Word: shipwreck
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Erechtheum. Between two and three hundred more were engaged several months in remov-these marbles from the Acropolis and lower city, so that when Lord Elgin stopped at Athens on his return to England be found two hundred cases ready for shipment. Some of them were lost by shipwreck in the Mediterranean and it was not until 1812 that all were safely landed in England. At first these were coolly received, owing to the people being engaged in hostilities with France, but finally when peace was restored they were favorably received. In his report to parliament Lord Elgin estimated...
...Tuscany have been given to this department. The department of Biography has been enlarged by Peigrot's French Biography; Politics, by Carson's work on the Centennial of the Constitution. To the department of Poetry have been added Hartsome's edition of the "Ancient Nutrical Tales," Falkoner's Shipwreck, and a new edition of Wadsworth. To Art, three volumes of Jackson's Dalmatic; and to Fiction, another edition of Poe's works have been given...
...Davis. It consists of an exhaustive discussion of the facts concerning the famous Banque Generale. It seems a singular freak of Providence that Sieur Law, the son of a Scotch goldsmith, should have been the man to suggest a way to help the French government out of financial shipwreck, in the early part of the eighteenth century. Law spent the early part of his life in roaming about Europe gambling and duelling and all the time turning over in his brain scheme after scheme for revolutionizing the financial world by introducing a credit system different from any then known. Finally...