Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHOR

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781331640349

Excerpt from The Colonial Cavalier When the earliest colonists left England, the Cavalier was at the height of his glory. Now he represents a lost cause, and none so poor to do him reverence. The sceptre of royal authority is shattered; society has grown dull and decorous. Even in dress, the Puritan has prevailed. The peo ple who speak of Cromwell's followers as Round heads and, Cropped Ears, go closer cropped than they, and the costume of a gentleman of to day is uglier and gloomier than any the Puritan ever dreamed of introducing. These concessions of the modern world make the Puritan a familiar figure, as he stands out in the page of Hawthorne, or on the canvas of Bough ton. But the Cavalier fades into the dim and shadowy background of the past. We cannot af ford to have him slip away from us so, if we wish really to understand the history of our country; we must know both sides of its development. 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.