Our Colonial Homes (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Drake, Samuel Adams) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Our Colonial Homes One end which I proposed to myself in this book, besides presenting house and home historically, was to gather up as many distinct types of the colonial architecture of New England as possible, from the rude farmhouse of the first settlers to the elegant mansion of a later generation, as it seems to me nothing could give half so clear a picture of a century and a half of colonial life. It was this idea alone which could give cohesion to a series of sketches having little connection in themselves, except as recording fragments of history that had become scattered with the lapse of time. Most of them were written some years ago for Appleton´s Journal; but by the addition of several new subjects, besides re-writing the old ones, the collection bears out, I think, the idea conveyed by the title of Our Colonial Homes. The selections are typical in another sense. I have considered each of these old houses as one of the bricks belonging to the American foundation. All have their interesting story, their admirable lesson, or patriotic inspiration. They are a legacy from the past, of which our generation is only the trustee. They are the parent hives, from which the outswarms have gone forth over the length and breadth of the land we love. I think myself that the New Englander has some good qualities, one among others being his veneration for the things that have a history or embody a sentiment, like the homes of his fathers. 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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