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Rambles about Portsmouth: Sketches of Persons, Localities, and ..., Volum 1 Charles Warren Brewster Visualització completa - 1859 |
Rambles about Portsmouth: Sketches of Persons, Localities, and ..., Volum 1 Charles Warren Brewster Visualització completa - 1859 |
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acres afterwards Atkinson born Boston Brewster building built Capt century Charles Chauncy Congress corner Court creek Daniel daughter died early erected father front Gardner George Governor Hampshire harbor Haven horse hundred Hunking island Jackson Jacob James James Sheafe John Cutt John Langdon John Pickering John Tufton John Wentworth Joseph Joshua Kittery Ladd lady land Lear lived mansion Market Square Market street married Mary mill Moses Nathaniel Newcastle North Church occupied old North Church parish Parker passed Peirce Penhallow pews Pierse Long Piscataqua Pleasant street Portsmouth present RAMBLE residence Revolution Richard Richard Cutt river Robert Ruth Blay Samuel school house seat selectmen Sheafe Sherburne ship side sons soon spot stands Stavers Thomas Thomas Pickering tion town Treadwell Vaughan vote Washington Wentworth Whipple widow wife William William Vaughan William Whipple
Passatges populars
Pàgina 261 - And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not : I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Pàgina 262 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Pàgina 167 - IN that building, long and low, With its windows all a-row, Like the port-holes of a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin, Backward down their threads so thin Dropping, each a hempen bulk. At the end, an open door ; Squares of sunshine on the floor Light the long and dusky lane ; And the whirring of a wheel, Dull and drowsy, makes me feel All its spokes are in my brain. As the spinners to the...
Pàgina 255 - A jealousy subsists between this town (where the Legislature alternately sits,) and Portsmouth ; which, had I known it in time, would have made it necessary to have accepted an invitation to a public dinner, but my arrangements having been otherwise made, I could not.
Pàgina 265 - Washington, on the other hand, was so rigidly punctual, that when Hamilton, his secretary, pleaded a slow watch as an excuse for being five minutes tardy, he replied : " Then, sir, either you must get a new watch, or I must get a new secretary.
Pàgina 262 - Permit me, then, my brethren, to take occasion, from this auspicious event of a kind Providence, to excite your expectation and solicit your preparation for the approach of that glorious character "who is the brightness of the father's glory, and the express image of his person...
Pàgina 213 - We the subscribers, do hereby Solemnly engage and promise, that we will to the utmost of our Power, at the Risque of our Lives and Fortunes, with Arms oppose the Hostile Proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United American Colonies.
Pàgina 212 - DECLARATION on this paper; and when so done to make return thereof, together with the name or names of all who shall refuse to sign the same, to the General Assembly or Committee of Safety of this Colony. M. Weare, Chairman.
Pàgina 206 - For more than twenty years he dwelt entirely alone in a hut, which scarcely any one would have deemed decent for a barn. He made his own garments, which were in a fashion peculiar to himself. He tilled his land, milked his cows, and made his butter and cheese ; but subsisted principally on potatoes and milk. Owing, no doubt, to his simple and temperate mode of living, he exhibited, at the age of eighty-two, a face freer from wrinkles than is generally seen in those of fifty.
Pàgina 29 - I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep what I have committed to him until that day.