America, Picturesque and Descriptive, المجلد 3H.T. Coates & Company, 1900 |
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... banks , extensive blocks of stores , and the headquaters of the leading trades of New England , the boot and shoe , cotton and woollen , dry goods , paper and wool merchants , Boston being the greatest wool mart in the country . When ...
... banks , extensive blocks of stores , and the headquaters of the leading trades of New England , the boot and shoe , cotton and woollen , dry goods , paper and wool merchants , Boston being the greatest wool mart in the country . When ...
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... the river , and there are also large cotton mills . General Nathaniel P. Banks was a native of Waltham . To the northward and about twelve miles from Boston is the quiet village of Lex- 64 AMERICA , PICTURESQUE AND DESCRIPTIVE .
... the river , and there are also large cotton mills . General Nathaniel P. Banks was a native of Waltham . To the northward and about twelve miles from Boston is the quiet village of Lex- 64 AMERICA , PICTURESQUE AND DESCRIPTIVE .
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... banks with houses , and flowing into Ipswich Bay north of the peninsula of Cape Ann . To the westward is Andover , where the thrifty Puritan Fathers , having bought the domain from the Indians " for twenty - six dollars and sixty - four ...
... banks with houses , and flowing into Ipswich Bay north of the peninsula of Cape Ann . To the westward is Andover , where the thrifty Puritan Fathers , having bought the domain from the Indians " for twenty - six dollars and sixty - four ...
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... banks . It is a vigorous stream , having fre- quent waterfalls and carrying a powerful current , the name appropriately meaning " the swift water . " Oliver Wendell Holmes writes of it in The School Boy : " Do pilgrims find their way to ...
... banks . It is a vigorous stream , having fre- quent waterfalls and carrying a powerful current , the name appropriately meaning " the swift water . " Oliver Wendell Holmes writes of it in The School Boy : " Do pilgrims find their way to ...
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... Banks . " The odd old town around the harbor has seen little change for years , but the newer portions are greatly improved , having many imposing buildings , including a fine City Hall . The numerous churches have gained for it the ...
... Banks . " The odd old town around the harbor has seen little change for years , but the newer portions are greatly improved , having many imposing buildings , including a fine City Hall . The numerous churches have gained for it the ...
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American Arkansas River attractive banks Bay of Fundy Boston Bow River British broad buildings built canyon Cape Cape Ann Cape Cod Cascades Casco Bay cataract chief church cliffs coast colony Colorado Cotton Mather crosses deep descends district dred east eastern eastward England enormous extensive famous feet high forests French glacier gold gorge grand granite harbor hills House hundred and fifty hundred feet elevation hundred miles Indians Island Lake land Louisbourg magnificent Massachusetts miles long Mississippi moun Mount Narragansett Narragansett Bay nearly Newport northern northward Nova Scotia numbers ocean Pacific Park passes peaks peninsula Pennacook population Presidential range Puritan railway range region ridge rising Rockies rocks route sand settlement ships shore side slope southern southward square miles stream Street stretching summit tains Tennessee River thirty thousand feet tion town trees twenty valley village western westward White Mountains wide
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الصفحة 168 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts!
الصفحة 53 - Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook the mighty deep.
الصفحة 168 - Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace !" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.
الصفحة 163 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
الصفحة 292 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
الصفحة 53 - AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck once red with heroes...
الصفحة 57 - We come as Americans to mark a spot which must forever be dear to us and our posterity. We wish that whosoever, in all coming time, shall turn his eye hither, may behold that the place is not undistinguished where the first great battle of the Revolution was fought. We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age.
الصفحة 58 - ... not undistinguished, where the first great battle of the revolution was fought. We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age. We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.
الصفحة 24 - Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia...
الصفحة 54 - Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!