Excerpt from The Platt Lineage: A Genealogical Research and Record Wherefore? Let Lord Macaulay answer when he says that those Persons who take no pride in the noble achievements of their ancestors, will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by their remote descendants. When an angry dispute arose in the House of Lords between a peer of noble lineage and one of a new creation, it is reported that Bishop Warburton made this re mark, That high birth was a thing which he never knew any one disparage, ...
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Excerpt from The Platt Lineage: A Genealogical Research and Record Wherefore? Let Lord Macaulay answer when he says that those Persons who take no pride in the noble achievements of their ancestors, will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by their remote descendants. When an angry dispute arose in the House of Lords between a peer of noble lineage and one of a new creation, it is reported that Bishop Warburton made this re mark, That high birth was a thing which he never knew any one disparage, except those who had it not, and he never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything elseto be proud of. In the Spirit of these passages, is it not a duty to aid in preserving any worthy memorials of one's ancestry and kindred 9 In this instance, the writer testifies, it has been a Special and an absorbing pleasure. He was led to undertake this work by finding a manuscript of a relative highly esteemed, in which there were many interesting details gathered together some twenty five years since. He thought a full record would be valuable as a matter of history and awaken interest in family groups now widely extended. 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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