Henry Ward Beecher: An American PortraitPickle Partners Publishing, 2017 M01 12 - 413 pages First published in 1927, this is the acclaimed biography of Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), the American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer and speaker best known for his support of the abolition of slavery. It was written by former American diplomat, journalist, author and humanitarian Paxton Hibben (1880-1928). “Mr. Hibben has written a great biography, and one of lasting value. It is not merely interesting; it is profound. But its historical scholarship does not lie like a leaden weight on the book; for Hibben’s style is graceful and delicate, sometimes almost gay. He is so saturated with Beecher knowledge that he writes without effort. In reading it one feels that Paxton Hibben understands Beecher better than anybody has ever understood him, and that this book is a permanent contribution to American history.”—W. E. Woodward |
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... wind would catch Henry and Hattie and almost lift them into the air. He was “a little, fat, clumsy boy, that hardly feared anything visible, but dreaded all mysteries, and shook with vague and nameless terror at the roaring of the wind up.
... wind would catch Henry and Hattie and almost lift them into the air. He was “a little, fat, clumsy boy, that hardly feared anything visible, but dreaded all mysteries, and shook with vague and nameless terror at the roaring of the wind up.
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... Hattie they called her—was much closer to both Henry Ward and Charles than anyone else in the family, little as she resembled either. She slept in the same room with them off and on until she was thirteen{90} and generally served as a ...
... Hattie they called her—was much closer to both Henry Ward and Charles than anyone else in the family, little as she resembled either. She slept in the same room with them off and on until she was thirteen{90} and generally served as a ...
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... to an article of furniture. His one confident, Hattie, was in Hartford. Charles Smith, the negro, was no longer at hand. His step-mother was the same unapproachable person whom her daughter “never saw appear in the morning, or at any.
... to an article of furniture. His one confident, Hattie, was in Hartford. Charles Smith, the negro, was no longer at hand. His step-mother was the same unapproachable person whom her daughter “never saw appear in the morning, or at any.
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... Hattie, Henry Ward's imaginative sister, had flung herself on her face in the grass and cried bitterly. But for Henry Ward, the Greek was a Byron in the flesh. He worshiped Constantine. “He was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen ...
... Hattie, Henry Ward's imaginative sister, had flung herself on her face in the grass and cried bitterly. But for Henry Ward, the Greek was a Byron in the flesh. He worshiped Constantine. “He was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen ...
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... Hattie made the journey from Cincinnati to Toledo by stage, thence by boat to Buffalo, by canal boat to Albany, and by stage to Amherst. Of the thirty-nine men who received degrees, twenty-six had some part in the commencement exercises ...
... Hattie made the journey from Cincinnati to Toledo by stage, thence by boat to Buffalo, by canal boat to Albany, and by stage to Amherst. Of the thirty-nine men who received degrees, twenty-six had some part in the commencement exercises ...
Contents
PART IVSPRING TIDE 135 | |
CHAPTER XVI1860 136 | |
CHAPTER XVIIENGLAND 146 | |
CHAPTER XVIIIFORT SUMTER 158 | |
CHAPTER XIXLIVINGSTON STREET 172 | |
CHAPTER XXFALTER 186 | |
PART VCLIMAX 201 | |
CHAPTER XXVFALL 240 | |
PART VINEW LIFE 251 | |
CHAPTER XXVI1874 252 | |
CHAPTER XXVIICITY COURT 263 | |
CHAPTER XXVIIIHELL 278 | |
CHAPTER XXIXDELMONICOS 286 | |
CHAPTER XXXREDEMPTION 297 | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 311 | |
CHAPTER XXI1870 202 | |
CHAPTER XXIITHE UPPER ROOM 212 | |
CHAPTER XXIIIREMSEN STREET 222 | |
CHAPTER XXIVYALE 229 | |
SOURCES CITED 312 | |
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 326 | |
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