. American lands and letters. ,as it seems to me, appreciated at their true Avorthby those who are our conventional measurers ofreputation. He was born in a little village near Bantam Lake(in a house long since gone), not far away fromLitchfield-Hill ; but from this home the familyremoved, when the child was scarce three yearsold, to a larger farm in New Preston, upon theborders of a stream that flows from Lake Wara-maug, and that once gave a busy hum to the * Horace Bushnell, b. 1802; d. 187fi; was graduated, YaleCollege, 1827 ; Christian NuHure., 1847 ; God in ; Sermons for tlie N
. American lands and letters. ,as it seems to me, appreciated at their true Avorthby those who are our conventional measurers ofreputation. He was born in a little village near Bantam Lake(in a house long since gone), not far away fromLitchfield-Hill ; but from this home the familyremoved, when the child was scarce three yearsold, to a larger farm in New Preston, upon theborders of a stream that flows from Lake Wara-maug, and that once gave a busy hum to the * Horace Bushnell, b. 1802; d. 187fi; was graduated, YaleCollege, 1827 ; Christian NuHure., 1847 ; God in ; Sermons for tlie New Life., 1858; Moral Uses of DarkThings.^ 1868; His Life and Letters [by his daughter].Mary R. Cheney, 1880. The original Allibone Dictionarygives both date and place of birth wrongly. The Supple-ment gives true birth-date, but wrong place of birth. 76 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. wheels of his fathers fulliug-mill. There, cameabout a home-spun rearing of the lad—under theinfluence of a landscape which abounded in pictu-. Lake Waramaug. resque beauties, and the further influences of adelicate, indefatigable, spiritually minded motherwhose gray-blue eyes beamed always on himtenderly, whether in love or in rebuke. Memoriesof that home and of those surroundings make upvery much of the Avarp and woof of his admirableessay upon the Age of Home-spun.* For the lload at Ccutenuial Festival, Litelifield, 1851. HORACE BUSH NELL. 77 most part there was only country schooling, withthe ^ spring ^ given to it by a watchful and am-bitious parent; while wiser economies under thesame keen oversight gave a launch upon collegelife at Yale. He studied there as such eager, inquiring mindsmust, but not always iu the exact lines laid downby the directory ; not indeed always giving fullallegiance, but sharing, on one occasion at least, ina quasi-rebellion—believing that the governors bysome decision of theirs had wronged him, andothers. And believing thus, it belonged to hisPuritan blood and breedi
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