A Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston During Two Centuries: From September 17, 1630, to September 17, 1830 |
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adopted Almshouse ancestors annual appointed Assessors Benjamin Board of Aldermen branches character city authorities city charter City Council city debt city government city of Boston Common Council consequence considered constituted Court deemed duty effect efficient election engines erected established estates executive exercise existing expedient expenditures expense Faneuil Hall Market fellow-citizens firewards HARRISON GRAY OTIS honor House of Industry hundred improvement individual inhabitants interest Isaac Parker John John Chipman Gray John Prescott JOSIAH QUINCY labors land laws Legislature Leverett Street liberty market house Massachusetts Mayor and Aldermen measures ment nature object occasion opinion organization Overseers passed persons police poor population present principles proceedings proposed proprietors prosperity purchase recommended relation respect responsibility result Samuel Samuel Turell Armstrong School Committee selectmen South Boston spirit Stephen Hooper superintendence Thomas Kendall thousand dollars tion town government vicinity views voting lists Ward Wharf whole William
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Page 357 - Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom, none but virtue; virtue, none but knowledge; and neither freedom, nor virtue, nor knowledge, has any vigor or immortal hope, except in the principles of the Christian faith, and in the sanctions of the Christian religion.
Page 315 - Approach : but awful ! lo ! the /Egerian grot, Where, nobly pensive, St. John* sat and thought ; Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole, And the bright flame was shot through Marchmont's soul. Let such, such only, tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country, and be poor...
Page 360 - Yet, strong in weakness, there they stand, On yonder ice-bound rock, Stern and resolved, that faithful band, To meet fate's rudest shock. Though anguish rends the father's breast, For them, his dearest and his best, With him the waste who trod — Though tears that freeze, the mother sheds Upon her children's houseless heads — The Christian turns to God ! VIII.
Page 199 - ... in his power, to cause all negligence, carelessness and positive violation of duty to be duly prosecuted and punished...
Page 9 - And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every town within this province, having the number of fifty householders or upwards, shall be constantly provided of a schoolmaster to teach children and youth to read and write; and where any town or towns have the number of one hundred families or householders, there shall also be a grammar school set up in every such town, and some discreet person of good conversation, well instructed in the tongues...
Page 305 - that notice be given to the New England Society for the promotion of Manufactures and the Mechanic Arts...
Page 10 - That the Town Agreeably to the Usage in England, and (as we understand) in Some time past practiced here, Do Nominate and Appoint a Certain Number of Gentlemen, of Liberal Education, Together with some of ye Revd Ministers of the Town to be Inspectors of the Sd Schoole under that name Title or denomination.
Page 369 - O then forget To whom ye owe the sacred debt — The Pilgrim race revered ! The men who set faith's burning lights Upon these everlasting heights, To guide their children through the years of time ; The men that glorious law who taugh't, Unshrinking liberty of thought, And roused the nations with the truth sublime.
Page 1 - The freemen of every township shall have power to make such by-laws and constitutions as may concern the welfare of their town, provided they be not of a criminal, but only of a prudential nature, and that their penalties exceed not 20s. for one offense, and that they be not repugnant to the public laws and orders of the country.
Page 28 - When the subject was not generally exciting, town meetings were usually composed of the selectmen, the town officers, and thirty or forty inhabitants. Those who thus came were, for the most part, drawn to it from some official duty or private interest, which, when performed or attained, they generally troubled themselves but little, or not at all, about the other business of the meeting.