"Olmsted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... anguish. . . . If by hard study and good conduct I can atone for that, God in heaven knows that I shall not be found wanting. . . . Not a night passes but what the supplication, God bless my parents, ascends to the great mercy seat." At another time he writes for the following books: Olmsted's Philosophy, Blair's Rhetoric, Cicero de Oratore, and an Analytical Geometry. He already has some Greek tragedies which he is to study. Contemplating his junior year, he writes: "I feel quite enthusiastic on the subject of ...
— Sidney Lanier • Edwin Mims
... Maine. Samuel Burkleo, Delaware. William H. Forbes, Montreal. James McBoal, Pennsylvania. David B. Loomis, Connecticut. John Rollins, Maine. David Olmsted, Vermont. William Sturgis, Upper Canada. Martin ...
— The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier • Charles E. Flandrau
... life of Eli Whitney is the "Memoir" by Denison Olmsted (1846), and a collection of Whitney's letters about the cotton gin may be found in "The American Historical Review", vol. III (1897). "Eli Whitney and His Cotton Gin," by M. F. Foster, is included in the "Transactions of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association", no. ...
— The Age of Invention - A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest, Book, 37 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Holland Thompson |
