Recollections of a Busy Life - Couverture souple

Horace Greeley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0877542961 ISBN 13 : 9780877542964

Editeur : Chelsea House, 1983

Synopsis

(...)" OUR FOLKS AT LONDONDERRY.THE current notion that the Puritans were a sour, morose, ascetic people — objecting, as Macaulay says, to bearbaiting, not that it gave pain to the bear, but that it gave pleasure to the spectator — is not justified by my recollections, nor by the traditions handed down through my mother. The pioneers of Londonderry were so thoroughly Puritan that, while their original framed and well-built meeting-house was finished and occupied in the third year of the settlement, when there were none other but log huts in the township, nearly a century elapsed before any other than a Presbyterian or Orthodox Congregational sermon was preached therein, and nobody that was anybody adhered to any rival(...)"

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chelsea House
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0877542961
• ISBN 13: 9780877542964
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 429
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible