Addresses Delivered Before the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York and Year Book for 1911-1912 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Addresses Delivered Before the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York and Year Book for 1911-1912 (Classic Reprint) written by New York Society of Colonial Wars and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Addresses Delivered Before the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York and Year Book for 1911-1912 Old England. He was princely in his bearing. His eyes were glorious with genius. He was a disciplined scholar grappling with large and noble ideas, and dragging shy truth from her hiding places into the light. He was an artist haunted with visions Of beauty; a man of the people, his heart throbbing with broad sympathies; a home lover and a wide traveler; sitting in the proudest seats of earthly honor, and carried to his burial in Trinity Churchyard by the leaders of the community, amid the tokens Of universal sorrow. The common factor in these two characters was the spirit of the pioneer - the spirit that keeps the prow always outward bound, that is sensitive to the call of the time to come, that has vision to see the path over which no one yet has walked, the courage to brave uncharted seas and un trailed forests, the heroism to break with tradition, conven tion and opposition, and advance alone into the dark. These two men responded to the lure of the unknown. They burned to discover the gateways of the beyond, and to march to the frontiers of space. They felt the sleepless impulse to trace every river to its far - away fountain head and to' journey to the very walls of the world. In his memorandum of the purpose of his voyage, Hudson wrote: To discover the North Pole and sail across it to China or India. In his journal Fulton writes: My head is so full of original notions that there IS no: vacant chamber there in which to' store the contents of dusty books. I labor with the ardor of an enthusiast Nothing is impossible. One of these men, if he failed to find the North Pole, did discover one of the pivots of the planet, and the other invented the machinery which caused the world to revolve around it. 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 do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.