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Description:Excerpt from The Rev. Oliver Arnold, First Rector of Sussex: With Some Account of His Life, His Parish, and His Successors, and the Old Indian College No excuse need in these days be offered for the study of history. In all ages of the world and in all departments of human activity some knowledge of the past has proved requisite to a correct apprehension and full enjoyment of the present, as well as to a sagacious forecast of and a wise provision for the future; and cone of the sisters nine has new more votaries than Clio. Not only are the great heroes who lived before Agamemnon forever lost to us because they lacked a sacred bard to sing their story, but the genius of the historian has frequently won more lasting renown than the greatest exploits of these he celebrated. Homer, who sang of heroes, Thucydides the philosophical, Livy with his "pictured page," Tacitus with his terse and thrilling tales, Gibbon the great, and Macaulay the many-sided have thus secured fame that shall perish only with the languages in which they wrote. The historical picture, however, like any other, requires both proportion and perspective, and background as well as foreground. In some degree the importance of an event varies directly with the length of time since it occurred. The happenings of yesterday are no less history than those of a hundred years ago; but we cannot always get up high enough above the bustle and routine of every day life to estimate aright the relative value of things, or distinguish the wholly transient from the comparatively eternal. The fellow fooling on the fence sees straighter sometimes than the farmer following the furrow. Thus is it that the greatest writers have rarely been the first delvers in their particular field. Generalization and analysis and philosophical deduction imply facts and premises, to gather and arrange which is the humbler office of the oft-forgotten toiler. But though the time has not yet cone for writing a history of Sussex, or perhaps of this Province; while it is not proposed to trace, much less philosophize upon, the causes of the American revolution, or to assign the exact proportions in which a few shortsighted old men in England and a few hotheaded young men in America were respectively responsible for that event of far-reaching and daily increasing importance; it is conceived to be time, and high time, to collect some materials from which the history of this locality may hereafter be constructed; to gather from provincial archives and county records, from family Bibles and tombstones, from crumpled letters and time-stained journals, and by the fitful and uncertain light of local tradition, who and what manner of men they were that, having resisted, often unto blood, striving against what they considered sin, abandoned both friends and property to hew out for themselves a home in a howling and desolate wilderness. Many causes have combined to render their memorials few and scanty. But a small proportion of them had what we would call an education; they had just parted in anger from kith and kin, the population was sparse, the roads were mere bridle paths, and travelling on them wholly by horseback; there were no newspapers or book stores of any account, and no mails, railroads, steamers, telegraphs or telephones at all. Is it not well that men should occasionally turn from the farm, the factory, the forum, to survey the sacrifices, the sufferings and the successes of these stalwart, spirited and self-respecting grand-sires? When the Revolutionary war began in 1776, the whole of what is now the province of New Brunswick was included in the province of Nova Scotia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Rev. Oliver Arnold, First Rector of Sussex: With Some Account of His Life, His Parish, and His Successors, and the Old Indian College (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Rev. Oliver Arnold, First Rector of Sussex: With Some Account of His Life, His Parish, and His Successors, and the Old Indian College (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Rev. Oliver Arnold, First Rector of Sussex: With Some Account of His Life, His Parish, and His Successors, and the Old Indian College No excuse need in these days be offered for the study of history. In all ages of the world and in all departments of human activity some knowledge of the past has proved requisite to a correct apprehension and full enjoyment of the present, as well as to a sagacious forecast of and a wise provision for the future; and cone of the sisters nine has new more votaries than Clio. Not only are the great heroes who lived before Agamemnon forever lost to us because they lacked a sacred bard to sing their story, but the genius of the historian has frequently won more lasting renown than the greatest exploits of these he celebrated. Homer, who sang of heroes, Thucydides the philosophical, Livy with his "pictured page," Tacitus with his terse and thrilling tales, Gibbon the great, and Macaulay the many-sided have thus secured fame that shall perish only with the languages in which they wrote. The historical picture, however, like any other, requires both proportion and perspective, and background as well as foreground. In some degree the importance of an event varies directly with the length of time since it occurred. The happenings of yesterday are no less history than those of a hundred years ago; but we cannot always get up high enough above the bustle and routine of every day life to estimate aright the relative value of things, or distinguish the wholly transient from the comparatively eternal. The fellow fooling on the fence sees straighter sometimes than the farmer following the furrow. Thus is it that the greatest writers have rarely been the first delvers in their particular field. Generalization and analysis and philosophical deduction imply facts and premises, to gather and arrange which is the humbler office of the oft-forgotten toiler. But though the time has not yet cone for writing a history of Sussex, or perhaps of this Province; while it is not proposed to trace, much less philosophize upon, the causes of the American revolution, or to assign the exact proportions in which a few shortsighted old men in England and a few hotheaded young men in America were respectively responsible for that event of far-reaching and daily increasing importance; it is conceived to be time, and high time, to collect some materials from which the history of this locality may hereafter be constructed; to gather from provincial archives and county records, from family Bibles and tombstones, from crumpled letters and time-stained journals, and by the fitful and uncertain light of local tradition, who and what manner of men they were that, having resisted, often unto blood, striving against what they considered sin, abandoned both friends and property to hew out for themselves a home in a howling and desolate wilderness. Many causes have combined to render their memorials few and scanty. But a small proportion of them had what we would call an education; they had just parted in anger from kith and kin, the population was sparse, the roads were mere bridle paths, and travelling on them wholly by horseback; there were no newspapers or book stores of any account, and no mails, railroads, steamers, telegraphs or telephones at all. Is it not well that men should occasionally turn from the farm, the factory, the forum, to survey the sacrifices, the sufferings and the successes of these stalwart, spirited and self-respecting grand-sires? When the Revolutionary war began in 1776, the whole of what is now the province of New Brunswick was included in the province of Nova Scotia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Rev. Oliver Arnold, First Rector of Sussex: With Some Account of His Life, His Parish, and His Successors, and the Old Indian College (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Rev. Oliver Arnold, First Rector of Sussex: With Some Account of His Life, His Parish, and His Successors, and the Old Indian College (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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