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Thomas Bulfinch Writer

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Jul 15, 1796
  • Died: May 27, 1867

Thomas Bulfinch was an American writer born in Newton, Massachusetts. Bulfinch belonged to a well-educated Bostonian merchant family of modest means. His father was Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the Massachusetts State House in Boston and parts of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Bulfinch supported himself through his position at the Merchants' Bank of Boston.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. knowledge

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. happiness

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