A History of Boston: The Metropolis of Massachusetts, from Its Origin to the Present Period; with Some Account of the Environs |
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... feet , a spring burst into the well several feet from the bottom , and flowed with such rapidity as to fill it to the height of forty feet in twenty - five minutes . Next morning they undertook to draw out the water by means of a whip ...
... feet , a spring burst into the well several feet from the bottom , and flowed with such rapidity as to fill it to the height of forty feet in twenty - five minutes . Next morning they undertook to draw out the water by means of a whip ...
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... feet high , being one of the most lofty and elegant of the kind , and a noted sea - mark . The English name , Boston , appears to have been a contraction of Botolph's town , which name the place bore in old time , in honour of Botolph ...
... feet high , being one of the most lofty and elegant of the kind , and a noted sea - mark . The English name , Boston , appears to have been a contraction of Botolph's town , which name the place bore in old time , in honour of Botolph ...
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... feet and a half deep , from the fourth of November to March 23d . Gov. Winthrop relates that a party of thirty men started on a fair day . ( Jan. 13 ) for the purpose of cutting wood on Spectacle Island . The next night a N. E. storm ...
... feet and a half deep , from the fourth of November to March 23d . Gov. Winthrop relates that a party of thirty men started on a fair day . ( Jan. 13 ) for the purpose of cutting wood on Spectacle Island . The next night a N. E. storm ...
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... feet high , not corpulent , long favoured , with a dark blue eye , high forehead , long beard , and dark hair , which he wore in the form of a natural wig . CHAPTER XIX . " See wide dominions ravished from the deep , And changed ...
... feet high , not corpulent , long favoured , with a dark blue eye , high forehead , long beard , and dark hair , which he wore in the form of a natural wig . CHAPTER XIX . " See wide dominions ravished from the deep , And changed ...
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... feet above the sea , presented then on its northwest brow an ab- rupt declivity , long after known as Copp's hill steeps . Its summit , almost level , extended between Prince and Charter streets towards Christ's church . Thence south a ...
... feet above the sea , presented then on its northwest brow an ab- rupt declivity , long after known as Copp's hill steeps . Its summit , almost level , extended between Prince and Charter streets towards Christ's church . Thence south a ...
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Page 16 - ... 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. In witness whereof we have...
Page 353 - 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.
Page 267 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 248 - 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.
Page 346 - 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.
Page 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. 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 290 - Friends ! Brethren ! Countrymen ! That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in this harbor; the hour of destruction or manly opposition to the machinations of tyranny stares you in the face...