"The City and the Sea,": With Other Cambridge Contributions, in Aid of the Hospital FundHelen Leah Reed |
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Page 90 - My dear wife, we are here in a paradise. Though we have not beef and mutton etc., yet (God be praised) we want them not; our Indian corn answers for all. Yet here is fowl and fish in great plenty.
Page 92 - As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
Page 92 - ... did desire it but they. Mr. Hooker only did object against my going thither for being but young and unexperienced, and there being an old yet...
Page 70 - ... companions pointed out that the gleam of the blades during this last performance was the only thing which made a red republic seem a possibility. The nearest approach to a disturbance was provoked by a man who utterly refused to keep still during the speeches, and gave forth awful vociferations. At first all thought him a Bonapartist who had come in to make trouble, and they were going to put him out by main force. He succeeded, however, in explaining that he did not aim at a revolution, but...
Page 87 - Company, to the end to pass the Seas (under God's protection) to inhabit and continue in New England: Provided always, that before the last of September next, the whole Government, together with the Patent for the said Plantation, be first, by an order of Court, legally transferred and established to remain with us and others which shall inhabit upon the said Plantation...
Page 61 - Deputes ; but here it did not seem childish, — only natural ; as where Deschanel, during his own speech, had once turned and taken Victor Hugo's hand and clapped him caressingly on the shoulder. The crowd dispersed more easily than I expected ; for I had said to my French neighbor that there would be little chance for us in case of a fire, and he had shrugged his shoulders, looked up to heaven, and said, "Adieu ! " I went out through a side entrance, where Hugo was just before me : it was hardly...
Page 95 - Diverse people in old England of my dear friends desired me to go to New England, there to live together, and some went before and writ to me of providing a place for a company of us, one of which was John Bridge, ^ and I saw diverse families of my Christian friends who were resolved thither to go with me.
Page 90 - We here enjoy God and Jesus Christ. Is not this enough? What would we have more? I thank God, I like so well to be here, as I do not repent my coming; and if I were to come again, I would not have altered my course, though I had foreseen all these afflictions.
Page 124 - Etty who will not, understand. 24th. — Charming little Canary ! I have spent the forenoon with her at the piano. I like her playing when she does not attempt my favorite songs.