Excerpt from The Children of Westminster Abbey So runs the legend. And on the site of that lit tle church dedicated to St. Peter upon the thorn grown island in the marshes, grew up centuries later the glorious Abbey that all English and American boys and girls should love. For that Abbey is the record of the growth of our two great nations. Within its walls we are on common ground. We are in goodly company;' among those who by their words and deeds and examples have made England and America what they are. America is ...
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Excerpt from The Children of Westminster Abbey So runs the legend. And on the site of that lit tle church dedicated to St. Peter upon the thorn grown island in the marshes, grew up centuries later the glorious Abbey that all English and American boys and girls should love. For that Abbey is the record of the growth of our two great nations. Within its walls we are on common ground. We are in goodly company;' among those who by their words and deeds and examples have made England and America what they are. America is represented just as much as England by every monument in the Abbey earlier than the Civil And within the last few years England has been proud to enshrine in her Pantheon the memories of two great and good Americans George Peabody, the philanthropist, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet. Come with me, in spirit, my American friends, and let us wander down to Westminster on some warm June morning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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