A Young People's History of Kentucky for Schools And General Reading
The book A Young People's History of Kentucky for Schools And General Reading was written by author Thompson, Edwin Porter, 1834- [from Old Catalog] Here you can read free online of A Young People's History of Kentucky for Schools And General Reading book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Young People's History of Kentucky for Schools And General Reading a good or bad book?
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George Rogers Clark. — The services rendered by General Clark to Kentucky, to the Avest, indeed to the United States, have been noted. It Avould be impossible to form any TJIK .JACKSON PURCHASE. 201) just estimate of their far-reaching and remarkable conse- ((uonces. In speaking of the early heroes and statesmen of Kentucky it is idle to undertake by comparison to determine their relative worth. Each had his place, and when he acted well his part he was entitled to a niche in the temple of fame... over which no critical tinger has written "this is more worthy than that." The faults and frailties of some may serve as solemn warnings to those who came after them, without dim- ming the luster of their fair deeds as crime would do. Let their failings and their self-imposed misfortunes "be buried with their bones," while their good "lives after them." Clark was born in Allierniarle county, Virginia, November 19th, 1752; grew to numhood without attracting sufficient attention to lead the chroniclers of the time to say much of him or his family, so that Ave know little of his boyhood or his lineage, and little of his education except his showing in ])ublic life that it had by no means l)een wholly neglected.
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