...Ronald Ray Swick Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Theodosia Burr Alston Ronald Ray Swick Time that devours all things has nearly devoured the memory of Theodosia Burr Alston. Celebrated in her own lifetime as a model of female education, she is today chiefly remembered...

...J. L. Rose The Iliad: Translated from Homer . By Chase Alston Hurd Perry William G. Jr . With Illustrations by Steele Savage. Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1950 . Pp. xix , 470 . $5.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 528 The South Atlantic...

...Robert H. Woody Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston, 1821-1909 . Edited by Childs Arney R. , with an Introduction by Simms Mary Alston Read . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1953 . Pp. xviii , 148 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1956...

... of J. Motte Alston, 1821-1909. Edited by Arney R. Childs, with an Introduction by Mary Alston Read Simms. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1953. Pp. xviii, 148. $4.50. This book gives an interesting and authentic picture of the Carolina low country of a century ago. It was written during...

... to read about the walls of Italy displaying with ubiquitous insistence the slogan Crederet Obbedire, Combattere, and it may raise in his mind questions for which the author has not quite provided the answers. Arthur B. Ferguson. The Iliad: Translated jrom Homer. By Alston Hurd Chase and Wil­ liam G...

... 'e all cas obah-, hebby rain duhfall-, dem cloud roll up-, de t undah bumm-, de lightnin crack! Occasionally, but only occasionally, will be heard the use of ele­ ment to signify the commonest fluid of earth: De bat-o leak. Scipio, 'im looker Mass' Alston.' 'E say, Kinyo swim good?' Yas...

... and six opposed such action. Of the former, four were from the western counties, Deberry, Rencher, Shepperd, and Williams; of the latter, four were from the east, Alston, Dud­ ley, Speight, and Hall. There was thus a large minority among the North Carolina congressmen who were opposed to the western...

... In the course of the Civil War some provisions were made for the more rigid enforcement of this law.t Yet there were slaves who hired their time. In 1863 Henry Hicks, the slave of one Alston, with his owner s consent, formed a partnership in blacksmithing with Henry B. Fitts. They made a good deal that year...

... in this plantation country, it is difficult to make welllaid plans work out smoothly. For example, I had a mule but no wagon; and my Negro foreman, Prince Alston, hinted that his mode of transportation was incomplete. I therefore promised him a wagon to go with the mule. During the summer months I do not live...

..., Randolph had already alienated the northern wing of his party and drawn the fire of a Federalist wit who wrote, But Jacky Randolph, [where is he master Jacky Randolph? Zounds and drab it, I mean the little man who whipped Alston last year, where is he? Gone to make a speech against Judge Chase. Even...

... and Lamb. Alston was born in the Waccamaw region of South Carolina, a narrow strip of land, on which in Revolutionary times sev­ 410 The South Atlantic Quarterly eral patrician families lived in a sort of feudal state. During the Revolution, when some of Marion s troopers, after weeks of hardship...

... Carolina Booklet, mentions a letter received from Mrs. Wm. W. Alston, of Isle of Wight county, Virginia, a granddaughter of Willie Jones, over eighty years of age. She writes: You ask did John Paul Jones change hisname in compli­ ment to my grandfather, Willie Jones. I have always heard that he did...

... described her neighbors and herself as in a dreadful state of excitement, almost wild. The Yankee army are advancing upon Spartanburg we fear. They are now destroying Alston and Columbia. It has been impossible for me to sit or be still or do any quiet thing today. I am nearly crazy. 17 Emily had no need...

... and laggard, flounder­ ing along behind all the other states, rusting in primal igno­ rance, rotting from sire to son, and the only remedy educa­ tion. Once the state had great leaders, such as Chief Justice Henderson, but now pygmies ruled the roost. How can such boobies as Daniel Barringer, Willis Alston...

...): 45. Paisley • Death Scene Protester 883 M.51 Bennett,M. The Australian Aborigine as a Human Being (London: Alston Rivers, 1930). 52 Russell McGregor, Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race...

... of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1799-1801, Jackson, 1942, p. 228). 81 See n. 49, above. Rodney permitted parole testimony to prove Spanish land law in Calvit v. Alston, but refused such testimony on an English grant, on grounds that the records were available in Washington, D. C. (Peter Nelson...