Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of BostonJames R. Osgood and Company, 1873 - 484 páginas |
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... present line of Causeway Street . Only the most salient features are here given ; other interesting peculiarities will be alluded to in their places . At high tides the sea swept across the narrow neck , and there is every reason to ...
... present line of Causeway Street . Only the most salient features are here given ; other interesting peculiarities will be alluded to in their places . At high tides the sea swept across the narrow neck , and there is every reason to ...
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... present number is sixteen , just double the original number . The paving of the public thoroughfares seems to have begun at a very early period . Jossleyn , describing Boston in 1663 , says most of the streets " are paved with pebble ...
... present number is sixteen , just double the original number . The paving of the public thoroughfares seems to have begun at a very early period . Jossleyn , describing Boston in 1663 , says most of the streets " are paved with pebble ...
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... present any remarkable architectural features . It has an air of solidity and massiveness that seems to bespeak the inten- tion of its builders that it should remain where it was placed . This purpose is likely to be set at naught by ...
... present any remarkable architectural features . It has an air of solidity and massiveness that seems to bespeak the inten- tion of its builders that it should remain where it was placed . This purpose is likely to be set at naught by ...
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... present drawings with both a double and single tier of windows . Two rows were adopted , the lower ones giving that prince of punsters , Mather Byles , an opportunity of saying that he had heard of the canons of the church , but had ...
... present drawings with both a double and single tier of windows . Two rows were adopted , the lower ones giving that prince of punsters , Mather Byles , an opportunity of saying that he had heard of the canons of the church , but had ...
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... present one , had an apology for a tower , on the top of which was a crown , and above this a cock for a vane . A gallery was added after the enlargement in 1710 , and the pulpit was on the north side . Opposite OLD KING'S CHAPEL . was ...
... present one , had an apology for a tower , on the top of which was a crown , and above this a cock for a vane . A gallery was added after the enlargement in 1710 , and the pulpit was on the north side . Opposite OLD KING'S CHAPEL . was ...
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afterwards Alley American artillery Athenæum battle Beacon Street became Benjamin Boston Bostonians Bowdoin Boylston Brattle Street brick British building built Bunker Hill called Captain Charles Charles Bulfinch Charlestown Coffee House Colonel colony command Common Congress Copp's Hill corner Cornhill Court Custom House Dock Square early England erected Faneuil Hall father feet fire Franklin frigate front Gage Governor guns Hancock Hanover Street Harrison Gray Otis honor Hull hundred Hutchinson James John John Adams Josiah Quincy King's Chapel known Lafayette land Lane Liberty lived mansion Massachusetts merchant monument Neck North End occupied officers Old South Old State House original Otis Peter Faneuil present Province House Quincy regiment removed residence Samuel Adams School ship side society Square Stamp Act stands stone stood Street Church Tavern theatre Thomas tion took town trees Tremont Street troops vessel Warren Washington Webster West Wharf William Winthrop
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Página 296 - Yes, that blessed name imparts Comfort to those, who in the grave have sown The seed, that they had garnered in their hearts, Their bread of life, alas ! no more their own. Into its furrows shall we all be cast, In the sure faith, that we shall rise again At the great harvest, when the...
Página 184 - Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts,— she moves,— she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms!
Página 183 - And around the bows and along the side The heavy hammers and mallets plied, Till after many a week, at length, Wonderful for form and strength, Sublime in its enormous bulk, Loomed aloft the...
Página 273 - IN that building, long and low, With its windows all a-row, Like the port-holes of a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin, Backward down their threads so thin Dropping each a hempen bulk. At the end, an open door; Squares of sunshine on the floor Light the long and dusky lane ; And the whirring of a wheel, Dull and drowsy, makes me feel All its spokes are in my brain. As the spinners to the end Downward go and reascend. Gleam...
Página 84 - I cry aloud to all and sundry, in my plainest accents, and at the very tiptop of my voice, Here it is, gentlemen! Here is the good liquor ! Walk up, walk up, gentlemen, walk up, walk up ! Here is the superior stuff!
Página 181 - Others may use the ocean as their road, Only the English make it their abode, Whose ready sails with every wind can fly, And make a covenant with the inconstant sky : Our oaks secure, as if they there took root, We tread on billows with a steady foot.
Página 51 - Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Página 266 - Should the tempest of war overshadow our land, Its bolts could ne'er rend freedom's temple asunder; For, unmoved, at its portal would Washington stand. And repulse, with his breast, the assaults of the...
Página 75 - It being one chief project of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...
Página 34 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.