American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818-March 14, 1883) was a German philosopher, economist and revolutionary. He was known for founding the theory of Communism. He wrote: The Communist Manifesto, 1848; The Class Struggles in France, 1850; The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852; A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859; and Das Kapital, 1867. Karl Marx attended the University of Berlin, where he became involved with the radical anti-religious group, the Young Hegelians. After being refused a university post because of his radical views, Karl Marx began publishing a paper in 1842, which was banned in Germany. He fled...

James Anthony Froude (April 23, 1818-October 20, 1894) was an English historian. He was a professor at Oxford and published the History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, in twelve volumes. James Anthony Froude professed: <The Bible, thoroughly known, is literature in itself-the rarest and richest in all departments of thoughts and imagination which exists.> 1818JF001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1818JF001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). James Anthony Froude. Tryon Edwards, D.D., The New Dictionary of Thoughts-A Cyclopedia...

John Mason Neale (January 24, 1818-August 6, 1866) was an English poet and language scholar, knowing over 20 languages. In 1842, he was ordained a clergyman and translated many hymns from their original Greek and Latin tongues. Many Christmas hymns were written or translated by him, including: Jerusalem the Golden; The Day is Past and Over; Come, Ye Faithful; and the favorite Good King Wenceslas: <Good King Wenceslas looked out On the feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even.> 1818JN001 In 1861, John Mason Neale translated the twelfth century Latin hymn, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel...

James Thomas Fields (December 31, 1817-April 2, 1881) was the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1862-70. His father was a sea captain and died before Fields was three. Fields was friends with William Wordsworth, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and others. He was also a contemporary of Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Edwin Percy Whipple, James Russell Lowell, and Samuel Gridley Howe. After Fields's death, his friend Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem called "Auf Wiedersehen" dedicated to him. In The Captain's Daughter; or The Ballad of the Tempest, written in 1858, James...

Mississippi (December 10, 1817) was the 20th State admitted to the Union. The U.S. Congress, March 1, 1817, during the administration of President James Monroe, passed The Enabling Act for Mississippi, which required the government being formed in that territory to be: <...not repugnant to the principles of the [Northwest Ordinance].> 1817MS001 The Northwest Ordinance stated: <Article III. Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.> 1817MS002 The Constitution of the State of Mississippi, adopted 1817, stated: <Article IX, Section 16. Religion, morality, and knowledge,...