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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 416 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 260 0 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 230 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 218 0 Browse Search
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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
as familiar as a household word throughout New England. It was a spell wherewith to raise at onced commercial importance, the second town in New England. It was the great slave mart of the North.se, and for the first time from a pulpit of New England was heard an emphatic testimony against thedergone a melancholy change. The garden of New England lay desolate. His once prosperous and weal into requisition, in an encounter with two New England Antinomians, and a certain Anabaptist tailoa:— Slavery may perpetrate anything, and New England can't see it. It can horsewhip the old Commpractical people? Is it that real life in New England lacks those conditions of poetry and romancsings,—part and parcel of the rural life of New England,—one who has grown strong amidst its healthility of Northern Ireland, had emigrated to New England some forty years before, and, after a roughoffee, molasses, and, if the truth be told, New England rum. Threescore years and ten, to use his o[4 more...
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Historical papers (search)
be well for us to remember that at the very time when in New England the Catholic, the Quaker, and the Baptist were banished conservative villages, of which a few are still left in New England, wherein a contemporary of Cotton Mather and Governor Enny generations. The tavern was once renowned throughout New England, and it is still a creditable hostelry. During court tig narrative derogatory to the character of the people of New England at that day, on the score of courage, would be essentialParliament House—was celebrated by the early settlers of New England, and doubtless afforded a good deal of relief to the youolution the powder plot was duly commemorated throughout New England. At that period the celebration of it was discountenanciests and bloody Indians, was the especial terror of the New England settlers, and the anathema maranatha of Puritan pulpits.te, and with the octogenarian few who still linger among us will perish the unwritten history of border life in New England
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), The black men in the Revolution and the war of 1812. (search)
kers, have reason to complain in the matter of persecution. A generation which came after them, with less piety and more bigotry, is especially responsible for the little unpleasantness referred to; and the sufferers from it scarcely need any present championship. They certainly did not wait altogether for the revenges of posterity. If they lost their ears, it is satisfactory to remember that they made those of their mutilators tingle with a rhetoric more sharp than polite. A worthy New England deacon once described a brother in the church as a very good man Godward, but rather hard man-ward. It cannot be denied that some very satisfactory steps have been taken in the latter direction, at least, since the days of the Pilgrims. Our age is tolerant of creed and dogma, broader in its sympathies, more keenly sensitive to temporal need, and, practically recognizing the brotherhood of the race, wherever a cry of suffering is heard its response is quick and generous. It has abolishe