The Old South Leaflets: Annual serOld South Meeting House., 1883 - United States |
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... liberty . . . . The native of New England practises the art of government in the small sphere within his reach ; he accustoms himself to those forms without which liberty can only advance by revolu- tions ; he imbibes their spirit ; he ...
... liberty . . . . The native of New England practises the art of government in the small sphere within his reach ; he accustoms himself to those forms without which liberty can only advance by revolu- tions ; he imbibes their spirit ; he ...
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... liberty of conscience , and in behalf of the Baptists , Quakers , and other sectaries that had been under persecution , ascribing the Indian wars , and other distresses that had befallen the country , to that persecution , as so many ...
... liberty of conscience , and in behalf of the Baptists , Quakers , and other sectaries that had been under persecution , ascribing the Indian wars , and other distresses that had befallen the country , to that persecution , as so many ...
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... liberty and glory . I recollect no time of my life anterior to my enthusiasm for anecdotes of glorious deeds , and to my projects of travelling over the world to acquire fame . Republican anecdotes always delighted me ; and , when my ...
... liberty and glory . I recollect no time of my life anterior to my enthusiasm for anecdotes of glorious deeds , and to my projects of travelling over the world to acquire fame . Republican anecdotes always delighted me ; and , when my ...
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... Liberty ; and , had she then been vanquished , neither hope nor asylum would have remained for her . The oppressors and oppressed were to receive a powerful lesson ; the great work was to be accomplished , or the rights of humanity were ...
... Liberty ; and , had she then been vanquished , neither hope nor asylum would have remained for her . The oppressors and oppressed were to receive a powerful lesson ; the great work was to be accomplished , or the rights of humanity were ...
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... liberty . " Where are nobler words of aspiration for our country than this simple testimony by a youth of nineteen , pouring out his heart to his wife of seventeen ? For seven weeks laboring through the sea , yet sustained by thoughts ...
... liberty . " Where are nobler words of aspiration for our country than this simple testimony by a youth of nineteen , pouring out his heart to his wife of seventeen ? For seven weeks laboring through the sea , yet sustained by thoughts ...
Common terms and phrases
afterwards American angel of Independence avail the plough bed and board bounteous seas Bradford called church colony Concord corner of Park COTTON MATHER court day remembered DECEMBER 16 England English equal rights Europe's night fame FANEUIL HALL father France Franklin freedom fail freemen friendship George Ticknor happy port heart honest trade Honor human rights king labor light in Europe's living Lord loved Mount Vernon nation NOBIS FIRST SERIES ocean Old South Church Old South Leaflets Oliver Cromwell Olmütz orator PATRIB SIT DEUS plant and eat plough or sail Plymouth Colony Pole-star of light port that spied Republican sail Or land sail Which wafted SAMUEL ADAMS seas that never SICUT PATRIB SIT SIT DEUS NOBIS soldier spied the sail spirit town-meeting turned uncle Benjamin unto virtue wafted Lafayette Washington wife William Bradford words youthful stranger
Popular passages
Page 4 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die,...
Page 6 - ... without shelter : without means : surrounded by hostile tribes. Shut now the volume of history, and tell me, on any principle of human probability, what shall be the fate of this handful of adventurers. Tell me, man of military science ! in how many months were they all swept off by the thirty savage tribes enumerated within the early limits of New England ? Tell me, politician ! how long did the shadow of a colony, on which your conventions and treaties had not smiled, languish on the distant...
Page 6 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Page 1 - Call a county meeting, and the drunken loungers at and about the court houses would have collected, the distances being too great for the good people and the industrious generally to attend. The character of those who really met would have been the measure of the weight they would have had in the scale of public opinion. As Cato, then, concluded every speech with the words, " Carthago delenda est," so do I every opinion, with the injunction, " divide the counties into wards.
Page 7 - But my father in the mean time, — from a view of the expense of a college education, which having so large a family he could not well afford, and the mean living many so educated were afterwards able to obtain...
Page 5 - Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven-^ who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.
Page 1 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation.
Page 2 - I now took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces ; my brother, thinking it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on composing occasional ballads. One was called The Lighthouse Tragedy...
Page 1 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life; and little or no notice was ever taken of what related to the victuals on the table...