Statistics for occurrence #1 of “island of Jersey” in chapter 6 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
...with which he endeavored to realize the gospel of Transcendentalism in his own inner life.
Lovers of racial traits like to remember that Thoreau's grandfather was an immigrant Frenchman from the island of Jersey , and that his grandmother was Scotch and Quaker.
His father made lead pencils and ground plumbago in his own house in Concord.
The mother was from New Hampshire.
It was a high-minded family.
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