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burgh and London, he won the respect of such congenial spirits 

 as Goethe and Humboldt, Sir Walter Scott, Francis Jeffrey, Words- 

 worth, Lord Byron, Southey, Lord Holland, and Sir James Mack- 

 intosh. 



In Paris, he was intimate with Madame de Stael and her family and 

 the Lafayettes, and in Madrid with the foreign diplomatists and some 

 of the best Spanish scholars. 



In 1820, he returned home and entered upon the duties of the pro- 

 fessorship of French and Spanish Literature, to which he had been 

 appointed in 1817. 



Mr. Ticknor's lectures, and those of Edward Everett, formed an era 

 in the history of the college ; and from his intimate acquaintance with 

 many of the ripest scholars, and with the highest scientific and literary 

 institutions in the most advanced of the nations of Europe, he was able 

 to present views which now prevail, and arouse a spirit which is now 

 everywhere felt among us. 



In 1821, he married Anne, daughter of Samuel Eliot, an eminent 

 merchant of Boston. 



In 1823, Mr. Ticknor published a syllabus of his course of thirty 

 four lectures upon Spanish literature, in the introduction to which he 

 expresses the hope so satisfactorily fulfilled, that he should, " by the 

 labors of future years, supply the deficiencies on a subject so new, so 

 important, and so interesting." 



In 1825, Mr. Ticknor published " Remarks on the changes lately 

 proposed or adopted in Harvard University," which, if they could all 

 have been speedily adopted, would probably have rendered unnecessary 

 several of the institutions which have since gone into operation in Bos- 

 ton and its neighborhood. In the same year Mr. Ticknor, to gratify a 

 friend, caused to be reprinted in a little volume, with additions, from 

 the pages of the North American Review, " Outlines of the Principal 

 Events in the Life of General Lafayette," which Edward Everett calls 

 " Mr. Ticknor's beautiful sketch of the life of Lafayette." A French 

 translation of this, was, in the same year, printed in Paris. 



In 1827, he wrote a memoir to accompany ihe remains of R. A. 

 Haven, of which an excellent judge says, "It is such a portrait as his 

 friends delight to recognize, such as all wish to resemble, and yet such 

 as his worst enemy could not help allowing to be just." 



In 1832 he delivered, before the American Institute of Instruction, 

 a lecture on the " Best Methods of Teaching the Living Languages," 



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