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“My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral”

Has Beens Book Family Generations Direct My Family Branches Collateral

Book:The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [Illustrated – 2 volumes in one]

Source: The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [Illustrated – 2 volumes in one]

“I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever.”

Has Beens Memories Forever Cutting Tree Mass Wide Miles Enjoyed Hills Branches Shade Valleys Sunlight Magnificent Nursing Concealed Outlines Lofty Scenery Kentucky Swelling

Book:A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

“I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .”

Has Beens Book Law Devotion Branches Plantations Booksellers

Book:The Political Tracts and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Source: The Political Tracts and Speeches of Edmund Burke

“England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.”