Celebration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Bridgewater, Massachusetts: At West Bridgewater, June 3, 1856 : Including the Address by Hon. Emory Washburn, of Worcester : Poem by James Reed ... and Other Exercises of the Occasion : with an AppendixJ. Wilson and Son, 1856 - 167 Seiten |
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AARON HOBART acres ancestors ancient Bridgewater ancient town Artemas Hale AUSTIN PACKARD bless Boston bush celebration Centennial Anniversary Centennial Day century character church Committee common Commonwealth Court descendants duty Duxbury early East Edson EMORY WASHBURN England EZEKIEL WHITMAN fathers feelings four Hayward heart hollow ware honor hope hundred Incorporation Indian corn inhabitants James John JOSEPH KINGMAN Judge June Keith kinds m'd labors land Lemuel Shaw liberty lives look manufactories Massachusetts memory minister Mitchell mother Nahum Mitchell nation North Bridgewater o'er occasion Old Bridgewater old colony Parish passed PAUL COUCH Peregrine White Perkins Plymouth Plymouth colony Plymouth County political prepared for market present President prosperity Reed religious Samuel Second Centennial sentiment settlers Shaw soil sons spirit spot territory tion to-day tons town of Bridgewater venerable virtues Washburn West Bridgewater Whitman William WILLIAM BAYLIES
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 14 - Is Ephraim my dear son ? is he a pleasant child ? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still : therefore my bowels are troubled for him ; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
Seite 105 - ... bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Seite 109 - While scourged by famine from the smiling land. The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms, a garden and a grave.
Seite 107 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Seite 100 - Muse The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Seite 107 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Seite 105 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and GOD has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down...
Seite 82 - My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever. Written on thy works I read The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo...
Seite 104 - ... from the north and the south, the east and the west, to press into its membership.
Seite 36 - Monday they sounded the harbor and found it fit for shipping, and marched into the land and found divers cornfields and little running brooks, a place (as they supposed) fit for situation. At least it was the best they could find, and the season and their present necessity made them glad to accept of it.