Historic Towns of New England1898 |
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... miles of territory , and 14.11 miles for each ten thousand inhabit- ants , the proportion in Massachusetts rising to 26.35 miles for each one hundred square miles . The same year , the number of em- 1 Chapter cii . , Bryce's American ...
... miles of territory , and 14.11 miles for each ten thousand inhabit- ants , the proportion in Massachusetts rising to 26.35 miles for each one hundred square miles . The same year , the number of em- 1 Chapter cii . , Bryce's American ...
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... miles of railway . Jan- uary 1 , 1895 , it had 7,398 miles of road , which reported gross earnings of $ 82,845,401 , and 116,069,178 passengers transported during the previous year . The significance of these facts is apparent to the ...
... miles of railway . Jan- uary 1 , 1895 , it had 7,398 miles of road , which reported gross earnings of $ 82,845,401 , and 116,069,178 passengers transported during the previous year . The significance of these facts is apparent to the ...
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... miles long , and has an average width of three quarters of a mile - making it in area the smallest city in the United States , and the most compactly settled , for its forty thousand inhabitants occupy almost every available building ...
... miles long , and has an average width of three quarters of a mile - making it in area the smallest city in the United States , and the most compactly settled , for its forty thousand inhabitants occupy almost every available building ...
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... miles . The Western Promenade is the favorite resort at sunset ; the Eastern has charms for all hours of the day . Both can be reached by electric railways . In 1614 , Captain John Smith , of Pocahontas fame , came prospecting along ...
... miles . The Western Promenade is the favorite resort at sunset ; the Eastern has charms for all hours of the day . Both can be reached by electric railways . In 1614 , Captain John Smith , of Pocahontas fame , came prospecting along ...
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... miles distant . The natural outlet of this lake is the Presumpscot River , which has several valuable water - powers along its short course to its mouth in Casco Bay , near Portland harbor . It will be remembered that Nathaniel Haw ...
... miles distant . The natural outlet of this lake is the Presumpscot River , which has several valuable water - powers along its short course to its mouth in Casco Bay , near Portland harbor . It will be remembered that Nathaniel Haw ...
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Page 210 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 304 - Lord had appointed it or not, he charged us before . God and his blessed angels, to follow him no further than he followed Christ; and if God should reveal anything to us by any other instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it as ever we were to receive any truth by his ministry ; for he was very confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 90 - No colony in America was ever settled under such favorable auspices, as that which has just commenced at the Muskingum. Information, property, and strength, will be its characteristics. I know many of the settlers personally, and there never were men better calculated to promote the welfare of such a community.
Page 296 - Jeremiah did, because of the reproach and derision he met with daily, "and all his familiar friends watched for his halting," to be revenged on him for speaking the truth, he would be forced to confess as he confessed; "his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary with forbearing, and could not stay.
Page 232 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 5 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.
Page 564 - ... speech Save the ten Arab signs, yet not without The shrewd dry humor natural to the man : His awe-struck colleagues listening all the while, Between the pauses of his argument, To hear the thunder of the wrath of God Break from the hollow trumpet of the cloud. And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face, half seen Against the background of unnatural dark, A witness to the ages as they pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear.
Page 502 - This adventure was the more remarkable, as many of this company were persons of figure, who had lived in England in honor, affluence, and delicacy, and were entire strangers to fatigue and danger.
Page 287 - The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky: Give her the wages of going on, and not to die.
Page 259 - And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.