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...idered not only the first literary text in Modern Portuguese, but also a national epic of the same level as Vergil's Aeneid. In the 19th century, Sir Richard Francis Burton translated Camões' Lusiads, in what he considered the most pleasing literary labour of his life. (Summary by Leni)...

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...mong them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the first of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 01 )...

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...mong them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the sixth of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)...

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.... Ile pheeze you infaith. Host. A paire of stockes you rogue. Beg. Y?are a baggage, the Slies are no Rogues. Looke in the Chronicles, we came in with Richard Conqueror: therefore Paucas pallabris, let the world slide: Sessa. Host. You will not pay for the glasses you have burst? Beg. No, not a deniere: go by S[aint]. Jeronimie, goe to thy cold bed, and warme thee. Host. I ...

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...are no 7 Rogues. Looke in the Chronicles, we came 8 in with Richard Conqueror: therefore Pau-cas 9 pallabris, let the world sli... ... you make me mad? Am not I Chri-stopher 171 Slie, old Slies sonne of Burton- heath, by byrth a 172 Pedler, by education a Cardmaker, by tra...

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...diately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richardson’s Dictionary. tan, Hebrew. ^ o& , Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL... ...hat sort that was killed by any man, such is his fierceness and swiftness.” Richard Stafford’s Letter from the Bermudas. Phil. Trans. A.D. 1668. 8 Ext... ...r the shops of oil dealers, what shall be said of them? They are generally Richard III. whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage; breakfasting on... ...Whale in the United States.” Moreover, at a place in York shire, England, Burton Constable by name, a certain Sir Clifford Constable has in his posse... ...in Ahab mistakes; it is I. The oil in the hold is leaking, sir. We must up Burtons and break out.” “Up Burtons and break out? Now that we are nearing ... ...t, even if found, in this life’s howling gale? Starbuck! I’ll not have the Burtons hoisted.” “What will the owners say, sir?” “Let the owners stand on... ... sails, and close reef the top sails, fore and aft; back the main yard; up Burtons, and break out in the main hold.” It were perhaps vain to surmise e... ...hief officer of his ship. However it was, his orders were executed; and the Burtons were hoisted. Chapter 110 Queequeg in his Coffin U pon searching, i...

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.... 467 Wor. I cannot blame him: was he not proclaim’d 468 By Richard that dead is, the next of blood? 469 Nor. He was: I heard ... ...d fouly spoken of. [e1v 477 Hot. But soft I pray you; did King Richard then 478 Proclaime my brother Mortimer, 479 Heyre to the... ... 497 (As Both of you, God pardon it, haue done) 498 To put downe Richard, that sweet louely Rose, 499 And plant this Thorne, this Canke... ...when I heare 569 Of this vile Politician Bullingbrooke. 570 In Richards time: What de’ye call the place? 571 A plague vpon’t, it is i... ... of your Wiues and you. 1624 Hotsp. Me thinks my Moity, North from Burton here, - 36 - The First Part of Henry the Fourth Shakespeare: First ... ...3 King. For all the World, 1914 As thou art to this houre, was Richard then, 1915 When I from France set foot at Rauenspurgh; 1916 ...

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...iately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richardson’ s Dictionary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. H... ...sort that was killed by any man, such is his fierceness and swift- ness.” —Richard Strafford’s Letter from the Bermudas. Phil. Trans. A.D. 1668. “Whal... ...r the shops of oil-dealers, what shall be said of them? They are generally Richard III. whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage; breakfasting on... ...hale in the United States.” More- over, at a place in Y orkshire, England, Burton Constable by name, a certain Sir Clifford Constable has in his posse... ...in Ahab mistakes; it is I. The oil in the hold is leaking, sir. We must up Burtons and break out.” “Up Burtons and break out? Now that we are nearing ... ...t, even if found, in this life’s howling gale? Starbuck! I’ll not have the Burtons hoisted.” “What will the owners say, sir?” “Let the owners stand on... ...sails, and close-reef the top-sails, fore and aft; back the main- yard; up Burton, and break out in the main-hold.” It were perhaps vain to surmise ex... ...ief officer of his ship. However it was, his orders were executed; and the Burtons were hoisted. CHAPTER 110 Queequeg in His Coffin U PON SEARCHING, i...

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...on of Miss Strickland’s Life of Mary Queen of Scots, or p. 100, vol. v. of Burton’s History of Scotland, will be found the report on which this tale i... ...men with whom great ladies were wont to surround themselves. There she met Richard T albot, the second son of a relative of the Earl of Shrewsbury, a ... ...aid he would look in to see how you fared.” “At supper-time, I trow,” said Richard, rather grimly, “the smell of thy stew will bring him down in good ... ... “Scarce while he hath good wives like thee to boil his pot for him,” said Richard, smiling. “T ell me, hath he heard aught of this gear? thou hast no... ...t to her in her sorrow; but there was no lack of cordiality or courtesy in Richard’s manner when, after a short, quick knock, there entered a figure i... ...him. “And you have been a good friend to my poor wife in her sorrow,” said Richard, “for the which I thank you heartily, sir.” “T ruly, sir, I could h... ...plied for the use of her household. There is an hon- est man, a brewer, at Burton, whom Paulett will employ, who will provide that letters be sent to ... ...deliver from captivity! No, no, sir! ’Twas thus. There’s an honest man at Burton, a brewer, who sends beer week by week for this house, and very good... ...f these traitors. He had been instructed in Gifford’s arrangement with the Burton brewer for conveying letters to Mary at Chartley, and had been made ...

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...en ‘em sweatin’ big drops. I heard Oke (the Common-room butler) talking to Richards (Prout’s house-servant) about it down in the basement the other da... ...ine boys, an’ his’n be dom bad.’ Well, Oke talked like that, you know, and Richards got awf’ly wrathy. He has a down on King for something or other. W... ...eems to be some disability attaching to you, my Beetle, or else why should Burton major withdraw, so to speak, the hem of his garments? I confess I am... ... out from the wall to the left of the dormer window, and the latter end of Richards protruding from a two-foot-square cupboard in the wall. “What’s al... ...fore. What are you tryin’ to do, Fatty?” “Fillin’ basins, Muster Corkran.” Richards’s voice was hol- low and muffled. “They’ve been savin’ me trouble.... ...it,” said McT urk. “Hi! You’ll stick if you don’t take care.” Stalky & Co Richards backed puffing. “I can’t rache un. Yiss, ‘tess a turncock, Muster ... ... I thought he was goin’ to kill me when I sniffed just now. He didn’t mind Burton major sniffin’ at me the other day, though. He never stopped Alexand... ... just as I was sittin’ down, I whispered, ‘How is our learned Lepsius?’ to Burton major. Old Butt grinned like an owl. He didn’t know what I was drivi...

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..., the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rat... ...said briefly and emphatically , “I speak ever French, the language of King Richard and his nobles; but I understand English sufficiently to communicat... ...rthe- less—” “I think, friend Cedric,” said W amba, interfering, “that had Richard of the Lion’s Heart been wise enough to have taken a fool’s advice,... ... sword in defence of the Holy Land. I say besides, for I saw it, that King Richard himself, and five of his knights, held a tournament after the takin... ...onour as in arms, in renown as in place,” said the Pilgrim, “was the brave Richard, King of England.” “I forgive him,” said Cedric; “I forgive him his... ...t Wittol, or Withold, or whatever they call that churl of a Saxon Saint at Burton-on-T rent. Next day’s march brings them within our reach, and, falco... ...“In my mind,” said Athelstane, upon whose memory the Abbot’s good ale (for Burton was already famous for that genial liquor) had made a favourable imp... ...ks, smacks of a Saxon tongue?” “I was bred in the convent of St Withold of Burton,” an- swered Cedric. “Ay?” said the Baron; “it had been better for t... ...my purpose too; but need has no choice of messengers. That St Withold’s of Burton is a howlet’s nest worth the harrying. The day will soon come that t...

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...pent the Christmas, in which he attained the age of two and twenty. Louisa Burton was the Daughter of a distant Relation of Mrs. Drummond, who dieing ... ...or each other than Henry and Eloisa; no, the Love of your Brother for Miss Burton could not be so strong tho’ it might be more violent. You may imagi... ...n in the year 1399, after having pre- vailed on his cousin and predecessor Richard the 2nd, to resign it to him, and to retire for the rest of his lif... ...w his picture. He was murdered by his Uncle’s Contrivance, whose name was Richard the 3rd. RIC RIC RIC RIC RICHARD t HARD t HARD t HARD t HARD the 3r... ... was really the Duke of York, why might not Lambert Simnel be the Widow of Richard. Whether innocent or guilty, he did not reign long in peace, for ...

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...litical opinions had early separated the Baronet from his younger brother, Richard Waverley, the fa- ther of our hero. Sir Everard had inherited from ... ..., which had distinguished the house of Waverley since the Great Civil War. Richard, on the contrary, who was ten years younger, beheld himself born to... ... analyse the mixed motives which unite to form the impulse of our actions. Richard Waverley read and satis- fied himself, from history and sound argum... ...have probably been unable to combat and remove hereditary prejudice, could Richard have anticipated that his elder brother, Sir Everard, taking to hea... ...led him to endure dragging through the greater part of his life as ‘Master Richard at the Hall, the baronet’s brother,’ in the hope that ere its concl... ...of Tully-Veolan like an hypochondriac person, or, as 273 Sir Walter Scott Burton’s Anatomia hath it, a phrenesiac or lethargic patient, you would won...

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... cloak must shear from the slaughtered deer, To keep the cold away.’ ‘O Richard! if my brother died, ‘T was but a fatal chance; For darkling was... ...As warm, we’ll say, is the russet gray, As gay the forest-green. ‘ And, Richard, if our lot be hard, And lost thy native land, Still Alice has h... ..., if our lot be hard, And lost thy native land, Still Alice has her own Richard, And he his Alice Brand.’ 67 Sir Walter Scott XIII. Ballad Cont... ...Lady Alice is singing; On the beech’s pride, and oak’s brown side, Lord Richard’s axe is ringing. Up spoke the moody Elfin King, Who woned withi... ...ds have stilled their singing; The evening blaze cloth Alice raise, And Richard is fagots bringing. Up Urgan starts, that hideous dwarf, Before ... ...cestors, and the heart of Bruce deposited in the church of Melrose Abbey” (Burton’s Hist. of Scotland). 146 The Lady of the Lake 201. Fair. The 1st e...

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...“The first good town we come to we’ll hire a hall and do the sword fight in Richard III. and the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. How does that st... ...out two or three curtain calico suits, which he said was meedyevil armor for Richard III. And t’other chap, and a long white cotton nightshirt and a r... ... oak laths, and begun to practice the sword fight — the duke called himself Richard III.; and the way they laid on and pranced around the raft was g... ...and blood-curdling Broad-sword conflict In Richard III. ! ! ! Richard III.............Mr. Garrick ... ...to be any; and you couldn’t go if there was; because the runaway nigger told Burton and me all about that scandalous show, and Burton said he would t...

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... myself, certainly not the goodliest man of men since born my brothers; 6. Richard, known to us all by the house- hold name of Pink, who in his after ... ...tle distance, and utterly abstracted from all around him, my next brother, Richard, he that had caused so much affliction by his incorrigible morals t... ...ight.”—The greatest scholar, by far, that this island ever produced, viz., Richard Bentley, pub- lished (as is well known) a 4to volume that in some r... ...ars, however, from the Life of Hume, by my distin- guished friend Mr. Hill Burton, that already, in the middle of the last century, the historian acco...

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..., ‘a quiet and gentlemanly man,’ was told that his brother in law, a Captain Burton, had threat ened to kill him. Burton, t seems, had already killed... ... while; and one day they got themselves up in cheap royal finery and did the Richard III swordfight with maniac energy and prodigious powwow, in the p...

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...thor, the reader will receive satisfaction from the first pages of the book. RICHARD SYMPSON. A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GULLIVER TO HIS COUSIN SYMPSON. WR... ...er my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Bur ton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate street, with whom I received four hundred poun...

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...ouches a drop of foreign wine by any chance (tremendous plaudits). ‘Thomas Burton is purveyor of cat’s meat to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and severa... ...ur names, gentlemen, that you may be sworn,’ said the gentleman in black. ‘Richard Upwitch.’ ‘Here,’ said the greengrocer. ‘Thomas Groffin.’ ‘Here,’ s... ... He had never had a sword in his hand before, ex cept once when he played Richard the Third at a private theatre, upon which occasion it was arranged...

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...i- coat strings hanging out. I don’t know why I pay such high wages to Mrs Richards, if she can’t take the trouble to see whether or no you are fit to... ...in way and on certain sub- jects. His favourite authors were Montaigne and Burton, and he knew more perhaps than any other man in his own county, and ...

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...’s House and the author was Henrik Ibsen. Professor Erlin classed him with Richard Wagner , but of him he spoke not with anger but with good- humoured... ... with laughter. Not a melody in it from beginning to end! He could imagine Richard Wagner sitting in his box and laughing till his sides ached at the ... ...ip wondered what this could mean. He took a book and began to read. It was Burton’s Jour- ney to Meccah, which he had just got out of the Westminster ... ...m with horror, he had been so wretched in them; he tried once more to read Burton’s book, but, as he read, he told him- self again and again what a fo...

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... Two Years Before the Mast by Richard HENRY DANA 1840 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Lang... ...ect in the world as a landsman beginning a - 1 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana sailor’s life. At length those peculiar, longdrawn ... ...y bidding ‘‘good night’’ to my native land. - 2 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana CHAPTER II — FIRST IMPRESSIONS—’’SAIL HO!’’ The f... ..., and the hatch was quickly shut again. When - 3 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana I got upon deck, a new scene and a new experience wa... ...hat I had rather wait till after breakfast; - 4 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana but I knew that I must ‘‘take the bull by the horns,’... ...rowing wood on deck; and had a dispute with the mate about reeving a Spanish burton; the mate saying that he was right, and had been taught how to do ...

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...OTSPUR, his son. (HOTSPUR:) EDMUND MORTIMER: Earl of March. (MORTIMER:) RICHARD SCROOP: Archbishop of York. (ARCHBISHOP OF YORK:) ARCHIBALD: Ear... ...OP OF YORK:) ARCHIBALD: Earl of Douglas. (DOUGLAS:) OWEN GLENDOWER : SIR RICHARD VERNON : (VERNON:) SIR JOHN FALSTAFF : (FALSTAFF:) SIR MICHAEL: ... ...rtimer. EARL OF WORCESTER : I cannot blame him: was not he proclaim’d By Richard that dead is the next of blood? NORTHUMBERLAND: He was; I heard th... ...scandalized and foully spoken of. HOTSPUR: But soft, I pray you; did King Richard then Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer Heir to the crown? NORTHUM... ... in an unjust behalf, As both of you—God pardon it!—have done, To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, An plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbr... ...he parting of your wives and you. HOTSPUR: Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here, In quantity equals not one of yours: See how this river comes ...

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...o brightly illuminated with variegated lamps, and pots of burning fat, is ‘Richardson’s,’ where you have a melo- drama (with three murders and a ghost... ...ection of how it was they did not get home. CHAPTER XIII—PRIVATE THEATRES ‘RICHARD THE THIRD.—DUKE OF GLO’STER 2L.; EARL OF RICHMOND, 1L; DUKE OF BUCK... ...icult, and somewhat unusual, to introduce this effect in the last scene of Richard the Third, so the only thing to be done, is, just to make the best ... ...urprising theatrical an- nouncements. These gentlemen are the amateurs—the Richards, Shylocks, Beverleys, and Othellos—the Young Dorntons, Rovers, Cap... ...f omission and com- mission—neglecting to call, and persisting in drinking Burton Ale—astonishes everybody into convulsions of laughter by volunteerin...

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...o brightly illuminated with variegated lamps, and pots of burning fat, is ‘Richardson’s,’ where you have a melo- drama (with three murders and a ghost... ...ection of how it was they did not get home. CHAPTER XIII—PRIVATE THEATRES ‘RICHARD THE THIRD.—DUKE OF GLO’STER 2L.; EARL OF RICHMOND, 1L; DUKE OF BUCK... ...icult, and somewhat unusual, to introduce this effect in the last scene of Richard the Third, so the only thing to be done, is, just to make the best ... ...urprising theatrical an- nouncements. These gentlemen are the amateurs—the Richards, Shylocks, Beverleys, and Othellos—the Young Dorntons, Rovers, Cap... ...f omission and com- mission—neglecting to call, and persisting in drinking Burton Ale—astonishes everybody into convulsions of laughter by volunteerin... ...- guished unknown who condescends to play the ‘swell’ in the pantomime at ‘Richardson’s Show. ’ ‘What whiskers!’ said Miss Julia. ‘Charming!’ responde...

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...ncern of ours.” “Yes, but I want—I wanted—have you ever read The Ordeal of Richard Feverel?” Margaret nodded. “It’s a beautiful book. I wanted to get ... ...s a beautiful book. I wanted to get back to the earth, don’t you see, like Richard does in the end. Or have you ever read Stevenson’s Prince Otto?” He... ..., and he said: “Curious it should all come about from reading something of Richard Jefferies.” “Excuse me, Mr. Bast, but you’re wrong there. It didn’t... ... was a moment’s awkwardness, and both ladies rose to vacate their places. “Burton,” called Henry, “serve tea and cof- fee from the sideboard!” It wasn... ...ay, he must visit the wine-cellar, and they went off together in search of Burton. Though clumsy and a little inconvenient, Oniton was a genuine coun-... ..., and he said: “By your leave; let me pass, please.” Henry asked him where Burton was. But the servants were so new that they did not know one another...

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...ating a variety of local reforms. In 1732 he began to issue his famous “Poor Richard’s Almanac” for the enrichment of which he borrowed or com posed ... ...rks in separate little volumes. I afterward sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton’s Historical Collections; they were small chapmen’s books, and che... ...ship, Family Instructor, and other pieces, has imitated it with success; and Richardson has done the same, in his Pamela, etc. When we drew near the i... ...study and business. In 1732 I first publish’d my Almanack, under the name of Richard Saunders; it was continu’d by me about twenty five years, commonl... ...unders; it was continu’d by me about twenty five years, commonly call’d Poor Richard’s Almanac. I endeavor’d to make it both entertaining and useful, ... ...31 Founds the Philadelphia Library. 1732 Publishes the first number of “Poor Richard’s Alma nac” under the pseudonym of “Richard Saunders.” The Alma ...

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...elight in what I do read never lessens. Of Shakespeare I have read all but Richard III, Henry VI, Titus Andronicus, and All’s Well That Ends Well; and... ...rld is wide, and so are morals. Out of two people who have dipped into Sir Richard Burton’s Thousand and One Nights, one shall have been offended by t... ...ide, and so are morals. Out of two people who have dipped into Sir Richard Burton’s Thousand and One Nights, one shall have been offended by the anima... ...nt may be illustrated still further. The last inter- view between Lucy and Richard Feveril is pure drama; more than that, it is the strongest scene, s...

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...ings and conduct on the occasion were candid and liberal. He requested Mr. Richardson, son of the painter, to endeavour to find out who this new autho... ...son of the painter, to endeavour to find out who this new authour was. Mr. Richardson, after some inquiry, having informed him that he had dis- covere... ...is Lordship by Sir Joshua Reynolds, to whom it was given by the son of Mr. Richardson the painter, the per- son to whom it is addressed. I have transc... ...ritten on a slip no larger than a common message-card, and was sent to Mr. Richardson, along with the Imita- tion of Juvenal. ‘This is imitated by one... ... Hogarth. Johnson used to be a pretty frequent visitor at the house of Mr. Richardson, authour of Clarissa, and other novels of extensive reputa- tion... ...life, for the obscurity, insipidity, and uniformity of remote situations. ‘Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took h... ...any things to which it can fly from itself. 326 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy is a valuable work. It is, perhaps, overload... ...erloaded with quotation. But there is great spirit and great power in what Burton says, when he writes from his own mind.’ Next morning we visited Dr....

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...man if I do not see the back of volume six. The countryman of Livingstone, Burton, Speke, Drake, Cook, etc.! I have been sweated not only out of my pl... ...l of Glenure, 1752); if he has none, perhaps you could see – O yes, see if Burton has it in his two vols. of trial stories. I hope he hasn’t; but care... ...dy, April Rain, is also a late work. Beckett is a fine ranting piece, like Richard II., but very fine for the stage. Irving is to play it this autumn ...

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... former period was spent in Maysville, Kentucky, at- tending the school of Richardson and Rand; the latter in Ripley, Ohio, at a private school. I was... ...o believe it—but I cast no 9 U. S. Grant reflections upon my old teacher, Richardson. He turned out bright scholars from his school, many of whom hav... ...y. Of those who “went south,” and attained high rank, there was Lieutenant Richard Anderson, who commanded a corps at Spottsylvania; Captain Sibley, a... ...that the question whom to accept was quite embarrass- ing to the governor, Richard Yates. The legislature was in session at the time, however, and cam... ... the 4th of September I removed my headquarters to Cairo and found Colonel Richard Oglesby in command of the post. We had never met, at least not to m... ...ll. Brig.-Gen. Henry J. Hunt, commanding Artillery. Reserve, Col. H. S. Burton. First Brigade, Col. J. H. Kitching. Second Brigade, Maj. ...