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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAbolitionists aldermen American Antislavery appointed April army authority battle Boston British building Bunker Hill called Cambridge Capt Captain chapter Charles Charlestown Church citizens city council city government Colonel Colonies command committee Commodore Congress Court Dorchester Dorchester Heights Drake's East Boston election England engraved Episcopal erected Faneuil Hall fire frigate Gage Garrison George given Governor guns Hancock harbor Harvard College Hist History hundred infantry inhabitants John Adams Josiah Quincy July June land Legislature letter March Mass Massachusetts mayor meeting ment militia naval Navy Yard officers Otis party passed Patriots political portrait present President printed Proc Quincy regiments Revolution Roxbury Samuel Samuel Adams selectmen sent ship siege Siege of Boston slavery slaves sloop-of-war South South Boston Street Theodore Parker Thomas thousand tion took town troops United vessels vote Warren Washington Whig William Popular passagesPage 18 - Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the House what is really my opinion. It is, that the Stamp Act be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately ; that the reason for the repeal be assigned, because it was founded on an erroneous principle. Page 655 - Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie — for example, the taint of vanity, any attempt to make a good impression, a favourable appearance — will instantly vitiate the effect. But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Page 15 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, on the subject of the proposed Stamp Act. Page 39 - A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770: By Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment: which with the XlVth Regiment were then Quartered there. With some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe. Page 5 - I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villany on the other, as this writ of assistance is. Page 17 - I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it. It is now an Act that has passed. I would speak with decency of every Act of this House ; but I must beg the indulgence of the House to speak of it with freedom. Page 337 - July, 1874, at the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of the town, and in his paper on the " Old Planters about Boston Harbor," read before the Massachusetts Historical Society, and published in its collections, " the ablest paper, Page 212 - Stuart, coming into the office one day and observing the uncouth figure, added with his pencil a head, wings, and claws, and exclaimed, " That will do for a salamander... Page 221 - When a town meeting was held on any exciting subject, in Faneuil Hall, those only who obtained places near the moderator could even hear the discussion. A few busy or interested individuals easily obtained the management of the most important affairs, in an assembly in which the greater number could have neither voice nor hearing. When the subject was not generally exciting, town meetings were usually composed of selectmen, the town officers, and thirty or forty inhabitants. Page 299 - Police officers can in no sense be regarded as agents or servants of the city. Their duties are of a public nature. Their appointment is devolved on cities and towns by the legislature as a convenient mode of exercising a function of government ; but this does not render them liable for their unlawful and negligent acts. References to this bookFrom Google Scholar“Mind of God”—NotClay McShane - 2008 - Journal of Urban History “Mind of God”—NotClay McShane - Journal of Urban History References from web pagesNEW PUBLICATIONS; THE BOSTON MEMORIAL. THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF ... The Memorial History of Boston Vol. IV FA 267 JSTOR: Fifty Years of Boston. A Memorial Volume Issued in ... Fifty Years of Boston-A Memorial Volume, Issued in commemoration ... Beantown History Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 300 ... Boston History.illustrated: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati New England Journal of History article Bibliographic information
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