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=Everett, Charles Carroll.= _Me._, 1829-1900. A Unitarian clergyman
of Cambridge, dean of the theological faculty of Harvard University
from 1878, and a profound and independent philosophical thinker. The
Science of Thought; Religions before Christianity; Fichte’s Science of
Knowledge, a Critical Exposition; Poetry, Comedy, and Duty; Ethics for
Young People; The Gospel of Paul. _Gi. Hou. Sc._
=Everett, David.= _Ms._, 1770-1813. A Boston journalist who wrote the
famous lines beginning,--
“You’d scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage.”
Common Sense in Déshabillé, or the Farmer’s Monitor; Daranzel, or the
Persian Poet, a tragedy.
=Everett, Edward.= _Ms._, 1794-1865. A distinguished Massachusetts
statesman famous for his oratory. He was ordained to the Unitarian
ministry in 1813, but soon retired from the profession and entered
political life, becoming a congressman in 1825. After that date he was
successively governor of Massachusetts, president of Harvard College,
and secretary of state. He achieved a wide popularity, and his literary
style was greatly admired. His work has, however, failed to retain its
hold upon attention, and his polished sentences now find a constantly
lessening circle of readers. Defence of Christianity; Orations and
Speeches; Mount Vernon Papers; Importance of Practical Education. _See
Whipple’s Character and Characteristic Men; Allibone’s Dictionary;
Appleton’s American Biography._ _Lit._
=Everett, Edward Franklin.= _Ms._, 1840-1899. A Boston genealogist who
published genealogies of the families of Capen and Everett.
=Everett, Erastus.= _Ms._, 1813-1900. An educator once prominent in
Brooklyn. System of English Versification; Progress, a poem.
=Everett, William.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. Son of E. Everett, _supra_. At
one time an instructor in Harvard University, afterward master of the
Adams Academy at Quincy, Massachusetts, member of Congress in 1893,
and an active political speaker. College Essays; On the Cam: Lecture
on Cambridge University; the poem Hesione, or Europe Unchained; School
Sermons. His books for boys include Thine not Mine; Changing Base;
Double Play. _Rob._
=Everhart, Benjamin Mablack.= _Pa._, 1818-1904. A Pennsylvania
botanist, co-author with J. B. Ellis of The North American
Pyrenomycetes.
=Everhart, James Bowen.= _Pa._, 1821-1888. Brother of B. M. Everhart,
_supra_. A Pennsylvanian politician and congressman who published
Miscellanies; Poems; The Fox Chase, a Poem.
=Everts, Orpheus.= _Ind._, 1826- ----. A physician of Cincinnati. Giles
& Co., or Views and Interviews concerning Civilization; What Shall we
Do with the Drunkard? _Clke._
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