Identifier: illustratedbiogr00sava (find matches)
Title: Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Savage, Charles C., 1820-1907
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: Buffalo, Phinney & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nd, and tell the tale of their sin and suffering. Twoships were subsequently sent out to learn the fate of Hudson, and possibly re-lieve him. They returned the next year, having failed in their object. No tidings of Henry Hudson were ever more received. Whether he perse-vered till he reached Cape Digges, and was there murdered by savages ; wheth-er he perished in the ice, or died by famine, or was swallowed by the waves,no man can tell. Whatever was his fate, however, he has left behind him abright and honorable name. Though not a native of our land, his discoveriesmake him ours. His daring adventures were performed in the New World,where we dwell, and therefore our country has not been unmindful of perpetua-ting his memory: she has written his name upon one of her finest streams. Hisbest monument is indeed in this Western World, for it is upon the continent ofNorth America that a bay, a strait, a city, and a river, all bear the name ofHUDSON. VINCENT DE PAUL. 169 -.—-:= ~ rz^^z^g^g
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VINCENT DE PAUL. VINCENT DE PAUL was born in the year 1576, at Ranquines, a little hamletor-Pouy, not far from the Pyrenees. Vincents parents were owners of a cot-tage and some fields ; and he, the third son in a family of six children, wasemployed in his youth to take charge of the few sheep and swine which con-stituted a chief portion of the available property of a poor but industrious house-hold. Vincent, in his youth, exhibited traits of a thoughtful and intelligentmind. He was sent to school in the town of Acqs; and by the time he wassixteen years of age, procured a situation in the family of a magistrate of Pouyas tutor, and was thus enabled to reduce the expenses of his own family incontributing to his education. But his father, on his deathbed, enjoined hisfamily to continue their exertions to enable Vincent to complete his studies. Vincent realized his familys hopes by becoming an eminent man; but they 170 VINCENT DE PAUL. were disappointed in other respects. Many years after

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