Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 4, section c.4.30, page 436 of The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6.:
...rth, has been equally happy.
As I look over the list of the excellent worthies of the first emigrations, I find no one who, in all respects, occupies a nobler place in the early colonial history of Massachusetts than John Winthrop.
Like Vane and Milton, he was a gentleman as well as a Puritan, a cultured and enlightened statesman
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