Reminiscences and Memorials of Men of the Revolution and Their FamiliesEstes and Lauriat, 1882 - 424 Seiten |
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... towns , and the Provincial and the Continental Congress 12 Elder and younger members of the British family alike governed by high principles Change of feeling between the New and the Old World welcome 220 Harrison Gray Otis and Josiah ...
... towns , and the Provincial and the Continental Congress 12 Elder and younger members of the British family alike governed by high principles Change of feeling between the New and the Old World welcome 220 Harrison Gray Otis and Josiah ...
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... town by the British Began professional life as a minis- ter Left the ministry for the law Complimented by Bishop Cheverus Counsel in a theatre case ; eulogized by Samuel Adams . In 1811 , president of the senate ; Joseph Story , speaker ...
... town by the British Began professional life as a minis- ter Left the ministry for the law Complimented by Bishop Cheverus Counsel in a theatre case ; eulogized by Samuel Adams . In 1811 , president of the senate ; Joseph Story , speaker ...
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... Town - offices 356 General faithfulness 352 Church and State 357 Ralph Farnham the centenarian , Artemas Hale , character and a representative Revolutionary soldier , seen by the author at the age of ninety - five . habits . 358 Masonic ...
... Town - offices 356 General faithfulness 352 Church and State 357 Ralph Farnham the centenarian , Artemas Hale , character and a representative Revolutionary soldier , seen by the author at the age of ninety - five . habits . 358 Masonic ...
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Artemas Bowers Muzzey. xvi Author's youthful sympathy with Colonel Munroe's narrative Town honors Author's remembrance of Daniel Harrington's smithy and its relics CONTENTS . PAGE PAGE • 372 373 Revolutionary record and town services of ...
Artemas Bowers Muzzey. xvi Author's youthful sympathy with Colonel Munroe's narrative Town honors Author's remembrance of Daniel Harrington's smithy and its relics CONTENTS . PAGE PAGE • 372 373 Revolutionary record and town services of ...
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... Town oF BOSTON , 1775 90 DANIEL WEBSTER 100 FIRST MEETING - HOUSE 129 HANCOCK HOUSE 137 THE OLD AND THE NEW . 153 DOROTHY HANCOCK'S RECEPTION 156 BUNKER - HILL MONUMENT 168 BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL 208 LIBERTY TREE 242 THE WASHINGTON ELM ...
... Town oF BOSTON , 1775 90 DANIEL WEBSTER 100 FIRST MEETING - HOUSE 129 HANCOCK HOUSE 137 THE OLD AND THE NEW . 153 DOROTHY HANCOCK'S RECEPTION 156 BUNKER - HILL MONUMENT 168 BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL 208 LIBERTY TREE 242 THE WASHINGTON ELM ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afterward American April 19 army Baron von Steuben battle of Bunker battle of Lexington battle of Monmouth born Boston Boutelle brave British Bunker Hill Burgoyne Cambridge Captain Channing character church Cincinnati civil Colonel command Commodore Concord Congress daughter death died early Edmund Ellery England eyes face father February fire gave graduated at Harvard Hancock Harvard College heart Henry Henry Dearborn Hingham honor Indians ington January John Adams John Quincy Adams Josiah Quincy July June Kirkland Knox Lafayette liberty Lincoln lived look March married Massachusetts meeting-house ment military minister moral Munroe never noble occasion October officers oration Otis patriotism Perry preach present President received recollect Regiment Revolution Revolutionary Samuel Adams Samuel Kirkland says September sermon Society soldiers spirit stood Theodore Parker tion took town troops United Washington William
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Seite 62 - The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! 35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.
Seite 206 - I have taken frequent opportunities, both in public and private, of acknowledging your great zeal, attention, and abilities in performing the duties of your office, yet I wish to make use of this last moment of my public life to signify, in the strongest terms, my entire approbation of your conduct, and to express my sense of the obligations the public is under to you for your faithful and meritorious services.
Seite 8 - There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard for ancestry, which nourishes only a weak pride; as there is also a care for posterity, which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart.
Seite 379 - I heard the word of command given to the troops to fire, and some of said troops did fire, and I saw one of said small party lie dead on the ground nigh said meeting-house...
Seite 197 - ... The personal appearance of our Commander in Chief, is that of the perfect gentleman and accomplished warrior. He is remarkably tall, full six feet, erect and well proportioned. The strength and proportion of his joints and muscles, appear to be commensurate with the preeminent powers of his mind. The serenity of his countenance, and majestic gracefulness of his deportment, impart a strong impression of that dignity and grandeur, which are his peculiar characteristics...
Seite 128 - He was as good as his word, — better. Having loaded his musket, he placed his hat, containing his ammunition, on the ground between his feet, in readiness for. a second charge. At the second fire he was wounded, and sunk upon his knees ; and in this condition discharged his gun.
Seite 313 - Welcome, thrice welcome to our shores ; and whithersoever throughout the limits of the continent your course shall take you, the ear that hears you shall bless you, the eye that sees you shall bear witness to you, and every tongue exclaim, with heartfelt joy, Welcome, welcome, La Fayette ! 435 AN ADDRESS, DELIVERED AT THE LATINO OF THE CORNER-8TONE OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT, JUNE 17, 1825.
Seite 409 - In concluding his farewell sermon, he said, that, in the language of Holy Writ, " there was a time for all things ; a time to preach, and a time to pray, but those times had passed away...
Seite 321 - ... our revolutionary army— that army so brave, so virtuous, so united by mutual confidence and affection. That we have been the faithful soldiers of independence, freedom, and equality, those three essential requisites of national and personal dignity and happiness; that we have lived to see those sacred principles secured to this vast .Republic, and cherished elsewhere by all generous minds, shall be the pride of our life, the boast of our children, the comfort of our last moments. — Receive,...
Seite 161 - Whereas true religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness :