| 1875 - 980 páginas
...grandfather of the subject of this paper, is more truthful than epitaphs often are ; it records that " Under this Stone lies Richard Mather, Who had a Son...his Father, And eke a Grandson greater than either." Richard Mather was a native of England, born at Lowton, Lancashire, in 1596. He was appointed to the... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 564 páginas
...is said to have exhihited them more remarkably than he. An epitaph upon Richard Mather runs thus ; " Under this stone lies Richard Mather, Who had a son greater than his father, And eke agrandton greater than either." Thus happily born, and possessing such favorable capacities, it was... | |
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