Police Records and Recollections, Or, Boston by Daylight and Gaslight: For Two Hundred and Forty Years |
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Page 6 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be bated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, — then pity, — then embrace.
Page 32 - Rome the Pope is come, amid ten thousand fears, With fiery serpents to be seen, at eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. Don't you hear my little bell, go chink, chink, chink? Please give me a little money, to buy my Pope some drink.
Page 32 - Don't you remember the fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot ? I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be^ ,, forgot.
Page 29 - This is something like 11 minutes in a year too much. Pope Gregory Thirteenth reformed the calendar by omitting 10 days in October, 1552, in order to bring back the Vernal Equinox to the same day as at the Council of Nice, AD 325 ; which reformation was followed by Parliament, as above stated, by which 11 days in September, 1752, were left out, calling the 3d the 14th. This mode of reckoning is called " New Style," according to which, every year divisible by 4, unless it is divisible by 100, without...
Page 19 - England this year, said of Boston : " The buildings, like their women, are neat and handsome, and their streets, like the hearts of their men, are paved with pebbles. They have four churches, built with clapboards and shingles, and supplied with four ministers, — one a scholar, one a gentleman, one a dunce, and one a clown. The .captain of a ship met his wife in the street after a long voyage, and kissed her, for which he was fined ten shillings. What a happiness, thought I, do we enjoy in old...
Page 303 - ... sold into slavery, contemplated death like a Christian. As he was about to leave Boston on another cruise to buy, steal, starve, oil, measure and sell men, and women, and children, this was the introduction to the will he made in 1763...
Page 341 - Your acts will at all times be subject to the observation and the animadversion of the publie, and on the stand-point where you commence, and the course which you pursue, depends not only much of the welfare of the community in which you move, but the credit of the department to which you belong, and your own success as an officer and a man. At the commencement, do not forget that in this business your character is your capital. Deal honorably with all persons, and hold your word sacred, no matter...
Page 57 - As respects The Hill, it consists principally of drunkards, harlots, spendthrifts, and outcasts from the country ; in truth, Beelzebub holds a court there, and almost every Town in the Commonwealth has a representative. These are great nuisances, but every large town has them, whether governed by Selectmen, or Mayor and Aldermen, in spite of jails and workhouses, and probably will till the millennium.