Gratitude

[Fr.; L. Lat. gratitudo - grat us, grateful, thankful.] Quality of being grateful; an emotion of the heart, excited by a favor or benefit received; a sentiment of kindne or good-will towards a benefactor; thankfulne . "The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favors."-Sir R. Walpole. Gratitude, in New Jersey, a village of Su ex co. Gra'try, AUGUSTE JOSEPH ALPHONSE, a French theologian and orator, born at Lille, 1805. He studied mathematics; was admitted to the Ecole Poly technique in 1825; entered the ecclesiastical profe ion; was appointed director of the College of Stan is las in 1841, and Almoner to the École Normale Supérieure in 1846. The public a tion of the third volume of the His to ire de l'École d' A léxandrie , by M. Vacherot, then director of studies at the school, led to a discu ion between them, which terminated in the resignation of M. Vacherot in 1851. The Abbé G. quitted the Normal School in 1851 in order to devote himself, with the Abbé Petetot, to the reconstruction of the Oratorians of the Immaculate Conceрtion, and was appointed profe or of evangelical morality at the Sorbonne, 1863. In addition to his Lettres et Répliques à M. Vacherot, G. published, in 1855-7, a course of philosophy in three parts, under the following titles: -De la Con nai ance de Dieu , Logique , and De la Con nai ance de l'Ame; La Philosophie du Credo, in 1861; Les Sources, in 1861-2; Comment a ire sur l'Evan gile de Saint Matthieu , in 1863; Jésus Christ, Réponse à M. Renan, and Les Sophistes et la Critique , in 1864. Ho was elected to the French Academy in 1867. D. 1872. Grattan, HENRY, a distinguished Irish statesman and orator, B. in Dublin, 1750, graduated at Trinity Coll., and went to London to study and practise the law. In 1772 he was called to the bar in his native country, and three years after entered the Irish House of Commons, where his brilliant eloquence and energetic bearing soon raised him to distinction as a gifted speaker, and won for him the deep veneration of his countrymen. It was not, however, till 1780, that he made that celebrated motion and speech, that nearly intoxicated the Irish nation, and made his name a household-word. In that year, the British Parliament having attempted to frame laws for the sister country, to the humiliation of the Irish Parliament and Executive, G. moved the resolution, which the House immediately seconded, "That the King's most excellent Majesty, and the Irish House of Lords, and Commons, are the only competent powers to make laws to govern Ireland." So enthusiastic was the national feeling on this occasion, that he was voted the sum of $500,000. Of this, however, G. refused to accept more than $250,000. On the union of the two crowns, at the opening of this century, G. took his seat in the Imperial Parliament, first for Malton, and afterwards for Dublin; but, like most of these great orators, the change from College Green to St. Stephen's seemed fatal alike to his eloquence, his prestige, and his power. G. was gentle in his manners, fervid and ornate in his eloquence, a discriminating statesman, an incorruptible patriot, and a most estimable man. D. 1820. Grat'tan, in Michigan, a post-township of Kent county.