Exercises in Celebrating the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge, Held December 28, 1880

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C.W. Sever, 1881 - 163 pages

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Page 53 - Offices thereto belonging: And by the side of the Colledge a faire Grammar Schoole, for the training up of young Schollars, and fitting of them for Academicall Learning, that still as they are judged ripe, they may be received into the Colledge of this Schoole...
Page 16 - Chestnut Tree, is presented as an expression of grateful regard and veneration by The Children of Cambridge, who with their friends join in the best wishes and congratulations on This Anniversary, February 27, 1879.
Page 138 - ... and munition thither, all who were able might be drawn thither, and such as shall come to us hereafter, to their advantage be compelled so to do . and so, if God would, a fortified town might there grow up, the place fitting reasonably well thereto.
Page 49 - Shepard, that when the foundation of a colledge was to be laid, Cambridge, rather than any other place, was pitched upon to be the seat of that happy seminary : out of which there proceeded many notable preachers, who were made such very much by their sitting under Mr.
Page 107 - I ever judged it lawful to join with them in preaching. (5) I saw it my duty to desire the fruition of all God's ordinances which I could not enjoy in old England. (6) My dear wife did much long to see me settled there in peace and so put me on to it.
Page 124 - The invitation to be present at the commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of...
Page 56 - The punishment of petit treason in a man is, to be drawn and hanged, and in a woman to be drawn and burned...
Page 32 - And hear the children's voices shout and call, And the brown chestnuts fall. I see the smithy with its fires aglow, I hear the bellows blow, And the shrill hammers on the anvil beat The iron white with heat ! And thus, dear children, have ye made for me This day a jubilee, And to my more than three-score years and ten Brought back my youth again. The heart hath its own memory, like the mind, And in it are enshrined The precious keepsakes, into which is wrought The givers loving thought.
Page 54 - 23 d. 6 m. — In ye evening wee vissited Elder Frost, who rec'd us with great kindness and love, esteeming it a favour yt we would come into yr mean habitation ; assured us of his fervent prayers to ye Lord for us ; — A glorious saint makes a mean cottage a stately palace ; were I to make my choyce, I would rather abide with ys saint in his poor cottage, than with any one of ye princes I know of at ys day in ye world.
Page 56 - Seven families, who were connected with each other, partly by the ties of relationship, and partly by affection, had here farms, gardens, and magnificent houses, and not far off plantations of fruit. The owners of these were in the habit of daily meeting each other in the afternoons, now at the house of one, and now...

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