Record Of The Rust Family Embracing The Descendants Of Henry Rust Who Came From England And Settled In Hingham Mass 1634 1635

Author : Albert Dexter Rust
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ISBN 13 : 9781331957638
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Record of the Rust Family written by Albert Dexter Rust and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Record of the Rust Family: Embracing the Descendants of Henry Rust, Who Came From England and Settled in Hingham, Mass;, 1634-1635 He who can pursue a subject so deep, profound and important, with so many avenues for thought and study opening up in so many diverse directions as that of Genealogy without gathering some thoughts from it that will germinate and yield good fruit for future generations is unworthy the name borne by this Genealogy. The genealogist stands, as no other can, upon the summit of time and looks down the generations past for hundreds of years. He can, like no other, study the influence of circumstances and society upon the different lines for many generations. It is difficult to calculate the amount of greatness one may possess by inheritance. The mantle of the illustrious does not always fall upon the son, nor does the son always inherit his father's low estate, or meanness. Kepler, the great astronomical calculator, whose mother could neither read or write, and whose father was keeper of a low dirty inn, immortalized his name without ancestral greatness. "Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them," while some, born with the elements of greatness, die before the opportunity arrives for its development. Well has Gray said of the country church-yard, "Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hand that the rod of empire might have swayed, And waked to extacy the living lyre." The true man should be benefitted by his parents' lives whether reckless and low, or careful and illustrious. If his ancestors were low and mean he should shun the causes that made them so, if great, he should be thankful for that greatness to emulate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.