Washington, Shakespeare and St. George (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Sarah M. Colbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331266165 ISBN 13: 9781331266167

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Washington, Shakespeare and St. George

Probably there is no subject on which the leading encyclo pedias are more at fault than in regard to the origin of the family of which George Washington was the most illustrious member. The British attempts to connect it with two different counties in England (incorrectly), and then gives it up as if in despair; while the American dismisses it in short order as if it were not worthy of investigation. Both admit that the family was of English origin, however; and there is no room for doubt in regard to the precise spot in England where the ancestors of the Father of His Coun try lived and died. The topic is naturally one of great in terest, all the more so as the places occupied by the Washing ton family in the old country are near the spot where Shake Speare was born and where his remains are buried.

There are two points that beyond dispute were occupied by members of the Washington family. They may be described as situated at the extremities of a curved line less than thirty-five miles long, near the middle of which Stratford is situated. The shorter section of about fourteen miles lies in the valley of the Warwickshire Avon, the river that has been immortalized by association with the great English bard. There are sev eral rivers in England, each of which is named Avon, a fact which occasions no surprise to those who know that the word was originally applied with the meaning The Water, as Minne was by the Dacotah Indians in this country.

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Excerpt from Washington, Shakespeare and St. George The Italian Colon (Columbus), was the first discoverer of land in the Western Hemisphere; but the first to visit any spot in what is now the United States, was Cabot, an Englishman hailing from the port of Bristol, though there is some doubt as to his having been born on British soil. That was the first link in a mighty chain of influences which Englishmen and their institutions have exerted on the history of the United States. It appears prominently in our laws, government processes, social usages, literary and scientific culture, and in our agricultural and commercial development. The past intellectual growth of America was in very large part from the seed of English thought, among the originators of which Shakespeare stands pre-eminent; and its material prosperity would be far less than it is to-day but for the market furnished by the British Isles for the cotton, grain, and animal products of this country. Considerations such as these should render interesting the material presented in the following pages as a small contribution to the wealth of knowledge that will be radiated in and from Chicago during the year of the great Columbian Fair, held to celebrate the lapse of four centuries since the discovery of the New World. In his youth the writer passed some time in the country immediately surrounding the early home of Shakespeare, was several times on the Avon below Stratford, and once had a narrow escape from drowning in its waters. 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 d

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331266165
• ISBN 13: 9781331266167
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 57