Category: History - American
“Great oaks from little acorns grow.” How big results may flow from small beginnings is typically illustrated by the possibilities of the present volume. It began with the bare knowledge that there was, once upon a time, a man by the name of Browere, who had some facility in m...
The allied families of Adams and Quincy are the only instances in this country, that present themselves to my mind, of hereditary ability manifesting itself and being recognized...
7. Part 7Van Buren was opposed to the extension of slavery, but on all other points was an uncompromising Democrat. On this platform he was again nominated for the Presidency, in 1848, w...
2. Part 2Browere’s first satisfactory achievement was a mask of his friend and preceptor, Robertson, and his second was that of Judge Pierrepont Edwards, of Connecticut. But the most imp...
3. Part 3The attempt has also been made to throw discredit upon the service of the captors of André by underestimating their social position in the community in which they lived. This ab...
5. Part 5If my opinion as to the merits of the portrait busts I have seen of your workmanship, can be of any advantage to you, it is entirely at your service. I really think them all ent...
6. Part 6Other prominent sitters to Stuart in London were Hugh, Duke of Northumberland, the Lord Percy of the Battle of Bunker Hill; Admiral Sir John Jervis, afterward Earl St. Vincent;...
1. Part 1“Great oaks from little acorns grow.” How big results may flow from small beginnings is typically illustrated by the possibilities of the present volume. It began with the bare...
8. Part 8Stuart, G. Mask of, by Browere, 17, 76 Portrait of John Adams, 53 “Dolly” Madison, 59 Encourages Browere, 76 Bust in Redwood Library, 76, 79 Certificate to Browere, 77 Newspaper...