Excerpt from The New American Type, and Other Essays Bloods, but most of our ancestors Of Revolu tionary times were featured and complexioned like British men. Of these men there were in the galleries several portraits painted by Trum bull. There was John Adams, a short, ruddy, choleric little man, with the free bearing of an English yeoman, ready, perhaps over-ready, to defend his curtilage and cowyard, his plowed fields and fallow, against taxgath erers, Cavalier squire, or even the lord of the manor; an honest, healthy man, untroubled by any doubts as to possible encroachment by his boundary lines. Near him hung Alexan der Hamilton, of more aristocratic type, open, generous, high-spirited, a sort of dashing gal lant, yet Of steadfast serenity; his mind rest ing solidly on reason and principles, an ardent English gentleman. There was James Madi son, not over-imaginative, not noble, with a touch of English bulldog in his jowl, shrewd stable; and hard by, 30pm gli altri com aquila, the sober, godly, righteous face of Washington, calm, almost severe, a man of purpose inwardly sustained. There was also major-general Samuel Osgood, of somewhat Southern aspect, a hawklike keenness in the. 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.