledge of the Persians.
GSt 10.502 4 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the
Massachusetts State
Kansas Committee...
1856-57. (1)
GSt 10.502 19 For the relief of Kansas, in 1856-57,
[George Stearns's] own
contributions were the largest and the first.
1857. (1)
GSt 10.502 9 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to
this cause [of
Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown...
1858. (1)
Boks 7.193 7 In 1858, the number of printed books in the
Imperial Library
at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes...
1859. (1)
EPro 11.324 20 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a
Frenchman, or
an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition of Italy, until
1859...
1860. (1)
GSt 10.504 6 [George Stearns's] examination before the
United States
Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion, in January, 1860...is
a
chapter well worth reading...
1861. (6)
OA 7.315 2 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society at
Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the
dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
SMC 11.349 6 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord
doubly our calendar
day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of the town by the
British
troops in 1775, and of the departure of the company of voluteers for
Washington, in 1861.
SMC 11.364 1 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was
encamped at Camp
Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came.
SMC 11.365 22 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery
company of this town [Concord] was reorganized...
SMC 11.366 7 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant
in this [Forty-seventh] regiment, as he had been already lieutenant in
Captain Prescott's
company in 1861, went out again in August, 1864...
SMC 11.366 26 After the return of the three months'
company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of
volunteers...
1862. (4)
GSt 10.503 8 In 1862...[George Stearns] took the first
steps for organizing
the Freedman's Bureau...
SMC 11.365 25 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery
company of this town [Concord] was reorganized, and Captain Richard
Barrett received a
commission in March, 1862, from the state, as its commander.
SMC 11.366 15 In August, 1862, on the new requisition
for troops...twelve
men, including [Sylvester Lovejoy], were enlisted for three years...
SMC 11.367 19 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula,
in July, 1862, it is
all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud.
1863. (2)
GSt 10.503 12 In 1863 [George Stearns] began to recruit
colored soldiers in
Buffalo...
SMC 11.368 14 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July,
1863, the brigade of
which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle
seventy-two hours...
1864. (1)
SMC 11.366 7 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in
this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864...
1865. (1)
SMC 11.373 23 On the first of January, 1865, the
Thirty-second Regiment
made itself comfortable in log huts...
1899. (1)
ShP 4.195 15 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's]
indebtedness may be
inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First,
Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771
were written by some author preceding Shakspeare, 2373 by him, on the
foundation laid by his predecessors, and 1899 were entirely his own.
200, No., Broadway, n. (1)
LLNE 10.353 10 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's]
design have also
believed...that the method of each associate might be trusted, as well
as that
of his particular Committee and General Office, No. 200 Broadway?
2000 Tremont Street, No., (1)
Clbs 7.244 18 If [my friend] were sure to find at No.
2000 Tremont Street
what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston
would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.
2373. (1)
ShP 4.195 13 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's]
indebtedness may be
inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First,
Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771
were written by some author preceding Shakspeare, 2373 by him, on the
foundation laid by his predecessors...
361. (1)
ET9 5.152 8 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of
Cappadocia] was
dragged to prison;...
406. (1)
ET16 5.283 6 On hints like these, Stukeley...bravely
assigns the year 406
before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
427 A.C. (1)
PPh 4.43 23 [Plato] was born 427A.C....
50. (1)
Plu 10.293 9 It is agreed that he was born about the
year 50 of the Christian
era.
600. (1)
ET4 5.66 17 The anecdote of the handsome captives which
Saint Gregory
found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman
chroniclers, five centuries later...
6043. (1)
ShP 4.195 12 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's]
indebtedness may be
inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First,
Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771
were written by some author preceding Shakspeare...
626. (1)
Imtl 8.323 1 In the year 626 of our era, when Edwin, the
Anglo-Saxon
king, was deliberating on receiving the Christian missionaries, one of
his
nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that
space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
845. (1)
Pray 12.351 20 Wacic the Caliph, who died A. D. 845,
ended his life...with
these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose
dignity is so transient.
896. (1)
ET12 5.203 10 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel
showed me the
manuscript Plato, of the date of A.D. 896...
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