"Hudson river" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seen all the sights and were tired of shopping, she remembered that she'd got a niece staying in the country not far away, on the Hudson River. I'd heard Mamma speak of her sister, who, when seventeen, had married a Savant (whatever that is), and had gone to California soon afterwards, because she was delicate. But evidently the change hadn't done her much good, because she died when ...
— My Friend the Chauffeur • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... what is known as the Hudson River School. Its ideas were set and formal, and not very inspiring, aside from the subjects treated. Church was then a young man like Inness, and he was studying in the Hudson River School, but the young grocer struck out a line ...
— Pictures Every Child Should Know • Dolores Bacon
... partisan on the northern frontier. The British authorities in Canada employed Myers, who had become a captain under Rodgers, to seize General Schuyler, Governor Clinton, and other prominent patriots in the region of the Hudson River, as far down as Poughkeepsie. Myers was at the head of the party of Tories and Indians above alluded to, who attempted to carry off Schuyler. I will let the General tell the story of that attempt in the following letter to General ...
— Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... creation. last visit to glacier. receives Monthyon prize. publishes "Systeme Glaciaire". sails for America. arrives in Boston. lectures. their success. visit to New Haven. impressions. American hospitality. Mercantile Library Association. New York. Princeton. Philadelphia. American scientific men. Hudson River. West Point. Albany. lectures on glaciers. American forests. erratic phenomena. medusae and polyps. plans for travel. at East Boston. first birthday in America. on the "Bibb". first dredging. leaves Prussian service. professor at Harvard. removes ...
— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz
... Battery to the Narrows,—a distance of about eight miles more. It is rather under-estimating the capacity of the East River branch to average its available width as low as eighty rods; a mile and a half will be a proportionately moderate estimate for the Hudson River branch; the greatest available width of the Upper Bay is about four miles, in a line from the Long Island to the Staten Island side. If we add to these combined areas the closely adjacent waters in hourly communication ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 • Various
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