The Town of Roxbury: Its Memorable Persons and Places, Its History and Antiquities, with Numerous Illustrations of Its Old Landmarks and Noted Personagesauthor, 1878 - 475 pàgines |
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The Town of Roxbury: Its Memorable Persons and Places, Its History and ... Francis Samuel Drake Visualització completa - 1905 |
The Town of Roxbury: Its Memorable Persons and Places, Its History and ... Francis Samuel Drake Visualització completa - 1908 |
The Town of Roxbury: Its Memorable Persons and Places, Its History and ... Francis Samuel Drake Visualització completa - 1878 |
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Pàgina 201 - There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round...
Pàgina 98 - At burials, nothing is read, nor any funeral sermon made, but all the neighborhood, or a good company of them, come together by tolling of the bell, and carry the dead solemnly to his grave and there stand by him while he is buried. The ministers are most commonly present.
Pàgina 36 - Court, whether that, if the honorable Congress should, for the safety of the said colonies, declare ihem independent of the kingdom of Great Britain, they, the said inhabitants will solemnly engage, with their lives and fortunes, to support them in the measure.
Pàgina 8 - ... named Dorchester. This dispersion troubled some of us, but help it we could not, wanting ability to remove to any place fit to build a town upon, and the time too short to deliberate any longer lest the winter should surprise us before we had builded our houses.
Pàgina 293 - This day we restored o r primitive practice for the training up o r youth, first o r male youth (in fitting season, stay every sab: after the evening exercize, in the Pub: meeting house, where the Elders will examine theire remembrance y' day, & any fit poynt of catechise.
Pàgina 179 - Why did not God give all men good hearts, that they might be good? And why did not God kill the Devil, that made all men so bad, "God having all power"?
Pàgina 177 - He was a very good linguist in the English tongue, and was Mr. Eliot's assistant and interpreter in his translation of the Bible and other books in the Indian language."!
Pàgina 148 - Wednesday. My pious Neighbours, are so provoked, at the diabolical Wickedness, of the Man, who has published a Volumn of Libels against my Father? and myself, that they sett apart whole Dayes of Prayer, to complain unto God against him; and this Day particularly.
Pàgina 188 - It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it, but, as I remember, water was made before it.