 | 1879 - 512 pàgines
...volume of the series, in fulfilment of the noble design of the founder of the fund, the late \YilIiam Blanchard Towne. It is intended, as the committee...shall be models of full and accurate details. The vrork promises to be of a most interesting character, and we have no doubt will be readily sought for... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1882 - 454 pàgines
...attests. In the language of the circular which they sent out, their design has been " to make the work a positive contribution to the history of the times,...eulogies, nor of statistical and colorless abstracts, but models of full and accurate detail." The memoirs are forty-three in number. Some are slender sketches... | |
 | 1898 - 754 pàgines
...as a credit to the Society." "Their design," said their preliminary circular, " is to make the work a positive contribution to the history of the times,...special consistency with the objects of the Society, they desire that these memorials should be models of full and accurate detail." In the introduction... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1995 - 484 pàgines
...writers, both in professional and business life ; many of them are from the pens of our most eminent men, who have kindly consented to assist in the preparation...special consistency with the objects of the Society, it is'intcnded that these memorials shall be models of full and accurate del ails. The work promises to... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society - 1893 - 716 pàgines
...as a credit to the Society." " Their design," said their preliminary circular, " is to make the work a positive contribution to the history of the times,...special consistency with the objects of the Society, they desire that these memorials should be models of full and accurate detail." In the introduction... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1882 - 510 pàgines
...attests. In the language of the circular which they sent out, their design has been " to make the work a positive contribution to the history of the times,...eulogies, nor of statistical and colorless abstracts, but models of full and accurate detail." The memoirs are forty-three in number. Some are slender sketches... | |
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Blanchard Towne. It is intended, as the committee state, that this work shall be a positive contribution to the history of the times, not consisting of mere eulogies, nor of statistical and colorless abstracts ; but, in special consistency with the objects... 