Sir Charles Henry Frankland, Baronet: Or, Boston in the Colonial Times

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J. Munsell, 1865 - 129 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 54 - The sunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must weep, The tender azure of the unruffled deep, The orange tints that gild the greenest bough, The torrents that from cliff to valley leap, The vine on high, the willow branch below, Mix'd in one mighty scene, with varied beauty glow.
Pàgina 15 - That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a
Pàgina 1 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Pàgina 8 - Second in 1660. His son, Sir THOMAS FRANKLAND, the second baronet, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John and Lady Frances Russell, the youngest and favorite child of Cromwell, and whose personal attractions were such as to lead Charles the Second to solicit her hand in marriage.3 Henry, the fourth son of Sir Thomas Frankland, resided at Mattersea, in Nottinghamshire, and married Elizabeth, daugh1 The coat of arms is, Azure, a dolphin naiant, embowed, or on a chief of the second, two saltiers, gules....
Pàgina 54 - Lo ! Cintra's glorious Eden intervenes In variegated maze of mount and glen. Ah, me ! what hand can pencil guide, or pen, To follow half on which the eye dilates Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken Than those whereof such things the bard relates, Who to the awe-struck world unlock'd Elysium's gates? XIX. The horrid crags, by toppling convent crown'd...
Pàgina 57 - In all thy undertakings let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavours; if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. Terrify not thy soul with vain fears; neither let thy heart sink within thee from the phantoms of imagination. From fear proceedeth misfortune; but he that hopeth, helpeth himself. As the ostrich, when pursued, hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger. If thou believest a thing impossible, thy despondency shall make it so;...
Pàgina 41 - ' In all thy desires, let reason go along with thee; and fix not thy hope beyond the bounds of probability, so shall success attend thy undertakings, and thy heart shall not be vexed with disappointments." Horticulture was Frankland's delight and he introduced upon the Hopkinton estate a great variety of the choicest fruit, — such as apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherries of excellent quality, apricots and quinces from England, — and upon the extensive grounds of the place he set out elms and...
Pàgina 31 - Second. 1 This was in King, now State street, and is noticed as early as 1727. CHAPTER VI. Purchase of land at Pemaquid — The Brown Rights — Description of the land — Various claimants. At the close of the year 1745, Frankland purchased of the mother of Agnes, for the sum of ,£50 lawful money, her right and title to one seventh part of a vast tract of land in Maine, which had fallen to her on the decease of her father, Richard Pierce, of New Harbor. Mrs. Surriage was then a widow ; she was...
Pàgina 16 - Europe, and those that stayed at home having the advantage of society with travellers ; so that a gentleman from London would almost think himself at home at Boston, when he observes the number of people, their houses, their furniture, their tables, their dress and conversation, which, perhaps, is as splendid and showy as that of the most considerable tradesman in London.
Pàgina 15 - Pamela and the prayer-book, who had manors of a thousand acres in the country cultivated by slaves from Africa . . . were many of them allied to the first families in England and it was their chief ambition to keep up the ceremonies and customs of the aristocratic society which they represented. A baronet was then approached with greatest deference; a coach and four with an armorial bearing and liveried servants was a munition against indignity; the stamp of the crown upon a piece of paper, even,...

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