Abigail Adams and Her TimesD. Appleton, 1917 - 282 páginas |
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... BOSTON MASSACRE IV . THE BOSTON TEA PARTY · V. AFTER LEXINGTON VI . BOSTON BLOCKADE PAGE I 24 • 40 60 88 • 112 • 124 · 142 181 · 197 · 231 260 VII . IN HAPPY BRAINTREE VIII . INDEPENDENCE AT LAST IX . MR . ADAMS ABROAD · X. THE COURT OF ...
... BOSTON MASSACRE IV . THE BOSTON TEA PARTY · V. AFTER LEXINGTON VI . BOSTON BLOCKADE PAGE I 24 • 40 60 88 • 112 • 124 · 142 181 · 197 · 231 260 VII . IN HAPPY BRAINTREE VIII . INDEPENDENCE AT LAST IX . MR . ADAMS ABROAD · X. THE COURT OF ...
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... Boston , the culti- vated and scholarly half . Parson Smith kept a diary , as dry a document as I have often read . He had no time to spare , and his brief entries are abbreviated down to the finest possible point . For example , we ...
... Boston , the culti- vated and scholarly half . Parson Smith kept a diary , as dry a document as I have often read . He had no time to spare , and his brief entries are abbreviated down to the finest possible point . For example , we ...
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... Boston . Paid Mr. Oliver for a cut whigg £ 10.00 . " But this is nothing . Parson Smith came of " kent folk , " and may have had private means beside the salary of eight hundred dollars . Do BEGINS AT THE BEGINNING 3.
... Boston . Paid Mr. Oliver for a cut whigg £ 10.00 . " But this is nothing . Parson Smith came of " kent folk , " and may have had private means beside the salary of eight hundred dollars . Do BEGINS AT THE BEGINNING 3.
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... Boston Post - Boy of April 29th tells us that : " Last Tuesday Night the old Meeting - house in Weymouth was burnt to the Ground : and three Bar- rels of Gunpowder , the Town - Stock , being in the Loft , blew up with a great noise ...
... Boston Post - Boy of April 29th tells us that : " Last Tuesday Night the old Meeting - house in Weymouth was burnt to the Ground : and three Bar- rels of Gunpowder , the Town - Stock , being in the Loft , blew up with a great noise ...
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... Boston stocks was the carpenter who made them , his charge for the lumber used being considered over high . The pillory was much frequented by Quakers and other non - orthodox persons . Here , too , were horse- blocks , and rows of ...
... Boston stocks was the carpenter who made them , his charge for the lumber used being considered over high . The pillory was much frequented by Quakers and other non - orthodox persons . Here , too , were horse- blocks , and rows of ...
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Abby Abigail Adams Adams writes Adamses Alice Morse Earle American amuse beautiful BOSTON BLOCKADE Braintree called coat Congress Court Cranch daugh daughter dear delightful diamonds diary distress dollars Dorchester Heights drawing-room dress Duchess of Bedford eight England fancy fashion father fire flowers girls give gown half hand happy hear heart Hill honor hope hour hundred John Adams John Quincy Adams kind ladies letters live London looked Massachusetts meeting-house ment mind ministers mother Nathaniel Hawthorne never night o'clock Parson Smith person Philadelphia Portia pound pretty Princess Province House Queen Quincy received ribbon Richmond Hill round royal fam Samuel Adams satin scene seat shillings sister soldiers soon tell thing thought tion told town trimmed Washington week Weymouth wife winter wish women wreaths young
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Página 213 - To assist us in this great castle, and render less attendance necessary, bells are wholly wanting, not one single one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can obtain.
Página 209 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Página 134 - I long to hear that you have declared an independency — and by the way, in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
Página 135 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival.
Página 135 - Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states.
Página 101 - Dignity, ease, and complacency, the gentleman and the soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face. Those lines of Dryden instantly occurred to me: "' Mark his majestic fabric! He's a temple Sacred by birth, and built by hands divine; His soul's the deity that lodges there; Nor is the pile unworthy of the god...
Página 97 - And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them : remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
Página 135 - I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Women in U.S. History: An Annotated Bibliography Common Women Collective Sin vista previa disponible - 1976 |