The Cape Cod Centennial Celebration at Barnstable, Sept. 3, 1839, of the Incorporation of that Town, Sept. 3, 1639: Giving a Full Detail of the Preliminary Proceedings of the Committees and the Speeches and Toasts at the Dinner, Correctly Reported and RevS.B. Phinney, 1840 - 92 Seiten |
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The Cape Cod Centennial Celebration at Barnstable, Sept. 3, 1839, of the ... Barnstable (Mass ). Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2013 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Barnstable County Barnstable Patriot Boston called Cape Cod Cape towns Chief Justice Chief Marshal church citizens of Barnstable Committee of Arrangements Commonwealth Court House Daniel Davis David Crocker Davis descendants Dimmock early Eben Bacon eloquent England fathers feel festivities friends Governor Harrison Gray Otis heart HENRY CROCKER honor hundred incorporation Indian interest invitation James Otis John JOHN GORHAM PALFREY Josiah Judge ladies land liberty lived Lothrop Massachusetts Meeting House memory ment never occasion Old Colony Orator PALFREY parish passed Pavilion Pilgrim Fathers Pilgrims pious Plymouth Colony present President prosperity Provincetown recollections S. B. Phinney sands scene Scituate seats second Centennial Anniversary sentiment settlement settlers shore soil sons spirit spot Thacher Thomas Thomas Gray Thomas Hinckley tion Toast Master town of Barnstable venerable virtues Walley Walter Crocker Warren Marchant William Sturgis Yarmouth Zeno Scudder
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 23 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Seite 30 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Seite 49 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Seite 24 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Seite 23 - When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Seite 24 - Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstained what there they found, Freedom to worship God ! — FELICIA D.
Seite 65 - The world was sad ; the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled...
Seite 8 - During the time of his imprisonment, his wife fell sick, of which sickness she died. He procured liberty of the bishop to visit his wife before her death, and commended her to God by prayer, who soon after gave up the ghost.
Seite 23 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted came, Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear, — They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.
Seite 79 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.