Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . was pub-lished at Innspruck, was prohibited by the Austrian government in 1814, prob-ably on account of the liberal ideas and patriotic sentiments which it body, however, is now buried at Innspruck, in the splendid cathedral ofthe place, in consequence of the general wish of the people, who revere himas a martyr. An imme
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . was pub-lished at Innspruck, was prohibited by the Austrian government in 1814, prob-ably on account of the liberal ideas and patriotic sentiments which it body, however, is now buried at Innspruck, in the splendid cathedral ofthe place, in consequence of the general wish of the people, who revere himas a martyr. An immense concourse of Tyroleans followed the removal ofhis remains to the tomb, over which the statue represented in our engravinghas been erected. It is of pure white Carrara marble, is eight feet high, andstands on a block of white marble, also about eight feet high. This simple andnoble statue of Hofer heightens in no small degree the sublime effect producedupon a visiter to the cathedral of the Holy Cross, the unrivalled mausoleumin which his remains repose. The death of Hofers widow occurred as recently as 1836. She was in herseventy-second year: she had lived in retirement with her daughters fiom thetime of her husbands execution. 464 JOHN QUINCY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, the sixth president of the United States, was born OHthe llth day of July, 1767, at the family mansion of his father, John Adams, inQuincy, Massachusetts, and christened by the name of John Quincy, after hisgreat-grandfather, who was a distinguished citizen of the province about thecommencement of the eighteenth century. At the age of eleven years, he ac-companied his father to France, and received the daily caresses and instructionsof Doctor Franklin and other distinguished men there. Thus he in a measureentered public life in early childhood. In 1780, he again accompanied hisfather to France. He went to school a short time in Paris ; and on the removalof his father to Holland, he was sen
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