The Town of Roxbury: Its Memorable Persons and Places, Its History and Antiquities, with Numerous Illustrations of Its Old Landmarks and Noted PersonagesMunicipal Printing Office, 1908 - 475 oldal |
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Aaron acres afterwards artillery Auchmuty Avenue Benjamin Boston British Brook Brookline brought building built bury called cannon Capt century church citizens command corner Court Curtis daughter Davis Deacon Dearborn Dedham died Dorchester Dudley Street early Ebenezer Ebenezer Seaver Edward Eliot England erected Eustis Street farm father fire formerly George governor Greaton Hall HENRY DEARBORN highway homestead hundred Increase Sumner Indian Isaac Jamaica Plain John John Ruggles Joseph Dudley Joseph Warren Joseph Williams Lamb's Dam land liberty lived mansion March Massachusetts meeting-house minister Nathaniel Nathaniel Ruggles Neck occupied officers old house parish Parker pastor patriot persons Pond regiment residence road Roxbury Street Ruggles Samuel says Seaver selectmen side siege siege of Boston soldiers Stony River stood Sumner Tavern Thomas Thomas Dudley Thomas Weld town meeting troops Warren Washington Weld West Roxbury wife William Heath
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429. oldal - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends...
402. oldal - SWEET AUBURN ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Where smiling Spring its earliest visit paid, And parting Summer's lingering blooms delayed : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
197. oldal - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, 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...
142. oldal - Christians would more thoroughly exercise themselves unto godliness, labouring always to keep a conscience void of offence both towards God and towards man, it would be the way to have the comfort and taste the sweetness of religion.
268. oldal - ... a portraiture of the temper and taste of the persons who encamp in it. Some are made of boards, and some of sail-cloth. Some partly of one and partly of the other. Again, others are made of stone and turf, brick or brush. Some are thrown up in a hurry ; others curiously wrought with doors and windows, done with wreaths and withes, in the manner of a basket.
239. oldal - some land for farms, and, going down the river about four miles, they made choice of a place for one thousand acres for each of them. They offered each other the first choice, but because the deputy's was first granted, and himself had store of land already, the governor yielded him the choice. So, at the place where the deputy's land was to begin, there were two great stones, which they called the Two Brothers, in remembrance that they were brothers by then. children's marriage, and did so brotherly...
293. oldal - And of the singing of the congregations, "it sounded like five hundred different tunes roared out at the same time," and so little attention was paid to time, that they were often one or two words apart, producing noises "so hideous and disorderly as is bad beyond expression." The manner of singing also had become so tedious and drawling, that he goes on to say, " I myself have twice in one note paused to take breath.
59. oldal - ... gagged or set in a ducking-stool, and dipped over head and ears three times in some convenient place of fresh or salt water, as the court or magistrate shall judge meet.
34. oldal - Court, whether that, if the honorable Congress should, for the safety of the said colonies, declare them 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.
164. oldal - COME join hand in hand, brave Americans all, And rouse your bold hearts at fair Liberty's call ; No tyrannous acts, shall suppress your just claim, Or stain with dishonor America's name. In freedom we're born, and in freedom we'll live ; Our purses are ready, Steady, Friends, steady, Not as slaves, but as freemen our money we'll give. * Our worthy forefathers — let's give them a cheer — To climates unknown did courageously steer ; Thro...