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See also:RIPLEY, See also:GEORGE (1802-1880) , See also:American critic and See also:man of letters, was See also:born, at See also:Greenfield, See also:Massachusetts, on the 3rd of See also:October 1802. He graduated first in his class at Harvard in 1823. From 1826 to 184o he was pastor of a Unitarian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church in See also:Boston, subsequently retiring from the active See also:ministry altogether. It was during those years that there See also:grew up in New See also:England that See also:form of thought or See also:philosophy known as See also:Transcendentalism. Ripley was 'prominent, if not the See also:leader, in all See also:practical manifestations of the See also:movement; and it was largely by his earnestness and practical See also:energy that certain of its more tangible results were brought about. The first See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the Transcendental See also:Club was held at his See also:house in See also:September 1836. He was a founder and a See also:chief supporter of the See also:magazine, the See also:Dial, which was the See also:organ of the school from 1841 to 1844. Mostimportant of all, however, he was the originator of " The See also:Brook See also:Farm See also:Institute of See also:Education . and See also:Agriculture." Until the See also:- ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")
abandonment of this experiment in 1847, Ripley was its leader, cheerfully taking upon himself all kinds of tasks, teaching See also:mathematics and philosophy in the school, milking cows and attending to other bucolic duties, and after See also:June 1845 editing the weekly See also:Harbinger, an organ of " association," which he continued to edit in New See also:York from 1847 until it was discontinued in 1849. The failure of Brook Farm (q.v.) See also:left Ripley poor and feeling keenly the defeat of his project; but the event forced him at last to devote himself to that career of See also:literary labour in which the real success of his See also:life was achieved. In 1849 he joined the See also:staff of the New York See also:Tribune, and in a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time became its literary editor. This position, which, through his steadiness, scholarly conservatism and freedom from caprice as a critic, soon became one of See also:great See also:influence, he held until his See also:death in New York See also:City on the 4th of See also:July 1880.
During the greater See also:part of the time of his connexion with the Tribune, Ripley was also an adviser of a prominent See also:publishing house, an occasional contributor to the magazines, and a co-operator in several literary undertakings. The chief of these was the American Cydopaedia, which as the New American Cyclopaedia—so named to distinguish it from See also:Francis See also:Lieber's See also:Encyclopaedia Americana—was issued, under the editorship of Ripley and See also:Charles A. See also:Dana, in 1857-63, a revised edition, with the word " new" dropped from the See also:title, being issued under the same editorship in 1873-76. He also issued, in See also:translation, a See also:series of Specimens of See also:Foreign See also:Standard Literature (14 vols., 1838-42). Ripley was twice married, first in 1827 to See also:Miss See also:Sophia See also:Willard Dana (d. 1861), a daughter of Francis Dana and a conspicuous figure at Brook Farm; and second, in 1865, to a See also:young See also:German widow, Mrs See also:Augusta Schlossberger, who survived him and subsequently married See also:Alphonse Pinede.
A See also:biography of Ripley (Boston, 1882), written by the Rev. O. B. See also:Frothingham, forms one of the volumes of the " American Men of Letters series. (E. L.
End of Article: RIPLEY, GEORGE (1802-1880)
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