History of Augusta County, Virginia (Classic Reprint) - Brossura

McCabe, Joseph Lewis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1440079129 ISBN 13: 9781440079122

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2012

Riassunto

Excerpt from History of Augusta County, Virginia

In the appendix he has brought together all the information he could procure, or which was supplied to him by friends, as to the families of the pioneers or early settlers, and to this has been added a third part made up of biographical notices. These biographies are given, because biography is the hand-maid of history, portrait-painting for posterity, and the memory of our pioneer fathers and distinguished men is passing away, and will soon be forgotten unless some attempt be made to rescue it from impending oblivion. The heroes, who flourished before Agamemnon, says the R0 man poet, passed into forgetfulness for want of a recording pen. Cicero eloquently remarks, the life of the dead is retained in the memory of the living, but a lethean wave will soon obliterate the remembrance of both living and dead, without the biographer's pen. If an apology is needed for his course it will be found in the remark of Lord Macaulay, who has justly observed: A people, which takes no pride in the noble achieve ments of remote ancestors, will never achieve anything worthy to be re membered with pride by remote descendants.

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• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440079129
• ISBN 13: 9781440079122
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 408