The New England Bibliopolist, Or Notices of Books on American History, Biography, Genealogy, Etc, Volumes 7-9David Clapp & Son, 1893 - Local history |
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Page 117 - The History of the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as first President of the United States.
Page 106 - Two organizations known as the Sons of the Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution have grown out of the celebration of the Centenary of American Independence in 1876.
Page 92 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 86 - As the primary end of his'tory is to record truth, Impartiality, Fidelity, and Accuracy, are the fundamental qualities of an Historian. He must neither be a panegyrist nor a satirist. He must not enter into faction, nor give scope to affection...
Page 10 - William Sargent of Maiden, New England, and his Descendants in America. By AARON SARGENT of Somerville, Mass.
Page 40 - General Court of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of "New York, Office of the Society, 37 Liberty Street. New York. 1896.
Page 73 - HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Remarks on some rare German prints of New York and Quebec, and on contributions in the year 1781 by the churches of Massachusetts to the distressed inhabitants of South Carolina and Georgia. [By Samuel Abbott Green, MD] [Boston, 1894.] 8vo, pp.
Page 106 - It being evident, from a steady decline of a proper celebration of the National holidays of the United States of America, that popular concern in the events and men of the War of the Revolution is gradually declining, and that such lack of interest is attributable, not so much to the lapse of time and the rapidly increasing flood of immigration from foreign countries, as to the neglect, on the part of descendants of Revolutionary heroes, to perform their duty in keeping before the public mind the...
Page 50 - Such is my fate, that the twenty years of service through which I have passed with so much toil and danger, have profited me nothing, and at this very day I do not possess a roof in Spain that I can call my own; if I wish to eat or sleep, I have nowhere to go but to the inn or tavern, and most times lack wherewith to pay the bill.
Page 7 - America has certainly, upon this occasion, drawn forth her first characters ; there are upon this Convention many gentlemen of the most respectable abilities, and so far as I can discover, of the purest intentions.