Proceedings of the Brookline Historical Society at the Annual MeetingThe Society, 1911 - Brookline (Mass.) |
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Adams annual meeting appointed April ARTICLE Aspinwall attended avenue Benefactors Board of Trustees Boston Boylston Brookline Historical Society building built Chancellor CHARLES F CHARLES HENRY STEARNS CHARLES KNOWLES church Clark Clerk committee of three Committee on Papers Committee on Rooms Commonwealth COMSTOCK Coolidge Corner Court Current fund December DESMOND FITZGERALD died Doliber dollars duties Edward Devotion House EDWARD W EDWARD WILD EDWARD WILD BAKER elected erected farm Harvard street Heath street Hill JAMES MACMASTER CODMAN January January 17 January 23 JOHN EMORY Joseph Goddard JOSEPH MCKEY KITTREDGE Lamb land Lexington Lincoln lived Lord March Marinus Willett MARTHA Massachusetts membership ment MERRILL MISS JULIA GODDARD Paul Revere Permanent fund present President Roxbury Rufus George Frederick Samuel School Committee School House Selectmen Thomas tion town meeting town of Brookline Treasurer Voted Warren White William Dawes William H
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Page 18 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 73 - Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.
Page 38 - ... and have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this commonwealth in such case made and provided...
Page 26 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 16 - If the British march By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light...
Page 30 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now so you must be, Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 18 - And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great : ye shall not be afraid of the face of man ; for the judgment is God's : and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Page 28 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore...
Page 80 - God that lifts our comforts high, Or sinks them in the grave ; He gives, and blessed be his name, He takes but what He gave. 4 Peace, all our angry passions then, Let each rebellious...
Page 16 - Conant and some other gentlemen, that if the British went out by water, we would show two lanthorns in the North Church steeple and if by land, one as a signal; for we were apprehensive it would be difficult to cross the Charles River, or get over Boston Neck.