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White was born in Nottingham, the son of a butcher, a trade for which he was himself intended.
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Excerpt from History of the Union Pacific Railway, Vol. 2 Mr. Whitney was a New York merchant in the China trade who had gained a considerable knowledge of the geography of the West and also of its needs and its possibilities. By incessant lecturing and writing, and by personal contact with leading men, he made his in?uence very widely felt, and impressed upon a vast number of people his views of the need and the feasibility of a Pacific railway. He has the honor also of having formu lated the first definite plan for a road. Although this never received the sanction of Congress it is important as indicating the first stage in the evolution of the Pacific Railway Act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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White was born in Nottingham, the son of a butcher, a trade for which he was himself intended.
After being briefly apprenticed to a stocking-weaver, he was articled to a lawyer.
However, he was greatly attracted to book-learning. By age seven, he was giving reading lessons (unbeknownst to the rest of the family, being offered after the household were abed) to a family servant. While in this position, he excelled in studying Latin and Greek.
Seeing the results of White"s diligent studies, his master offered to release him from his contract if he had sufficient means to go to college.
The book was violently attacked in the Monthly Review (February 1804), but White was rewarded with a kind letter from Robert Southey. Close application to study induced a serious illness, consumption was the disease, according to Sir Harris Nicholas memoir, to which he ultimately became a victim, and to which White made many allusions in his poems and letters.
Fears were also entertained for his sanity, but he went into residence at Cambridge, with a view to taking holy orders, in the autumn of 1805. The strain of continuous study proved fatal.
He was buried in the church of All Saints Jewry, Cambridge, which stood opposite the gates of Street John"s College, but has since been demolished.
The genuine piety of his religious verses secured a place in popular hymnology for some of his hymns, in particular the still popular "O Lord, another day is flown". Much of his fame was due to sympathy inspired by his early death. But Lord Byron agreed with Southey about the young man"s promise.
His Remains, with his letters (which along with White"s poems contain many allusions to himself that they may almost be considered an autobiography ) and an account of his life, were edited (5 vols, 1807–1822) by Robert Southey.
See prefatory notices by Sir Harris Nicolas to his Poetical Works (new ed, 1866) in the Aldine Press British poets. By Harry Kirke Swann in the volume of selections (1897) in the Canterbury Poets.
And by John Drinkwater to the edition in the "Muses" Library." See also John Thomas Godfrey and J. Ward, The Homes and Haunts of Henry Kirke White (1908). Lord Byron said of White in a tributary eulogy "while life was in its spring, thy young muse just waved her joyous wing".
White"s complete works were published in 1923.
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