Genealogies of the Potter Families and Their Descendants in America to the Present Generation: With Historical and Biographical Sketches - Couverture souple

Potter, Charles Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1176440608 ISBN 13 : 9781176440609

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Doubtless family histories are too often mere genealogical compilations in which the dry statistics of births, marriages, and deaths are interspersed with pointless anecdotes and indiscriminate praise. Possibly the recent profusion of such works has created a prejudice against the entire class of writings to which they belong ;and men of discretion and self-respect have, in truth, some reason for dreading the appearance of a history of their own family, lest it should prove to be little more than a monument of bad judgment and bad taste. And yet the fact remains, that when a name has been illustrated for many generations by those who have borne it, when the history of a family is the history of the great events and a portrayal of the shining virtues which have made mankind better and happier, then the natural pride which loves to pay a tribute to the living, and to preserve a memorial of the dead, may find becoming expression in a permanent form. Such a history should be scrupulously accurate as regards names, dates, and relationships ;but its integrity in a broader sense should be not less conspicuous. It should be, what too many similar compilations are not, a faithful record of virtues which have really existed, and of services and achievements which have actually been performed, and not a succession of glowing pages in which all degrees of merit are equalized on one broad stream of praise. Such a volume, the work of judgment, taste, and conscience, must have an undoubted claim upon those for whom it is primarily designed. S or could it fail to find a cordial welcome in a larger circle ;for the services and distinctions of an illustrious family can never be a matter of indifference to the world. Such a family is the Potter Family of A merica, and such a history it is the compilers earnest purpose to produce. The population which settled New England and ma
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1176440608
• ISBN 13: 9781176440609
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 428