A Frontier Town and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)
| Preis: | 15.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Lodge, Henry Cabot) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A Frontier Town and Other Essays "Seventeen hundred and fifty-five, Georgius Secundus was then alive, - Snuffy old drone from the German hive. That was the year when Lisbon town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock´s army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. It was on the terrible earth-quake day That the Deacon finished his one-hoss shay." It was a busy time just then, at the very middle of the eighteenth century. And two years before this annus mirabilis described by Dr. Holmes, two years before the Deacon finished his masterpiece, or Lisbon was ruined, or a British army was destroyed by French and Indians because it would not heed the advice of George Washington, - in 1753, on the eve of a war which was to convulse Europe, decide the fate of India, and give North America finally to English-speaking people, certain loyal subjects of George II. on this spot established a new town-government. The homes and the people had been here from a much earlier time; but in 1753 the moment had come when the village of the Green River felt that it should be independent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
