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Old England and New England; In a Series of Views Taken on the Spot

Old England and New England; In a Series of Views Taken on the Spot

Bunn, Alfred

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ISBN10: 115115623X
ISBN13: 9781151156235
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.31 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...listened to and acted upon, and where the Councils of his land laid down those principles which ultimately led, as he believes, to his present position. You might as well ask him to pull down Faneuil Hall. Even the old house in Boston (we believe the oldest in the United States), which has stood the wintry blasts of two hundred years, is looked upon by every person in that city with feelings of great veneration; and we question if any inducement could prevail upon the authorities to raze it to the ground, notwithstanding all their go-a-head doctrines of knocking down anything which lies in their way, as an obstruction to their onward march. They have imbibed the notion that-- There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruined battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower; and impressed with this idea, they would not blast the ruined walls of Ticonderago, or even disturb the wall-flower growing on their summit, though the necessity for a railroad passing through them, however advantageous such scheme might be, called upon them to do so. You might as well ask them to build up a city in Valley Forge; in which undertaking they would fear that the spirit of Washington would rise up before them, and check their impious operations. This is not the case with us, who have such a superfluity of ancient remembrances about us, that we seem always to be devising some plan for getting rid of them. The Goth himself, with his grasping hand and iron hoof of desolation, never inflicted more mischief in his course, than the scions of the Anglo-Norman are guilty of from day to...

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