. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. iety of literaryand philosophical subjects. He pub-lished a volume of essays in 1841,and contributed to the Dial, the organof the Transcenden
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. iety of literaryand philosophical subjects. He pub-lished a volume of essays in 1841,and contributed to the Dial, the organof the Transcendentalists, in 1841, andbecame its editor from 1842 to 1844. He published a second series of essays in 1844, and in 1840 a collec-tion of his poems, lie visited England and lectured there in 1847, andin 1850 gave the world his volume on * Representative Men. Afterthat he published several other works. Emersons philosophy wastranscendental, having reference to those beliefs or principles whichare not derived from experience, and yet are considered absolutelynecessary to make experience useful or possible.( Webster.) For ex-ample, two of its cardinal articles of faith declare (1) the eternaland universal primacy of mind, and (2) the connection of the individ-ual intellect with 1 he primal mind, and its ability to draw thencewisdom, will, virtue, prudence, lieroism, and all active and passivequalitieB. (Bennett.) Died at Concord. Mass., April 27, WENDELL PHILLIPS. N eminent American orator and philanthropist, Wendell Phillips,was born at Boston, in 1811. He was educated at Harvard college,graduating in 1831. He was admitted to the bar in 1834, butabandoned his profession at the end of two years to unite himself withthe fortunes of the abolitionists, in opposition to slavery in first distinguished outburst of oratory was made at FaneuilHall, Boston, in 1837, at a meeting called to express the popularindignation at the assassination of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, at Alto
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