A History of Boston: The Metropolis of Massachusetts, from Its Origin to the Present Period; with Some Account of the EnvironsA. Bowen, 1828 - 427 páginas |
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... appear to have excited any great or lasting interest among the inhabit- ants of this metropolis ; such especially as exhibit most strongly the esprit du corps which has rendered them illustrious for their devotion to the cause of ...
... appear to have excited any great or lasting interest among the inhabit- ants of this metropolis ; such especially as exhibit most strongly the esprit du corps which has rendered them illustrious for their devotion to the cause of ...
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... appears to have been the original design , that the prin- cipal part of this colony of fifteen hundred persons should have settled in one place , which they intended to call by the name of Boston . This design was frustrated by such ...
... appears to have been the original design , that the prin- cipal part of this colony of fifteen hundred persons should have settled in one place , which they intended to call by the name of Boston . This design was frustrated by such ...
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... appears to have spent several weeks in the neighbourhood in attendance upon them , but without doing much good ( as he complained ) for the want of drugs and things fitting to work with . Deaths spread around them , and almost every ...
... appears to have spent several weeks in the neighbourhood in attendance upon them , but without doing much good ( as he complained ) for the want of drugs and things fitting to work with . Deaths spread around them , and almost every ...
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... appear- ed in a contiguous range . The combination of these circum- stances doubtless gave rise to the name of Trimountain . No reason is assigned on the records of the court for changing the name of Trimountain for that of Boston . It ...
... appear- ed in a contiguous range . The combination of these circum- stances doubtless gave rise to the name of Trimountain . No reason is assigned on the records of the court for changing the name of Trimountain for that of Boston . It ...
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... appears to have been a contraction of Botolph's town , which name the place bore in old time , in honour of Botolph , a pious Saxon , who had a monastery there . It is worthy of notice , however , that Iccan - hoe , which was a more ...
... appears to have been a contraction of Botolph's town , which name the place bore in old time , in honour of Botolph , a pious Saxon , who had a monastery there . It is worthy of notice , however , that Iccan - hoe , which was a more ...
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Página 355 - And all the rule, one empire : only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest : then wilt thou not be loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
Página 16 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Página 158 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; *bewray not him that wandereth. f 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Página 305 - ... sacred, the governor ordered the arms deposited as aforesaid, that they might be preserved for their owners, to be seized by a body of soldiers; detained the greatest part of the inhabitants in the town, and compelled the few who were permitted to retire, to leave their most valuable effects behind.
Página 250 - Every man of an immense, crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take up arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child INDEPENDENCE was born. In fifteen years, ie in 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free.
Página 159 - On the South there is a small, but pleasant Common where the Gallants a little before Sun-set walk with their Marmalet-Madams, as we do in Morefields, &c. till the nine a clock Bell rings them home to their respective habitations, when presently the Constables walk their rounds to see good orders kept, and to take up loose people.
Página 69 - One Mrs. Hutchinson, a member of the church of Boston, a woman of a ready wit and bold spirit, brought over with her two dangerous errors : 1 . That the person of the Holy Ghost dwells in a justified person. 2. That no sanctification can help to evidence to us our justification.
Página 16 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Página 348 - It was then generally agreed upon, that our brother Philemon Purmont shall be instructed to become schoolmaster for the teaching and nurturing of children with us.
Página 16 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and the advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...