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...least from 1500 B. C., While others are of even more ancient times. Egyptian scholars recognize some of these tablets as despatches written by the Pharoahs. They cast a remarkable light on both the social and political conditions of the great nations which existed long before Moses was born...
...Born in 1799, Poushkin's first poem appeared in 1818. His literary career appears wonderful, when it is recalled that it was put an end to by a duel when he was thirty-seven years old, leaving him only nineteen years of literary life. In speaking of Poushkin as compared with his predecessors, the lecturer showed that in the eighteenth century poets had spoken of outside life; in the beginning of the present century they spoke of feelings and the inner life, yet with sterile aspirations into a world of dreams; Poushkin takes real life inasmuch as it is reflected...
George D. Robinson was born in Lexington, Jan. 20, 1864. He prepared for college at Lexington Academy and Hopkins School, Cambridge. He entered Harvard with the class of 1856. While pursuing his college course he taught a district school during two winters in Lexington. After graduating he became principal of the high school in Chicopee and held the position until 1865. He then studied law in Charlestown with his brother, Charles Robinson and in 1866, on being admitted to the bar, opened an office in Chicopee...
...speaker began by tracing the outline of the important circumstances in the life of Charles Lamb, who was the subject of the discourse. He was born in the Temple in the year 1775, and the family remained there for seven years after his birth. He was sent to Christ's Hospital, the blue-coat school, but not to the university; and in 1800 Lamb and his sister began their "dual loneliness" in the Temple. This lasted until 1817, when they took up their residence in Great Russell Street at the corner of Bow Street in a house which stood...
...Copeland began by stating the main facts and events of Johnson's life. Johnson, Samuel, the son of a bookseller of unusual intelligence and hypochondriac constitution, was born at Litchfield in the year 1709. From a dame school the boy went to the grammar school of the town. He left it at the age of sixteen and for two years helped his father in the bookshop. One incident of this period resulted fifty years later in Johnson's only connection with Litchfield after boyhood which the world takes note of. His father begged...