Author: Asa D. Smith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-15

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9780483155107

Excerpt from The Puritan Character: An Address Delivered Before the New England Society of the City of Montreal; December 23, 1857 The celebration to which we gather here, has, in the eyes of some of us - of some even of the sons of New England - a certain aspect of novelty. Not that we have failed to cherish, as becomes us, the memory of the Pilgrims. Their names and their deeds have been as household words to us. Musing upon them till the fire has burned, we have told them to our children, and have sounded them forth in the chief places of concourse. As from year to year this anniversary has returned, we have given heed to the summons of other like societies, hard by the rock of Plymouth itself; or in the old Puritan capital or in the great metropolis of the nation or in its newer regions, prompt to confess, in their matchless progress, the presence and the power of the New England spirit. We meet to day, however, without the bounds of the land of the pilgrims. We are on British soil, within the sound of that drum-beat whose echoes girdle the globe. The same royal banner waves over us which was flung to the breeze at Marston Moor, at N aseby and at Worcester. We sit under that same sceptre which was borne by Henry VIII, the veritable Blue heard of our nursery terrors, by bloody Mary, at whose name the cheek of our childhood was blanched, and by James I, who threatened, and was as good as his word, to harry our fore fathers out of his realm. 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.