 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 páginas
...a line of distinguished ancestors, the relative standing of whom is given in an old epitaph: — " Under this stone lies Richard Mather, Who had a son...father, And eke a grandson greater than either." This grandson was of course Cotton Mather, who was born Feb. 12, 1663, in Boston. On the side of his mother,... | |
 | Alfred Schalck de la Faverie - 1909 - 382 páginas
...: les Mather constituent une petite dynastie et ces vers à leur adresse sont devenus populaires : Under this stone lies Richard Mather Who had a son...his father And eke a grandson greater than either (i). Il hérita donc de la renommée de ses ancêtres, à laquelle il ajouta sa propre distinction.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1910 - 502 páginas
...erected to their memory in Dorchester churchyard, Massachusetts, bears the following inscription : — " Under this stone lies Richard Mather, Who had a son...his father, And eke a grandson greater than either." The descent of heroic qualities in the male line is strikingly illustrated by the history of the members... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 páginas
...his family in literary and theological colonial New England. An old epitaph to this effect runs thus: "Under this stone lies Richard Mather Who had a son...his father, And eke a grandson greater than either." He has been styled "the literary behemoth of New England," and his learning was indeed prodigious.... | |
 | Leonidas Warren Payne - 1919 - 452 páginas
...epitaph written for the tomb of the first representative of the family who came to America, reads: Under this stone lies Richard Mather Who had a son...father, And eke a grandson greater than either. This Richard Mather, a non-Conformist minister in England, was forbidden to preach and practically forced... | |
 | William Lawrence Clements - 1923 - 258 páginas
...Dr. Increase Mather. Who expired August 23, 1723,' Boston, 1724. There is an old epitaph which says: Under this stone lies Richard Mather, Who had a son...his father, And eke a grandson greater than either. The most prolific of the Mathers in literary output, and by far the most widely known, was the eldest... | |
 | William Lawrence Clements - 1923 - 254 páginas
...Dr. Increase Mather. Who expired August 23, 1723,' Boston, 1724. There is an old epitaph which says: Under this stone lies Richard Mather, < Who had a...his father, And eke a grandson greater than either. The most prolific of the Mathers in literary output, and by far the most widely known, was the eldest... | |
 | John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald - 1924 - 158 páginas
...compuesto como epitafio para el fundador de la familia. Dice así : TJnder this stone lies Bichard Jlather, Who had a son greater than his father, And eke a grandson greater than either. Debajo de esta piedra yace Eicardo Mather, Que trajo al mundo un hijo más grande que su padre, Y también... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1927 - 882 páginas
...HL BOURDIN, RH GABRIEL, and ST WILLIAMS, Tale University Press. THERE is an old epitaph which reads: Under this stone lies Richard Mather, Who had a son...father, And eke a grandson greater than either. This evaluation of the Mather dynasty has seemingly been borne out by time. To flash as a mental test the... | |
 | 1874 - 1184 páginas
...in New England from a very early period, as one of the old epitaphs shows us in homely verse:— " Under this stone lies Richard Mather, Who had a son...his father, And eke a grandson greater than either." The fame of Joseph Warren, the first distinguished martyr of the Revolution, is the central glory of... | |
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Under this stone lies Richard Mather, Who had a son greater than his father, And eke a grandson greater than either. 
