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Identifier: oldvirginiahern01fisk (find matches)
Title: Old Virginia and her neighbours
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Subjects: Virginia -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Maryland -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass, Printed at the Riverside Press
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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hare in theenterprise. The brevity of Smiths narrations now andthen leaves the story obscure. Like manyanother charming old writer, he did not alwaysconsult the convenience of the historians of alater age. So much only is clear, that duringthe voyage across the Atlantic the seeds ofquarrel were sown which bore fruit in muchbitterness and wrangling after the colonists hadThe smoke landed. Indeed, after nearly threeofcontro- centuries some smoke of the conflictstill hovers about the field. To thisday John Smith is one of the personages aboutwhom writers of history are apt to lose theirtempers. In recent days there have been manyattempts to belittle him, but the turmoil thathas been made is itself a tribute to the potencyand incisiveness of his character. Weak mendo not call forth such belligerency. Amidall the conflicting statements, too, there comesout quite distinctly the contemporary recogni-tion of his dignity and purity. Never was war-rior known, says one old writer, from debts,106
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