Boston Common; a Diary of Notable Events: Incidents, and Neighboring OccurrencesChristopher Publishing House, 1914 - 288 Seiten |
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Boston Common, a Diary of Notable Events, Incidents, and Neighboring Occurrences Samuel Barber Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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acres Adams afternoon APRIL artillery AUGUST AUGUST 23 Back Bay Beacon Hill Beacon Street Beacon Street Mall beautiful bells Blackstone Boston Common Boylston Street boys British buildings built Bunker Hill Captain caused celebration Charles River Charles Street Charlestown citizens Colonel Colony colored corner cows crowds died drew Edward Everett encamped erected Faneuil Hall fence fire fireworks flags Flagstaff foot Franklin Frog Pond Governor Granary Burying Ground grand Hancock harbor honor horses House hung Indian JANUARY John JULY JUNE land Liberty Tree MARCH Massachusetts Mayor Monument Neck night NOVEMBER o'clock OCTOBER OCTOBER 25 Old Elm Old South Church oration parade Park Street Park Street Church passed through Boston planted President Public Garden Quincy Regiment Samuel says School seen SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 17 side soldiers stone stood streets and Common town Tremont Street troops visited Boston visited the Common walked Warbler Washington Wharf William Winthrop
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Seite 61 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers.
Seite 144 - He was a pious and prudent man; She, a discreet and virtuous woman. Their youngest son, In filial regard to their memory, Places this stone.
Seite 143 - Maintained a large family comfortably; And brought up thirteen children and seven grand-children, Reputably. From this instance, reader, Be encouraged to diligence in thy calling And distrust not Providence.
Seite 11 - They who reared it, should their banner be triumphant, were to pour sunshine over New England's rugged hills, and scatter flower seeds throughout the soil. Jollity and gloom were contending for an empire. Midsummer eve had come, bringing deep verdure to the forest, and roses in her lap, of a more vivid hue than the tender buds of Spring. But May, or her mirthful spirit, dwelt all the year round at Merry Mount, sporting...
Seite 280 - ... gush forth from the doors of the church. Now that there was an end, they needed other breath, more fit to support the gross and earthly life into which they relapsed, than that atmosphere which the preacher had converted into words of flame, and had burdened with the rich fragrance of his thought. In the open air their rapture broke into speech. The street and the market-place absolutely babbled, from side to side, with applauses of the minister.
Seite 232 - To the men of Boston who died for their country on land and sea in the war which kept the Union whole, destroyed slavery and maintained the Constitution, the grateful city has built this monument that their example may speak to coming generations.
Seite 110 - AMERICANS ! While from this EMINENCE, scenes of LUXURIANT FERTILITY, of flourishing COMMERCE, and the abodes Of SOCIAL HAPPINESS, meet your view, Forget not THOSE who by their exertions have secured to you these BLESSINGS.
Seite 35 - Coast: the houses are for the most part raised on the Sea-banks and wharfed out with great industry and cost, many of them standing upon piles, close together on each side the streets as in London, and furnished with many fair shops, their materials are Brick, Stone, Lime, handsomely contrived, with three meeting Houses or Churches, and a Townhouse built upon pillars where the Merchants may confer, in the Chambers above they keep their monethly Courts.
Seite 279 - It had indeed a very cheery aspect; the walls being overspread with a kind of stucco, in which fragments of broken glass were plentifully intermixed; so that, when the sunshine fell aslant-wise over the front of the edifice, it glittered and sparkled as if diamonds had been flung against it by the double handful.
Seite 11 - Midsummer eve had come, bringing deep verdure to the forest, and roses in her lap, of a more vivid hue than the tender buds of Spring. But May, or her mirthful spirit, dwelt all the year round at Merry Mount, sporting with the Summer months, and revelling with Autumn, and basking in the glow of Winter's fireside.