Excerpt from Year-Book, 1897: Birth-Days of Distinguished Americans Chiefly of the Eighteenth Century; With Quotations From the Poetical Writings of Lloyd MifflinThey rolled the ball of Progress up; They took a stain from off the land; They drank, nor passed the bitter cup; They did the duty near at hand.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.