Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 29, 2025
It was the grandfathers of these men who drove the British back from Concord bridge, and it was their sons who fought their way from the Rapidan to Richmond. With the help of country lawyers they sent Sumner and Wilson to the Senate, and knew what they were about when they did this. For wit, humor, and repartee, and, it may be added, for decent conversation, there is no class of men like them.
The North American Indians, the earliest inhabitants of this country of whom we know anything definite, were great story-tellers; and their histories consist entirely of stories handed down from parents to children, or, more likely, from grandparents to grandchildren, for grandfathers and grandmothers are generally more willing to tell stories than fathers or mothers.
For the most part we speak a business language which our fathers and grandfathers would not have comprehended.
Refined homes may not be better or happier than they used to be, but if they are intellectual at all, they are more vigorously intellectual. This means at the simplest that home readers of the kind I have been describing want stimulating food, not what our grandfathers used to call "slops."
His mother was the Infanta Joanna, daughter and heiress of Ferdinand of Aragon and Naples and Isabella of Castile and the Indies. The death of his father and the incapacity of his mother she had become insane left Charles at the tender age of six years an orphan under the guardianship of his grandfathers Maximilian and Ferdinand.
Three generations and more have come and gone since Napoleon trod the streets of Toulon contemplating suicide. Babes in arms were carried by fond mothers to see Lincoln, the candidate for President. These babes have grown into men, are grandfathers possibly, with whitened hair, furrowed faces, looking calmly forward to the end, having tasted all that life holds in store for them.
He saw from the start, I suppose, that the family traditions were not for me I could never begin by studying law and end by wearing the ermine, as a lot of my grandfathers and uncles have done. So " Jeff paused and drew a long breath.
Certainly to battle with a foe out-numbering them four to one. At the Mission were a dozen of their servants; men whose fathers and grandfathers had ridden herd for her family. Any one of them would give his life to serve a Windham. Inez looked about her feverishly. Should she ask O'Farrell to accompany her? He was dancing with one of the Mormon women. Brannan and Spear were not to be seen.
All these venerable edifices stand as they did when we were boys, when our grandfathers were boys. Let not the rash hand of innovation violate their sanctities, for the cement that knits these walls is no vulgar mortar, but is tempered with associations and memories which are stronger than the parts they bind together! We meet on this auspicious morning forgetting all our lesser differences.
As I said the word a great shout sprang from all mouths at once, as clear and sudden as a shot from a gun. For I must tell you that I knew somehow, but I know not how, that the men of Essex were gathering to rise against the poll-groat bailiffs and the lords that would turn them all into villeins again, as their grandfathers had been.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking