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Vidas y Retratos de los Presidentes de los Estados Unidos, Desde Washington Hasta Grant: Las Biografías por Evert A. Duyckinck y los Retratos por Alonzo Chappel (Classic Reprint) (Spanish Edition)
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Si los hombres supieran lo que cuesta gobernar a un pueblo, si tuvieran una idea aproximada de los sinsabores que consigo acarrea la elevacion al poder, si conocieran la responsabilidad que sobre ellos ha de pesar desde el momento en que lo obtengan, muy exiguas proporciones quedaria reducida su ambicion. Pero el hombre se crée siempre superior a sus fuerzas y por eso se engaña tantas veces.
Los Estados Unidos, aunque jóvenes y pasando todavía por las amargas pruebas que toda nacion y todo hombre atraviesa durante el curso de su vida, tienen ya su historia, rica en peripecias, honrosas las unas, admirables las otras, increibles muchas por lo imprevistas y lo anómalas. La lucha que para obtener su independencia sostuvieron luengos años; la que posteriormente les fué preciso trabar con la an tigua madre patria; las guerras con los indios; la de Méjico, yla todavia reciente y sangrienta que durante cuatro años ha desolado una porcion considerable del pais, ofrecen capitulos dignos de estudio y de meditacion para los que quieran aprove charse de su enseñanza. Ni es menos digno de tenerse en cuenta que en todos los casos mencionados el pueblo Americano ha demostrado siempre que posee tres virtudes que debieran imitarse; sensatez en su conducta, moderacion en sus actos, clemencia para con el vencido. En el calor de la pelea habrá, cometido cuantos excesos puede cometer el soldado, pero sus manos jamás se han empapado en la sangre de víctimas indefensas.
Desde que los Estados Unidos adquirieron vida como nacion independiente, hasta el dia de hoy, ha habido al frente de ellos diez y siete personajes, cuyas vidas han escrito diferentes historiadores y biógrafos. Sobre el mérito respectivo de cada uno de esos jefes el lector puede juzgar repasando las páginas que siguen, si no es que de antemano tenia ya formada su ºpinion, porque la vida pública de los hombres que en esta nacion han ocupado el poder, se ha distinguido siempre por algun rasgo que ha llamado la atencion del mundo entero.
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Supplement to the Cyclopædia of American Literature: Including Obituaries of Authors, Continuations of Former Articles, with Notices of Earlier and Later Writers Omitted in Previous Editions
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A Memorial of Francis L. Hawks, D.D., LL. D (Classic Reprint)
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Induced by an occasion which combines in the happiest manner an act of private friendship with a munificent deed Of public utility, in the gift of Mr. Niblo to this Society Of the historical library of his frieiid, the late Rev. Dr. Francis L. Hawks, we have met here this evening again to pay our tribute of respect to the memory of that departed friend and associate - a man Of great worth and eminence, person ally endeared to many thousands in this city, deservedly of high esteem by his brethren in his sacred profession, an ornament to the literature of his country. Any words which I, at least, may utter, must prove inadequate to the demands of such an occasion. How can we, indeed, recall on the instant the many claims to our regard which have filled the earnest and useful days of a long, beneficent life time? It is at best but to offer a brick as a specimen of the admired edifice. I fear to attempt the task set before me, of presenting even an outline of such a career, lest, by my few scant and imperfect words, I may seem to limit the impression of that excellence which now exists in our minds - something vast and undefined. Yet all efi'orts of this kind must be subject to some such limitation and we too, this evening, while we follow the hallowed example of cen turies, and bring our Offerings of eulogy and remembrance - the lilies with plenteous hand and the shining wreaths of immortality - must feel, with the pathetic poet of Italy though with higher consolations, that we are but perform ing an unavailing duty.
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A Brief Catalogue of Books Illustrated with Engravings by Dr. Alexander Anderson: With a Biographical Sketch of the Artist
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A Memorial Of John David Wolfe
Evert Augustus Duyckinck, New-York Historical Society
Printed for the Society, 1872
History; United States; State & Local; Middle Atlantic; History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic; New York (State); Travel / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic
Evert Augustus Duyckinck was an American publisher and biographer. He had a library of American and English literature and works on art, about 17, 000 titles, exclusive of manuscripts, which was given to the Lenox Library.
Background
Evert Augustus Duyckinck was born on November 23, 1816, in New York. He descended in the seventh generation from Evert Duycking who came to New Amsterdam in 1638, was a son of Evert and Harriet June Duyckinck and a brother of George L. Duyckinck. His father was for about forty years a respected publisher of standard literature in New York. In this environment Evert Augustus naturally imbibed a love for good books.
Education
Evert Augustus Duyckinck graduated from Columbia College in 1835, where his studious habits, classical attainments, and taste for elegant literature were distinguished. He then studied law with John Anthon and was admitted to the bar (1837), but did not practice.
Career
For a year (1838-1839) Duyckinck traveled in Europe. Returning home, he took up literature as a definite profession, toward which he had already contributed articles in the New York Review on George Crabbe, George Herbert, and Oliver Goldsmith. In December 1840, Duyckinck began in company with Cornelius Mathews the editorship of Arcturus, a Journal of Books and Opinion, a monthly discontinued after May 1842. Five years later he edited for Osgood & Company, publishers of New York, their new periodical, the Literary World, a Journal of American and Foreign Literature, Science, and Art. He edited twelve numbers, then retired. No. 13 was issued by the publishers and Nos. 14-87 were edited by Charles Fenno Hoffman. The Duyckinck brothers, Evert and George, then bought the periodical, and edited it jointly from No. 88 to No. 361, completing the thirteenth volume. It was the best American literary weekly of its time, but financially unremunerative. The brothers then turned their attention to research and the editing of a Cyclopedia of American Literature (2 volumes, 1855), which Evert, after George's death, revised and enlarged (2 volumes. and supplement, 1866), and which was brought out in a final edition, edited by M. L. Simons, in fifty-two parts (1873 - 74). It was during this period that Evert Duyckinck edited for Wiley & Putnam a Library of Choice Reading. He also edited the first edition in book form of Thackeray's Confessions of Fitz-Boodle (1852), the first American edition of Thackeray's Yellowplush Papers (1852), Sydney Smith's Wit and Wisdom (1856), and an edition of Willmott's Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1857). In 1859 he compiled Irvingiana, anecdotes and traits of Washington Irving. Later he edited the Salmagundi Papers (1860); Philip Freneau's Poems Relating to the American Revolution (1865); Alexander Anderson's Illustrations to Mother Goose (1873); and a collection of Anderson's engravings (1873). He wrote the text for the following subscription works, which had a large sale: National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans (2 volumes, 1861 - 62); National History of the War for the Union (3 volumes, 1861 - 65); Lives and Portraits of the Presidents of the United States (1865); History of the World (1869 - 71), largely compiled by his son George (1846 - 1873); and Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America (2 volumes, copyright 1873). He wrote memorials of John Allan (1864), Francis L. Hawks (1871), Henry T. Tuckerman (1872), and Fitz-Greene Halleck (1877). At the time of his death he was associated with William Cullen Bryant in editing Shakespeare (3 volumes, 1886 - 88). He was domestic corresponding secretary of the New York Historical Society, and a trustee of Columbia College and the New York Society Library. His library of American and English literature and works on art, about 17, 000 titles, exclusive of manuscripts, was given to the Lenox Library in two consignments, in 1878 and after his wife's death. For a year (1838 - 39) Duyckinck traveled in Europe. Returning home, he took up literature as a definite profession, toward which he had already contributed articles in the New York Review on George Crabbe, George Herbert, and Oliver Goldsmith.
In December 1840, Duyckinck began in company with Cornelius Mathews the editorship of Arcturus, a Journal of Books and Opinion, a monthly discontinued after May 1842. Five years later he edited for Osgood & Company, publishers of New York, their new periodical, the Literary World, a Journal of American and Foreign Literature, Science, and Art. He edited twelve numbers, then retired. No. 13 was issued by the publishers and Nos. 14-87 were edited by Charles Fenno Hoffman. The Duyckinck brothers, Evert and George, then bought the periodical, and edited it jointly from No. 88 to No. 361, completing the thirteenth volume. It was the best American literary weekly of its time, but financially unremunerative.
The brothers then turned their attention to research and the editing of a Cyclopedia of American Literature, which Evert, after George's death, revised and enlarged, and which was brought out in a final edition, edited by M. L. Simons, in fifty-two parts (1873 - 74). It was during this period that Evert Duyckinck edited for Wiley & Putnam a Library of Choice Reading. He also edited the first edition in book form of Thackeray's Confessions of Fitz-Boodle (1852), the first American edition of Thackeray's Yellowplush Papers (1852), Sydney Smith's Wit and Wisdom (1856), and an edition of Willmott's Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1857).
He wrote memorials of John Allan (1864), Francis L. Hawks (1871), Henry T. Tuckerman (1872), and Fitz-Greene Halleck (1877). At the time of his death he was associated with William Cullen Bryant in editing Shakespeare. He was domestic corresponding secretary of the New York Historical Society, and a trustee of Columbia College and the New York Society Library.
His library of American and English literature and works on art, about 17, 000 titles, exclusive of manuscripts, was given to the Lenox Library in two consignments, in 1878 and after his wife's death.
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Membership
Evert Augustus Duyckinck was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1855.
Personality
Lowell referred to Duyckinck as a ripe scholar and a neat critic, with the soul of a gentleman. Those who knew him best declared with unanimity that he was "singularly free from blemish or blame, and equally exempt from enmity or detraction. " In disposition he was retiring, gentle, meditative, hesitant in debate but genial and interesting as a companion.
Quotes from others about the person
William Allen Butler noted that Duyckinck's taste in literature was too high for most readers: "While Duyckinck was the most genial of companions, and the most impartial of critics, he was too much of a recluse, buried in his books, almost solitary in life, and entirely removed from the circle of worldly and fashionable life".
Connections
In April 1840 Duyckinck married Margaret Wolfe Panton. They soon took up their lifelong residence at 20 Clinton Place, which became the resort of the most eminent literary men of the country. Three sons were born, but all died young and without issue.