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QUINCEY 



QUINET 



its 

 See 



in a commercial sense U as a stock on which to 



bad or graft the pear. Many choice kinds of |>ear 



succeed Ix'ltrr 

 when united to 

 it than wlirii 

 t h e y are 

 grafted on the 

 true pear- 

 f, t o c k. In 

 S-otlond the 

 fruit seldom 

 ripens except 

 on a wall. 

 The Japanese 

 Quince (C. 

 japonic a, 

 lietter known 

 by its older 

 name, Pyrus 

 japonica ), a 

 low bush, a 

 native of 

 Japan, but 

 perfectly hard^ 

 in Britain, is 

 often to be 

 Been trained 

 Flowering Branch of Quince against walls, 



(C.vdoniavulgaru): being very 



o,rlpfrult; b, notion of do. ornamental 



(Beutlcy and Trimen.) from the pro- 



fusion of 



beautiful flowers, usually a rich red in colour. 



Meech's Quince Culture (New York, 1888). 



Qulnoey, DE. See DE QUINCEY. 



tyiiinry. (1) the third city of IllinpU, and 

 capital of Adams county, is on the Mississippi 

 River, 160 miles above St Louis and 262 by rail 

 S\V. of Chicago. It is handsomely built on a 

 high Mull', has a large trade by tlie river and 

 extensive railway connections, an important rail- 

 way bridge crossing the river at this point. The 

 public buildings include a fine court-house, a medi- 

 cal college, several hospitals and asylums, an 

 Bpicoopw cathedral, and some forty other churches. 

 Tne city bus many large. Hour-mills, machine-shops, 

 foundries, sjiw- and planing- mills, lireweries, and 

 manufactories producing stoves, furniture, car- 

 riages, tobacco, A:c. l'o|'. (1890) 31,494; (1900) 

 :;. _:._'. -(2) A town of Masachiisctt-, near the 

 sea, and 8 miles S. of Boston !>y rail. The town- 

 ship produces the famous (juincy granite, and was 

 the birthplace of John Hancock, John Adams, and 

 his son, John Quiiicy Adams. Pop. ( IWM)) {,899. 

 (Jiiiticy city is co-extensive with the town. 



Quincy, JOSIAH, an American orator and man 

 of Tetters, and son of Josiah Quincv (1744-75), an 

 eloquent advocate of the rights of the colonists, 

 was born at Boston, February 4, 1772, graduated 

 at Harvard in 1790, and was called to the bar in 

 IT'.W. II'- took an active interest in politics as 

 a leading mcmlier of the Federal party in New 

 England, and was elected in 1804 to congress, 

 where he became distinguished as a ready, earnest, 

 and fervent orator. He was one of the earliest to 

 denounce slavery, but his most remarkable speech 

 wan one in whicli, spurred on by the jealousy with 

 which the old New England colonies regarded the 

 new western states, he declared that the admission 

 of Louisiana would lie a sufficient cause for the, 

 dissolution of the union, and that, 'as it would 

 be the right of all, so it would lie the duty of some, 

 to prepare definitely for a separation peaceably 

 if they could, violently if they must.' Disgusted 

 with the triumph of the Democratic party and the 

 war of 1812, he declined a re-election to congress, 

 and devoted his attention for a while to agriculture. 



He was, however, a member of the Massachusetts 

 legislature during most of the next ten years, served 

 as mayor of Boston from 1823 to 1828, and in 1829 

 accepted the post of president of Harvard, which 

 he held until IS4.V His remaining years were 

 siM-nt in quiet literary work, and he died at Quincy, 

 July 1, Isiil. Among bis puhlislrcd works are 

 Memoirs of his father (1825) and of J. Q, Adams 

 ( 1858), and histories of Harvard University ( 1840), 

 of the Boston Athennmm (1851), and of Boston 

 (1852). His Speeches were edited (1874) by his 

 son, Edmund Quincy (1808-77), who was secret an 

 of the American Anti-slavery Society, and con- 

 tributed largely to the Abolitionist press. 



QuinctU EDGAR, a great French writer, was 

 born of an old Catholic family at Bourg in tin 

 department of Ain, February 17, 1803. His mother, 

 whose dreamy and emotional nature he inherited, 

 was a Protestant. In 1806 the child was carried 

 by his mother to join his father, then Commissioner 

 of the Army of the Rhine, and he spent great part 

 of his boyhood in the remote and dreary solitudes 

 of Certines near Bourg. His parents were both 

 ardent republicans, hating the very name of 

 Najioleon. Accordingly the boy early made him a 

 hero in his heart ; but as he grew up a passion for 

 liberty superseded his first love. He was educated 

 at the colleges of Bourg and Lyons (1817-20), and 

 next went to Paris; but refusing to take the course 

 for a soldier at the Ecole Polytechnique, he pub- 

 lished in justification of his choice of a profession 

 Let Tablette* du Juif Errant in 1823. He found the 

 spiritual impulse that he needed in an English 

 translation of Herder's Philosophy of History, 

 and this he determined to translate into French, 

 although he had first to learn German to do so. 

 He published the book in 1825, and his remarkable 

 Introduction procured him the friendship of Cousin, 

 at whose house he met Michelet, for fifty years the 

 'brother of his heart and mind.' He had already 

 travelled in Germany, Italy, and England, when in 

 1829 he was appointed to a post on a government 

 mission to Greece. The fruit of his travels was La 

 Greet Moderne ( 1830). A speculative republican of 

 ideas, one of the earliest writers for the Revue ties 

 Deux Mondes, and a student before their time of the 

 old Chansons de Geste, Quinet played a conspicuous 

 part in the Paris of his day, ana made his name 

 known licyoiid its walls by his Ahasvtrtu ( 1833), a 

 kind of spiritual imitation of the ancient mysteries, 

 in which the Wandering Jew stands as an emblem 

 of humanity in its hopeless groping for certainty 

 and rest. In 1834 he married, and next produced 

 his less successful poems, KajMtlfun (18301 and 

 Promtthfe ( 1838). These three works fall naturally 

 into a kind of trilogy, in which Ahasuerus rcpre- 

 sents the race, Napoleon the individual, and 

 Prometheus the martyr, typical of the religions 

 leader. In 1838 he published his Examen de la Vie 

 de J(stts, in which he shows that Strauss is too 

 analytic to detect the true principle of life in the 

 gos|ls. Quinet's deepest conviction was that 

 religion is the very substance of humanity, that the 

 true founders of society have been teachers like 

 Xoroaster ami Moses, ami that Christianity itself is 

 the apotheosis of personality. 



Appointed in 1839 professor of Foreign Literature 

 at Lyons, he liegan those lectures which afterwards 

 formed his brilliant book, f)n Genie des Keligiont 

 (1842). He was now recalled to Paris to the 

 chair of ' Littcratures Meridionales ' at the College 

 de France, and here for four years he lectured to a 

 crowd of enthusiastic disciples on such themes a- 

 the revolutions in Italy, the Jesuits, I'ltraniontan 

 ism, and Christianity in relation to the French 

 Revolution. He joined Michelet in attacking the 

 Jesuits, and his epigrammatic eloquence, added to 

 the enthusiasm and earnestness of his convictions. 



