A History of the Town of Acushnet, Bristol County, State of Massachusetts

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The author, 1907 - 398 עמודים
 

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עמוד 53 - The wide-spreading pond, and the mill that stood by it, The bridge and the rock where the cataract fell, The cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh it, And e'en the rude bucket that hung in the well — The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well.
עמוד 51 - Through days of sorrow and of mirth. Through days of death and days of birth. Through every swift vicissitude Of changeful time, unchanged it has stood, And as if, like God, it all things saw. It calmly repeats those words of awe, "Forever — never ! Never — forever...
עמוד 117 - After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
עמוד 221 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas ; the spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ; They left unstained what there they found Freedom to worship God.
עמוד 84 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
עמוד 21 - LIKE the shadows in the stream, Like the evanescent gleam Of the twilight's failing blaze, Like the fleeting years and days, Like all things that soon decay, Pass the Indian tribes away.
עמוד 17 - Dartmouth did they burn with fire, and barbarously murdered both men and women; stripping the slain whether men or women and leaving them in the open field.
עמוד 258 - Lastly, (and which was not the least,) a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancing...
עמוד 187 - Company marched on alarm at Falmouth Feb. 4 April 2 and May 16, 1779; roll sworn to in Barnstable Co.; also, private on a pay abstract of Col.

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