Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great MusiciansHubbard, Elbert
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
Hubbard, Elbert
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Wanamaker, John, and A.T. Stewart, xi, 353;
Tolstoy and, viii, 205.
War, v, 238;
Thomas Paine on, ix, 173;
poetry of, ii, 271.
War of 1812, iii, 221.
_Warfare of Science and Religion_, Andrew D. White, xii, 222.
Warwickshire, i, 49, 304.
Warner, Charles Dudley, quoted, xiv, 225.
Washington, Booker T., parents of, x, 185;
Andrew Carnegie and, xi, 290;
Napoleon compared with, x, 211;
H. H. Rogers and, xi, 389;
Gen. Ruffner and, x, 190.
Washington, George, character of, iii, 6;
Weems' life of, iii, 7; v, 41; vi, 129;
lineage of, iii, 8;
home of, at Mount Vernon, iii, 16;
Indian name of, iii, 17;
appearance of, iii, 17;
love-affairs of, iii, 18;
marriage of, iii, 20;
appointed commander of the army, iii, 23;
strategy of, iii, 24;
humor of, iii, 25;
detractors of, iii, 28;
statue of, iii, 5;
letter of John Jay to, iii, 230;
Lincoln and, iii, 29;
on Thomas Paine, xiii, 84;
Mary Philipse and, xi, 217;
quoted, iii, 245;
referred to, iii, 90; xii, 57, 179;
Ary Scheffer's admiration for, iv, 235.
Waterloo, battle of, i, 233; iv, 82; xi, 161.
Watson, Thomas, _Story of France_, viii, 241; ix, 380.
Watson, Sir William, astronomer, xii, 182.
Watterson, Henry, on Lincoln, vii, 393.
Watt, James, xi, 68; xii, 179;
Humphrey Gainsborough and, vi, 133.
Wax-works, Madame Tussaud's, iv, 344.
_Wealth of Nations_, Adam Smith, i, 73; v, 94, 163; ix, 64.
Wealth, the handicap of, vi, 169.
Webb, Philip, architect, v, 20.
Webster, Daniel, birthplace of, iii, 191;
education of, iii, 192;
association of, with his brother Ezekiel, iii, 195;
graduation of, iii, 196;
his greatest speech, iii, 196;
his favorite theme, iii, 197;
debate of, with Hayne, iii, 198;
son of, iii, 200;
influence of, iii, 201;
the Stephen Girard case, iii, 201;
the Dartmouth College case, iii, 202;
effectiveness of, iii, 203;
death of, iii, 204;
on liberty, vii, 337;
James Oliver compared with, xi, 78;
on the practise of law, xi, 274;
quoted, iv, 253.
Wedgwood, Josiah, xii, 203;
S. T. Coleridge and, v, 305;
Gladstone on, xiii, 60;
Robert Owen and, ix, 225;
John Wesley and, xiii, 53.
Wedgwood, Julia, biographer of John Wesley, ix, 15.
Weems, Rev. Mason L., iii, 7;
_Life of Washington_, v, 41; vii, 199.
Wehrgeld, vii, 125.
Weimar, Germany, i, 58, 233.
Weir, Robert, Professor, vi, 342.
Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, i, 280, 313; v, 253; xii, 179, 338;
mother of, viii, 57.
_Werther_, Coleridge's translation of, v, 307.
Wesley, Charles, hymn-writer, ix, 11, 41.
Wesley, John, American experiences of, ix, 29;
education of, ix, 21;
influence of, ix, 11, 46;
marital experience of, ix, 44;
the Moravians and, ix, 31;
Governor Oglethorpe and, ix, 27;
on teaching, viii, 202;
Josiah Wedgwood and, xiii, 52.
Wesley, Susanna, ix, 221;
children of, ix, 11.
West, Benjamin, American artist, iv, 306; xi, 94; xii, 179;
Thomas Gainsborough and, vi, 150.
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