Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the Year 1792, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the Year 1792, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Massachusetts Historical Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the Year 1792, Vol. 1 With such advantages in our hands, we are wholly inexcusable if we neglect to preserve authentic monuments of every memorable occurrence. Not only names, dates, and facts may be thus handed down to posterity but principles and reasonings, causes and consequences, with the manner of their operation, and their various connexions, may enter into the mass of historical information. Our ancestors were early attentive to this important subject. Among them were men of the first abilities and improvements, who, though strug gling with all the hardships of an infant settlement, were mindful of their posterity, and careful to provide for us. Both entertainment and instruction. 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.