Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of BostonJames R. Osgood and Company, 1873 - 484 páginas |
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... wall and when resign . " To see or not to see is the problem presented to him who walks the streets of town or village . What to one is a heap of ruins or a blank wall may to another become the abode of the greatest of our ancestors or ...
... wall and when resign . " To see or not to see is the problem presented to him who walks the streets of town or village . What to one is a heap of ruins or a blank wall may to another become the abode of the greatest of our ancestors or ...
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... walls in the form of wainscot . * It is comparatively recent that Boston began to be a city of brick and stone . A few solidly built structures were scattered here and there over a wide area ; but the mass were of wood , in spite of ...
... walls in the form of wainscot . * It is comparatively recent that Boston began to be a city of brick and stone . A few solidly built structures were scattered here and there over a wide area ; but the mass were of wood , in spite of ...
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... wall , " cutlass and corslet of steel , and his trusty sword of Damascus , " with its curved point and Arabic inscription . The manner of wearing the hair became very early an apple of discord . Those of the straitest sect , and it may ...
... wall , " cutlass and corslet of steel , and his trusty sword of Damascus , " with its curved point and Arabic inscription . The manner of wearing the hair became very early an apple of discord . Those of the straitest sect , and it may ...
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... walls and pillars were hung with the escutcheons of the King , Sir Edmund Andros , Governors Dudley , Shute , Burnet , Bel- cher , and Shirley , and formed a most striking contrast with the bare walls of the Puritan churches of the town ...
... walls and pillars were hung with the escutcheons of the King , Sir Edmund Andros , Governors Dudley , Shute , Burnet , Bel- cher , and Shirley , and formed a most striking contrast with the bare walls of the Puritan churches of the town ...
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... walls the same plan is observed . This peculiar arrangement was the chef d'oeuvre of a former Superintendent of Burials ; many stones were removed from their original posi- tions , and now give effect to the proverb , " to lie like a ...
... walls the same plan is observed . This peculiar arrangement was the chef d'oeuvre of a former Superintendent of Burials ; many stones were removed from their original posi- tions , and now give effect to the proverb , " to lie like a ...
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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.