At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-Book of Life, Scenery and Men (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 1331266041
- ISBN-13
- 9781331266044
- Series
- At Home and Abroad
- Pages
- 530
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-07-12
- Author
- Bayard Taylor
Description
Excerpt from At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-Book of Life, Scenery and Men It the first place, it runs in the blood. If there is any law I believe in, it is that of the hereditary transmission of traits, qualities, capacities, and passions. My father is a farmer; my grandfather was, and his father before him, and his, and his again, to the seventh ancestor, who came over in one of William Penn's vessels, and immediately set about reducing the superfluous sylvanism of that Apostle's Sylvania. If I could brush away the clouds which hang about this portion of the genealogical tree, I have no doubt but that I should find its trunk striking through cottages or country halls for some centuries further; and that "Roger, (ob. 1614, ) the son of Thomas, the son of Roger," who wore the judicial ermine upon his escutcheon, had his favorite country-house in the neighborhood of London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
