| United States. Congress - 1854 - 878 pages
...freedom — that State, of which the great historian, Bancroft, a citizen of Massachusetts, has said: 11 There is no State in The Union, and I know not any in the woild, in whose early history, if [ were a citizen, I could find more of which to be proud, and less... | |
| Horace Bushnell - 1851 - 64 pages
...thoroughly acquainted with the relative character and merit of the American States, not long ago said, — "There is no state in the Union, and I know not any...could find more of which to be proud, and less that 1 should wish to blot." My own conviction is that this early history, though not the most prominent,... | |
| Horace Bushnell - 1864 - 476 pages
...thoroughly acquainted with the relative character and merit of the American States, not long ago said, — " There is no state in the Union, and I know not any...to be proud, and less that I should wish to blot." My own conviction is, that this early history, though not the most prominent, is really the most beautiful... | |
| Joseph M. Wilson - 1867 - 534 pages
...the Puritans, a son of an honored mother, a child of Connecticut, of which George Bancroft has said, "There is no State in the Union, and I know not any...which to be proud and less that I should wish to blot. ' ' Haddam, on tho * A memoir of ROT. Lrxix BIICHIB, DD, is published lu The Pralytcriaa Buiarical... | |
| Mary Brainerd - 1870 - 478 pages
...the Puritans — a son of an honored mother — a child of Connecticut, of which Bancroft has said, ' There is no State in the Union, and I know not any...to be proud, and less that I should wish to blot.' Haddam, on the Connecticut River, was the home of the family. They that are curious in genealogy may... | |
| 1871 - 774 pages
...governments thus established in New England, Mr. Bancroft singles out Connecticut, and says of it: " There is no State in the Union, and I know not any...which to be proud and less that I should wish to blot ' ' Dr. Horace Bushnell says: "Its early history is the most beautiful that was ever permitted to any... | |
| Connecticut. Board of Education - 1876 - 262 pages
...children are born, has no heart in his bosom." After quoting Mr. Bancroft's tribute to Connecticut, " There is no State in the Union and I know not any in the world, in whose early history, if 1 were citizen, I could find more of which to be proud and less that I should wish to blot," Dr. Bushnell... | |
| 1878 - 782 pages
...opinion of all unprejudiced historical students. Mr. Bancroft Bays : " There is no State in the [Jnion, and I know not any in the world, in whose early history,...to be proud, and less that I should wish to blot." Dr. Horace Bushnell says : " Its early history is the most beautiful that was ever permitted to any... | |
| Birdsey Grant Northrup - 1880 - 66 pages
...Massachusetts, biased by no Connecticut predilections says, in language as striking as that of Dr. Bushnell, "There is no State in the Union, and I know not any...to be proud and less that I should wish to blot." The sentiment that honors and cherishes one's birth-place is noble and ennobling. I am aware that a... | |
| William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1899 - 712 pages
...Horace Bushnell, the learned doctor, himself a profound student on history, quotes Bancroft as saying " There is no state in the Union, and I know not any...to be proud, and less that I should wish to blot." And Dr. Bushnell adds, " My own conviction is that this early history, though not the most prominent,... | |
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