Boston Two Hundred Years Ago: Or, The Romantic Story of Miss Ann Carter (daughter of One of the First Settlers) and the Celebrated Indian Chief, Thundersquall; with Many Humorous Reminiscences and Events of Olden Time

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1830 - 16 pages
 

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Page 11 - And of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I have but means to transport a colony, I would rather live here than anywhere. And if it did not maintain itself, were we but once indifferently well fitted, let us starve.
Page 12 - Full are thy cities with the sons of Art; And trade, and joy, in every busy street, Mingling are heard; even Drudgery himself, As at the car he sweats, or dusty hews The palace stone, looks gay.
Page 4 - Lopez dressed in my savage attire, holding in one hand my bow and arrows, and in the other my European...
Page 1 - Whate'er in life may be my varied lot, Boston, dear Boston, ne'er shall be forgot.
Page 7 - Drunkenness* which lasts a long time among the savages, and is a kind of disease in their constitutions generally, prevents their doing much mischief while the fit is on them. So k proved on this occasion.
Page 3 - ... twice wounded in his defence. Oh that I had descended to the land of shadows, that I might have escaped the miseries which awaited me on earth! But the spirits had ordained otherwise; and I was led away by the remaining fugitives to St. Augustine. In this town, lately built by the Spaniards, I ran the risk of being carried off to work in the mines of Mexico.

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