Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850.

PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOME OF SIR THOMAS MORE. A BUFFALO CHASE. EARTH'S HARVESTS. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LATE PRESIDENT. ENCOUNTER WITH A LIONESS. THE YOUNG ADVOCATE. THE REVOLUTIONISM OF MIRABEAU. THE "COMMUNIST" SPARROWAN ANECDOTE OF CUVIER. A GIRAFFE CHASE. ADVENTURE IN A TURKISH HAREM. THE WIFE OF KONG TOLV. MAURICE TIERNAY, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. HAVE GREAT POETS BECOME IMPOSSIBLE? RECOLLECTIONS OF THOMAS CAMPBELL. GALILEO AND HIS DAUGHTER. EBENEZER ELLIOTT. CONFLICT WITH AN ELEPHANT. LETTICE ARNOLD. RECOLLECTIONS OF DR. CHALMERS. THE OLD MAN'S BEQUEST; A STORY OF GOLD. ELEPHANT SHOOTING. THE POWER OF MERCY. BORAX LAGOONS OF TUSCANY. WALLACE AND FAWDON. WHAT BECOMES OF ALL THE CLEVER CHILDREN? LACK OF POETRY IN AMERICA. SIR ROBERT PEEL. SPONGES. THE RAILWAY WORKS AT CREWE. STEAM-BRIDGE OF THE ATLANTIC. THE LITTLE HERO OF HAARLEM. ADVENTURE WITH A SNAKE. MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS. LITERARY NOTICES. SUMMER FASHIONS. While living in the neighborhood of Chelsea, we determined to look upon the few broken walls that once inclosed the residence of Sir Thomas More, a man who, despite the bitterness inseparable from a persecuting age, was of most wonderful goodness as well as intellectual power. We first read over the memories of him preserved by Erasmus, Hoddesdon, Roper, Aubrey, his own namesake, and others. It is pleasant to muse over the past; pleasant to know that much of malice and bigotry has departed, to return no more, that the prevalence of a spirit which could render even Sir Thomas More unjust and, to seeming, cruel, is passing away. Though we do implicitly believe there would be no lack of great hearts, and brave hearts, at the present day, if it were necessary to bring them to the test, still there have been few men like unto him. It is a pleasant and a profitable task, so to sift through past ages, so to separate the wheat from the chaff, to see, when the feelings of party and prejudice sink to their proper insignificance, how the morally great stands forth in its own dignity, bright, glorious, and everlasting. St. Evremond sets forth the firmness and constancy of Petronius Arbiter in his last[Pg 290] moments, and imagines he discovers in them a softer nobility of mind and resolution, than in the deaths of Seneca, Cato, or Socrates himself; but Addison says, and we can not but think truly, "that if he was so well pleased with gayety of humor in a dying man, he might have found a much more noble instance of it in Sir Thomas More, who died upon a point of religion, and is respected as a martyr by that side for which he suffered." What was pious philosophy in this extraordinary man, might seem frenzy in any one who does not resemble him as well in the cheerfulness of his temper as in the sanctity of his life and manners. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 29655
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Release Date: Aug 10, 2009
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