The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 47

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New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1893
Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters.
 

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Halaman 143 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Halaman 219 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Halaman 15 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Halaman 345 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Halaman 188 - First and principally I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God, and my body to the earth to be decently buried...
Halaman 383 - Sons of the Revolution has been instituted to perpetuate the memory of the men who, in the military, naval, and civil service of the Colonies and of the Continental Congress, by their acts or counsel, achieved the Independence of the country...
Halaman 382 - Cincinnati, the Sons of the Revolution, and the Sons of the American Revolution; Dr.
Halaman 209 - as an action concerning God, and the advancement of religion, the present ease, future honor and safety at the Kingdome, the strength of our Navy, the visible hope of a great and rich trade, and many secrett blessings not yet discovered...
Halaman 15 - Where the fever demon strews Poison with the falling dews, Where the sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air, — Gone, gone, — sold and gone, To the rice-swamps dank and lone, From Virginia's hills and waters, — Woe is me, my stolen daughters...
Halaman 143 - On the morning of his execution," continued the officer, "my station was near the fatal spot, and I requested the Provost Marshal to permit the prisoner to sit in my marquee, while he was making the necessary preparations. Captain Hale entered; he was calm, and bore himself with gentle dignity, in the consciousness of rectitude and high intentions. He asked for writing materials, which I furnished him; he wrote two letters, one to his mother and one to a brother...

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