Francis Lieber
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ..
Letter to His Excellency Patrick Noble, Governor of South Carolina, on the penitentiary system
Addresses of the newly-appointed professors of Columbia College
Instructions for the government of armies of the United States, in the field
Like a sponge thrown into water
""I live the life of a long dried sponge thrown into water," enthused the celebrated intellectual Francis Lieber (1798-1872) in a letter from Paris to his friend, the future Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner. In that letter, Lieber, a scholar well known on both sides of the Atlantic, described his joyous return to Europe in 1844 after two decades teaching and working in the United States. During his ten-month sabbatical, Lieber gloried in Europe's people, places, art, theater, and diversity. With passionate attention to detail, he not only wrote letters to his friends but also chronicled his travels in a diary. Lieber's previously unpublished account of these months, including passages translated from their original German, offers a fast-paced and exciting picture of the European culture and political milieu of the 1840s. The diary provides insights into the remarkable person who kept it."--BOOK JACKET.