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Common terms and phrases2d series Adams affairs American American Antiquarian Society Antiquarian Society April Boston Braintree called Cambridge Charles Charles Deane Charles Francis Adams Charlestown charter church colony Committee Company Congregationalism Connecticut copy corporate Council Court Deane Deane's Devens Dexter Dorchester duties dyed of ye early ecclesiastical elected England towns English freemen George Governor Harvard College hath Henry Historical Society inhabitants interest James John John Winthrop King's Cove Kohl's land late letter Library LL.D manuscript March March 31 Massachusetts Bay meeting memoir ment morning night officers original paper parish persons plantation Plymouth political Preached present President printed Proceedings records river Robert Gorges sailed Salem Samuel says selectmen ship Smith Thomas tion took town-meeting Visited volume vote Weymouth wife William wind at N. E. Winthrop wrote ye smallpox Popular passagesPage 271 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. Page 196 - Elizabeth under the name of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies. Page 175 - Clock in the morning, and presently upon the beating of the drum, a general meeting of the inhabitants of the plantation at the meeting house, there to settle (and set down) such orders as may tend to the general good as aforesaid; and every man to be bound thereby without gainsaying or resistance. Page 177 - one of the most ancient as well as one of the most striking and practical of the characteristics of English institutions... Page 8 - The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's... Page 174 - The institutions of Massachusetts or Maryland, such at least among them as have been handed down from the foundation of those colonies, are not simply the institutions of Massachusetts and Maryland. They are part of the general institutions of the English people, as those are again part of the general institutions of the Teutonic race, and those are again part of the general institutions of the whole Aryan family. Page 452 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country. Page 350 - Afterwards they (as many as were able) began to plant ther corne, in which servise Squanto stood them in great stead, showing them both ye maner how to set it, and after how to dress & tend it. Page 196 - Sober, earnest, and thoughtful men, it was no Utopia, no New Atlantis, no realization of a splendid dream, which they had at heart, but the establishment of the divine principle of Authority on the common interest and the common consent; the making, by a contribution from the freewill of all, a power which should curb and guide the free-will of each for the general good. Page 434 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman. Bibliographic information
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