An Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration, in Peterborough, N.H., Oct. 24, 1839Isaac R. Butts, 1839 - 99 halaman |
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A. C. Blodgett adopted citizens Albert Smith bless Boston Capt Centennial Anniversary Centennial Celebration century character child church clergy Committee David Steele dollars Dunbar early enterprise fathers feelings following sentiment Gentlemen gone Grist Mill hand heard heart hills honor hundred indian puddings inhabitants intellectual interest invitation Ireland Irish James James Wilson Jeremiah Smith John H John Morison John Smith John Steele John Todd Jonathan Smith Jonathan Steele kind labor land liberal lived Londonderry look meet ment mind minister MUSIC native town neighboring never occasion old meeting-house party passed Peter Holt Peterborough Factory pleasure prayer Presbyterian present President prosperity received recollection religious Robbe Samuel schools Scotch settle settlement settlers sons spirit Steele stranger strong Thomas Morison thousand tion town of Peterborough Uncle Mosey village virtue Voted whole William Scott Wilson young
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Halaman 85 - But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip; and he that hath no sword, let him sell his coat and buy one.
Halaman 58 - Grant of a tract of land, had and obtained from the Great and General Court or Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, by Samuel Haywood and others his associates, granting to them the said tract of land on certain conditions of settlement.
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Halaman 50 - A prominent trait in the character of the Scotch-Irish was their ready wit . No subject was kept sacred from it; the thoughtless, the grave, the old and the young alike enjoyed it. Our fathers were serious, thoughtful men, but they lost no occasion which might promise sport. Weddings, huskings, log-rollings and raisings — what a host of queer stories is connected with them! Our ancestors dearly loved fun. There was a grotesque humor, and yet a seriousness, pathos and strangeness about them, which,...
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Halaman 96 - happened to call at the store of a Mr. Melville, where a large number of the people of Packersfield were assembled, and there met the young Peterborough school-master. The school-master accosted him in the familiar salutation of "How do you do, Uncle Mosey ? " The old gentleman, looking away, and manifesting no sign of recognition, replied in a cold, disdainful tone, " Uncle Mosey ! uncle! to be sure! I'm na uncle of yours; I claim na relationship with you, young man.
Halaman 93 - Peterborough express her joy at the success of her absent sons, and pride herself upon them when she numbers such men as these among them. Your sentiment, sir, breathes the prayer that we, the emigrants, may not forget the place of our nativity. I can hardly realize that I am an emigrant. True, sir, a wave of Providence has taken me up, wafted me onward, and cast me upon land not far distant. Although my domicile is in another place, it is here that I seem most at home. It is here that I enjoy all...
Halaman 45 - This party was attacked by the lake fever and the captain returned with a division of the sick to Port Stanwix. Finding it difficult to procure any to go back after the sick persons left behind in the wilderness, he determined to go himself — though strongly dissuaded by • the physician who affirmed tkat he could not return alive. Capt. Scott replied, " I think I shall — but if not, my life is no better than theirs.
Halaman 19 - We all set out." to quote' the words of an actor in the drama, "with such weapons as we could get. going like a flock of wild geese we hardly knew why or whither" and in two hours from the time of getting notice he was on his way to the place of assembly with his son and hired man, they on foot and he on horseback, carrying a bag with pork in one end of it and a large baking pan of bread just taken from the oven, in the other. The company was ready to march...