American Bookmen; Sketches, Chiefly Biographical, of Certain Writers of the Nineteenth Century
The book American Bookmen; Sketches, Chiefly Biographical, of Certain Writers of the Nineteenth Century was written by author Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960 Here you can read free online of American Bookmen; Sketches, Chiefly Biographical, of Certain Writers of the Nineteenth Century book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is American Bookmen; Sketches, Chiefly Biographical, of Certain Writers of the Nineteenth Century a good or bad book?
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Ot all the men of thought and letters v,'ho con- tributed in a greater and less degree to this distinc- tion of the town, Thoreau was the only one who was born in Concord. Yet Emerson, by every right of inheritance, was more truly its son. The town was founded by a direct ancestor, the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, who came to America in 1634. His granddaughter married an Emerson, a mimster, who died in Concord in 1680; and his grandson, William Emerson, the minister ot the town at the beginning of the ...Ivevolution and the first occupant of the " Old Manse," was the grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose father was anotlier F».ev. William Emerson, minister of the First Cliurch in Boston. Made up of ministers and graduates of Elarvard College, the race was eminently of the ] HOREAU AT '] ~ . From an engraving ut the craynn drawing In' Ruwse. EMERSON AND CONCORD 179 sort which Dr. Holmes defined as academic. Ralph Waldo, born in Boston on May 25, 1803, was the fourth of eight children. Two girls and a boy died in early childhood, and of the boys that remained, their remarkable aunt, Mary Moody Emerson, well said, " They were born to be educated." This was no easy end for their mother to achieve in the straitened days that followed the death of the Rev.
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