Historic Towns of New EnglandLyman Pierson Powell G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1899 - 599 pages |
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... interest in our historic past , and contribute to the mak- ing of another kind of patriotism than that Dr. Johnson had in mind when he defined it as the " last refuge of a scoundrel . " I foresaw some at least of the serious diffi ...
... interest in our historic past , and contribute to the mak- ing of another kind of patriotism than that Dr. Johnson had in mind when he defined it as the " last refuge of a scoundrel . " I foresaw some at least of the serious diffi ...
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... interest ; the well - being it affords him secures his affection , and its welfare is the aim of his ambition and of his future exertions . He takes a part in every occurrence in the place ; he practises the art of government in the ...
... interest ; the well - being it affords him secures his affection , and its welfare is the aim of his ambition and of his future exertions . He takes a part in every occurrence in the place ; he practises the art of government in the ...
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... interest ; the well - being it affords him secures his affection , and its welfare is the aim of his ambition and of his future ex- ertions . He takes a part in every occurrence in the place ; he practises the art of government in the ...
... interest ; the well - being it affords him secures his affection , and its welfare is the aim of his ambition and of his future ex- ertions . He takes a part in every occurrence in the place ; he practises the art of government in the ...
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... interests , and they each contain thousands of inhabitants to whom Harvard , Yale , and Brown are of as little practical benefit or concern as if they were situated in remote Hawaii or Porto Rico . Nevertheless , the chief glory of each ...
... interests , and they each contain thousands of inhabitants to whom Harvard , Yale , and Brown are of as little practical benefit or concern as if they were situated in remote Hawaii or Porto Rico . Nevertheless , the chief glory of each ...
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... interest- ing and significant account of the impression made by one of the Western Christian colleges upon a friendly and thoroughly trained French observer , see the translation of an article by Th . Bentzon ( Madame Blanc ) in the ...
... interest- ing and significant account of the impression made by one of the Western Christian colleges upon a friendly and thoroughly trained French observer , see the translation of an article by Th . Bentzon ( Madame Blanc ) in the ...
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Page 208 - 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 88 - 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 301 - 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 that the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 294 - 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 302 - 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 230 - 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 7 - 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 558 - ... 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 498 - 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 285 - 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.