Willard's History of GreenfieldKneeland & Eastman, 1838 - 180 من الصفحات |
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... settlement of which commenced in 1671. A company of men in Dedham had obtained a grant of 8000 acres on Pocomptuc river ; the northern boundary of the tract forms the north line of that town ; a sub- sequent grant of seven miles square ...
... settlement of which commenced in 1671. A company of men in Dedham had obtained a grant of 8000 acres on Pocomptuc river ; the northern boundary of the tract forms the north line of that town ; a sub- sequent grant of seven miles square ...
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... settlement of the whites among them , they have constantly been dwindling in numbers : they continue to be driven farther and still farther tow- ards the setting sun , by the restless flow of emigration and the cupidity of white men ...
... settlement of the whites among them , they have constantly been dwindling in numbers : they continue to be driven farther and still farther tow- ards the setting sun , by the restless flow of emigration and the cupidity of white men ...
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... settlements of the white people began to surround them , the proprietor assigned them lands on the manor of Conestogo , which they might not part with ; there they have lived many years in friendship with their white neighbors , who ...
... settlements of the white people began to surround them , the proprietor assigned them lands on the manor of Conestogo , which they might not part with ; there they have lived many years in friendship with their white neighbors , who ...
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... settlement of our ancestors in this country , we have a display of the mysterious doings of that Providence , " which shapes our ends , rough hew them how we will , " unfathomable and inscrutable ; and that the leading and guiding hand ...
... settlement of our ancestors in this country , we have a display of the mysterious doings of that Providence , " which shapes our ends , rough hew them how we will , " unfathomable and inscrutable ; and that the leading and guiding hand ...
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... from small cause ; it often has such freaks now . 1718. Green River grants . At a town Meeting in March , the proprietors appointed a committee to make proposals to the town in order to the settlement of 24 HISTORY OF.
... from small cause ; it often has such freaks now . 1718. Green River grants . At a town Meeting in March , the proprietors appointed a committee to make proposals to the town in order to the settlement of 24 HISTORY OF.
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الصفحة 91 - I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed ! Thus in the...
الصفحة 155 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
الصفحة 81 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
الصفحة 147 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
الصفحة 151 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
الصفحة 105 - Let Vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some Gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down ; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook, or fountain's murmuring wave. And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.
الصفحة 56 - Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise; From winding glen, from upland brown, They poured each hardy tenant down. Nor slacked the messenger his pace; He showed the sign, he named the place, And, pressing forward like the wind, Left clamour and surprise behind.
الصفحة 151 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon ; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams LESSON XV.
الصفحة 15 - Look now abroad — another race has filled These populous borders — wide the wood recedes, And towns shoot up, and fertile realms are tilled : The land is full of harvests and green meads ; Streams numberless that many a fountain feeds.
الصفحة 108 - As the long train Of ages glide away, the sons of men, The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength of years, matron and maid, The speechless babe, and the gray-headed man Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow them.