The History and Present State of the Town of NewburyportE.W. Allen, 1826 - 120 Seiten |
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The History and Present State of the Town of Newburyport (Classic Reprint) Caleb Cushing Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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Seite 117 - Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too highminded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation...
Seite 117 - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here1 and his greater happiness hereafter — with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
Seite 28 - At the commencement of the fire, it was a bright moon light night, and the evening was cool and pleasant. But the moon gradually became obscured and at length disappeared in the thick cloud of smoke which shrouded the atmosphere. The glare of light throughout the town was intense, and the heat that of a sultry summer noon. The streets were thronged with those whose dwellings were consumed, conveying the remains of their property to places of safety. The incessant crash of falling buildings, the roaring...
Seite 111 - During that calamitous period, our seamen were thrown out of employment ; our traders lost their customers ; the farmers, who had looked to us for foreign commodities, and of whom we had purchased lumber, and provisions, left our market, — and our merchants were compelled to sit down idly and see their ships rotting in the docks.
Seite 41 - Society, is for the recovery of persons who meet with such accidents as produce in them the appearance of death, and for promoting the cause of humanity by pursuing such means from time to time, as shall have for their object the preservation of human life, and the alleviation of its miseries.
Seite 45 - I am thereupon of opinion that the said petitioners and others that joyne with them ought to be peaceably allowed in their lawful proceedings therein for their good establishment: and ought not to be taxed or imposed upon for the support and maintenance of any other public worship in the said town. Of which I desire all persons concerned to take notice accordingly. Given under my hand, J. DUDLEY.
Seite 8 - ... committee, appointed for that purpose, was read and ordered to be sent to the committee of correspondence in Boston : — Gentlemen: It is with astonishment that we reflect on the unremitted efforts of the British ministry and parliament to fasten ruin and infamy upon these colonies. They not only claim a right to control and tax us at their pleasure, but are practising every species of fraud as well as violence their deluded minds can suppose feasible to support and establish this absurd and...
Seite 14 - ... property, and on their means of subsistence, the great burden of the war. Any one, who has had occasion to be acquainted with the records of the New England towns, knows well how to estimate those merits and those sufferings. Nobler records of patriotism exist nowhere. Nowhere can there be found higher proofs of a spirit that was ready to hazard all, to pledge all, to sacrifice all, in the cause of the country. Instances...
Seite 101 - Cambridge, in 1769. He entered upon the study of the law under the late Judge Bradbury, in Falmouth, now Portland, and, while there, kept the grammar school in that town. He practised law there a few years ; but the conflagration of the town by the British obliged him to withdraw to his father's house, where he met Judge Trowbridge, as stated in the Address. He, in about a year from this time, opened his office in Newburyport. He has been honored with degrees of doctor of laws, from the University...
Seite 33 - ... leading by Benjamin Moody's to a place called the West Indies, until it intersects a straight line drawn from the south-westwardly side of the highway, against Cottle's Lane, as aforesaid, to a rock in the great pasture, near the dividing line between the third and fifth parishes there, and so as the straight line goes, until it comes to the dividing line aforesaid, from thence as the said dividing line runs, by the said fifth parish down to Merrimac river, and thence along said river to the...