| George Edward Ellis - Nutrition - 1871 - 750 pages
...Entrance of Boston Harbour, near where the first New England Settlement was made, still bears his Name ; that his Ancestors have ever lived in reputable Situations...he was born, and have hitherto used the Arms of the antient and respectable Family of Thompson of the County of York, from a constant Tradition that they... | |
| John Tyndall - Science - 1892 - 522 pages
...entrance of Boston Harbour, where the first New England Settlement was made, still bears his name ; that his Ancestors have ever lived in reputable Situations...he was born, and have hitherto used the Arms of the antient and respectable Family of Thompson, of the county of York, from a constant Tradition that they... | |
| Nicholas Delbanco - Fiction - 2008 - 486 pages
...Island which belonged to his Ancestors, at the Entrance of Boston Harbour... still bears his Name; that his Ancestors have ever lived in reputable Situations...he was born, and have hitherto used the Arms of the antient and respectable Family of Thompson of the County of York, from a constant Tradition that they... | |
| Nicholas Delbanco - Fiction - 2008 - 486 pages
...reputable Situations in that Country where he was born, and have hitherto used the Arms of the antient and respectable Family of Thompson of the County of...that they derived their Descent from that Source." What is ancient once was young: the great oak grows out of an acorn, the thick limb from a twig. Therefore,... | |
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