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Old man, have a glass of Milwaukee beer and let's talk of your home and my birthplace, and forget that there is such a country as England."
I have translated a few passages from his book and have incorporated them into this section devoted to Lahiri Mahasaya. It was into a pious Brahmin family of ancient lineage that Lahiri Mahasaya was born September 30, 1828. His birthplace was the village of Ghurni in the Nadia district near Krishnagar, Bengal.
Granger, this is Miss Lovel, the Miss Lovel whose birthplace fortune has given to you." Mr. Granger bowed rather stiffly, and with the air of a man to whom a bow was a matter of business. "I regret," he said, "to have robbed Miss Lovel of a home to which she was attached.
We spent that night at the Archduke's hospitar at Miramar near Raymond Lully's birthplace where free housing is given to any passer-by for three days, with olives, salt, and oil, the typical trio, provided. In the evening I told her across the brazero a tale that had never crossed my lips before, the tale of how I had lost my eyes.
But something has been done, or attempted to be done, to rescue Washington's birthplace from oblivion.
At San Diego, where, a century and a half before, the primitive navigators under Cortez communed with the rude and unsophisticated native there, where the zealous devotee erected his altar on the burning sand, and with offerings of incense and prayer hallowed it to God, as the birthplace of Christianity in that region upon that sainted spot commenced the spiritual conquest, the cross was erected, and the holy missionaries who accompanied the expedition entered heart and soul upon their religious duties.
The birthplace of his dreams of universal conquest. Elza was staring downward. A barren waste. Rocks bare of verdure. Grey, with red ore staining them. A desolation of empty rock, with grey flat shadows. And far ahead, the broken, serrated ranks of mountains with rocky peaks, white-hooded with the snow upon their summits. The Cold Country. Bleak; forbidding.
He left the town behind, and walked through the odours of grass and of clover and of the yellow flowers on the old earthwalls that divided the fields sweet scents to which the darkness is friendly, and which, mingling with the smell of the earth itself, reach the founts of memory sooner than even words or tones down to the brink of the river that flowed scarcely murmuring through the night, itself dark and brown as the night from its far-off birthplace in the peaty hills.
If his hair was cut like that of a choir-boy, he at least had the sturdy loins of a Tourangian; if he yielded sometimes to the native idleness of his birthplace, it was counterbalanced by his desire to make his fortune; if he lacked cleverness and education, he possessed an instinctive rectitude and delicate feelings, which he inherited from his mother, a being who had, in Tourangian phrase, a "heart of gold."
No man has done more for spiritual republicanism than Emerson, though he came from the daintiest sectarian circle of the time in the whole country. Such were Emerson's intellectual and moral parentage, nurture, and environment; such was the atmosphere in which he grew up from youth to manhood. Birthplace. Boyhood. College Life. To AET. 20.
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