1776. 1876. Oration Delivered at Essex, Mass., July 4th, 1876E.S. Burnham, 1876 - 13 страници |
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... old town have closed their eyes in the long sleep since then , and the mourners have gone about the streets . The ... city of the dead . Rev. Dr. Crowell was the chaplain , a name equally honored with those of Wise , Cleveland and Bacon ...
... old town have closed their eyes in the long sleep since then , and the mourners have gone about the streets . The ... city of the dead . Rev. Dr. Crowell was the chaplain , a name equally honored with those of Wise , Cleveland and Bacon ...
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... old town were sown and harvested in the cause of liberty . Our fathers had no comforts to lose when they shut them- selves out from England . The hum of the spinning wheel in every house declared our mothers ' patriotism . " An Empire ...
... old town were sown and harvested in the cause of liberty . Our fathers had no comforts to lose when they shut them- selves out from England . The hum of the spinning wheel in every house declared our mothers ' patriotism . " An Empire ...
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David Otis Mears. or Cambridge or Danvers or any other mere town which was ... village and hamlet in the land . There are , however , peculiar reasons why we may ... old Essex County . Bancroft tells us that upon the British retreat from ...
David Otis Mears. or Cambridge or Danvers or any other mere town which was ... village and hamlet in the land . There are , however , peculiar reasons why we may ... old Essex County . Bancroft tells us that upon the British retreat from ...
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... old town has writ- ten many a page of purest history . Men who had cleared these fields and trod these highways and sailed on this river , stood with Warren at Bunker Hill until he fell : the echoes of their muskets rolled off from ...
... old town has writ- ten many a page of purest history . Men who had cleared these fields and trod these highways and sailed on this river , stood with Warren at Bunker Hill until he fell : the echoes of their muskets rolled off from ...
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... towns of New England , and observe how prominent a position was always chosen for its site , - usually upon some hill . The central attraction of many a provincial history has been the old meeting house . We may think of it upon some ...
... towns of New England , and observe how prominent a position was always chosen for its site , - usually upon some hill . The central attraction of many a provincial history has been the old meeting house . We may think of it upon some ...
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American Liberty annually Bancroft banner battle bell birth place blood Britain British troops Bunker Hill CAMBRIDGE cause of liberty Choate Colonies Concord cornet Danvers death declared deeds defence DELIVERED AT Essex E. S. Burnham England equal honor Essex County exalt faintest idea Faithful Faneuil Hall fathers forgot four million slaves free school freedom Gage granite Grant held its meeting heralded Historic fields House of Burgesses hundred years ago iniquity July 4th land late conflict Lexington looked loved Massachusetts Mears Meeting House merchants Middlesex mile of railroad Mississippi Mount musket National Independence old Chebacco old town ORATION Otis parish pastor Patriotism means pines population prayer principles proclamation Puritan idea righteousness sadness Salisbury Samuel Adams School House second century Selectmen slavery soil South Carolina Southern army tell threshold Town House Town Meeting trees trip from Boston truth and justice unawed Valley Forge Virginian House worship
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Страница 13 - Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Страница 12 - Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road. Yea! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, Are mingled together in sunshine and rain; And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge, Still follow each other, like surge upon surge.
Страница 8 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Страница 8 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Страница 12 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud: — Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? WILLIAM KNOX.
Страница 10 - Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor the nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan or atheistical dogmas.
Страница 5 - Ipswich, in point of numbers 4 the second town in the Province, advised "that the Colonies in general and the inhabitants of their Province in particular, should stand firm as one man, to support and maintain all their just rights and privileges.
Страница 7 - In every hand was the Bible ; every home was a house of prayer ; in every village all had been taught, many had comprehended, a methodical theory of the divine purpose in creation, and of the destiny of man.
Страница 8 - ... Nothing would be easier than to follow in the tr.ain of so many writers, and to demonstrate by logic, by history, and by the nature of the case, that a republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one, — the despotism of a few succeeded by universal anarchy, and anarchy by despotism, with no change but from bad to worse.