Fredericksburg
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Howison, Robert Reid) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Fredericksburg: Past, Present and Future In seeking to comply with the invitation of the Lecture Committee of our Library and Lyceum Association, and to lecture on the theme thus presented, I feel bound, as is the manner of all veracious historians, to begin at the beginning. But where the beginning is or ought to be may be a serious question. To quiet your alarm, however, ladies and gentlemen, let me say at once that I do not propose to follow the example of the profound and erudite Mr. Diederick Knickerbocker, who, when he undertook to write the history of New York, under the Dutch rule, gave to his readers three complete and rich preliminary chapters, in which he discussed the all-important question, how this world came to be created - discussed, in fact, every theory, sage or wild, that has been announced concerning creation, from the days of Moses to the present time. In these high questions I do not feel bound to involve either you or myself in looking into the beginning of Fredericksburg. It will suffice to say that, after the lapse of some four hundred and fifty millions of years from the epoch when our Earth was first gathered, by Creative Power, into a sphere (which period the great Canadian geologist. Principal Dawson, of Montreal, considers a very moderate allowance of time), the crust of the earth became a genial soil, adorned with grass, and flowers, and fruits, and trees, and fit for the habitation of man; and that the surface of the earth contained not only the continents of Asia, Africa and Europe, and the great seas, but also the continent of North and South America; and that North America contained what was, in due time, the territory of the United States, and the United States contained Virginia, and Virginia contained the county of Spotsylvania, and Spotsylvania, the town of Fredericksburg. 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.
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