 | Bayard Taylor - Europe - 1862 - 542 pages
...suggests com mercial activity only ; Philadelphia, from the Delaware, i the tamest of cities ; but Boston, from any side, owing to her elevation, has...stately charm which her prouder sisters do not possess. f A Boston Sunday, in Winter, is a day of sack-cloth and ashes. A foreigner would suppose there was... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1881 - 532 pages
...suggests commercial activity only : Philadelphia., from the Delaware, is the tamest of cifies; but Boston, from any side, owing to her elevation, has a stately charm which her pronder sisters do not possess " — BAYARD TAYLOR. "In her southern suburbs, however, — in Roxbury... | |
 | E. L. Robbins - Massachusetts - 1891 - 144 pages
...suggests commercial activity only ; Philadelphia, from the Delaware, is the tamest of cities ; but Boston, from any side, owing to her elevation, has...stately charm which her prouder sisters do not possess.' And another and even more distinguished author has written : ' In her southern suburbs, however, Boston... | |
 | E. L. Robbins - Massachusetts - 1892
...suggests commercial activity only ; Philadelphia, from the Delaware, is the tamest of cities j but Boston, from any side, owing to her elevation, has...stately charm which her prouder sisters do not possess.' And another and even more distinguished author has written : ' In her southern suburbs, however, Boston... | |
 | Pratt Institute - 1896 - 592 pages
...Old Colony Steamboat Company. only ; Philadelphia, from the Delaware, is the tamest of cities ; but Boston, from any side, owing to her elevation, has...stately charm which her prouder sisters do not possess." "In her southern suburbs, however, Boston may challenge comparison with almost any city in the world.... | |
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The approach to Boston is almost the only picturesque city view we have on the Atlantic coast. New York, from the Bay, suggests commercial activity only ; Philadelphia, from the Delaware, is the tamest of cities ; but Boston, from any side, owing to her... 