Account of the Buck Family of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: And of the Bucksville Centennial Celebration Held June 11th, 1892; Including the Proceedings of the Buck Wampun Literary Association of Said Occasion

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William Joseph Buck
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Halaman 20 - Pensylvania, yeoman, being sick in body but of sound and well disposing mind *nd memory, blessed be God for the same and all other his mercies and favors conferred on me, but calling to mind the uncertainty of this mortal life, have thought fit to make this my last will and testament as followeth: I commend my soul into the hands of God who gave it and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereinafter to be named. As for the worldly estate wherewith it has pleased...
Halaman 100 - I thank GOD I was born on the banks of the Hudson ! I think it an invaluable advantage to be born and brought up in the neighborhood of some grand and noble object in nature : a river, a lake, or a mountain.
Halaman 100 - ... from my recollection : for other childless relatives called me their own, in all save name. And now new pursuits engrossed my attention, new friends were gathering around me, new scenes and circumstances were before me. Still sometimes, even amid the din and tumult of a great city, and above the noise and bustle of the ever-moving mass, would I hear, in fancy, the glad song of the summer bird, or the music of the clear mountain stream, or the wild wind rustling among the trees, which I had so...
Halaman 100 - ... it an invaluable advantage to be born and brought up in the neighborhood of some grand and noble object in Nature, — a river, a lake, or a mountain. "We make a friendship with it, — we in a manner ally ourselves to it for life. It remains an object of our pride and affections, a rallying-point, to call us home again after all our wanderings. " The things which we have learned in our childhood...
Halaman 100 - I wander back in imagination to well-known spots ! I would be once more in the green meadows, where I used to gather the daisies and the buttercups, those treasured flowers of childhood ; and nooks, well remembered nooks, rich with pale primroses, would spring up before me. And then the rushing waterfall, the huge gray rocks, and those bright green mossy spots in the deep glen, the beautiful wild rose, the sweet-smelling honeysuckle, and the brilliant red berry of the...
Halaman 100 - God's work," the country, for "man's work," the town. I sped on in the path of life. My parents faded, personally at least. from my recollection; for other childless relatives called me their own, in all save name. And now new pursuits engrossed my attention, new friends were gathering around me, new scenes and circumstances were before me. Still sometimes, even amid the din and tumult of a great city, and above the noise and bustle of the ever-moving mass, would I hear, in fancy, the glad song of...
Halaman 100 - ... of the ever-moving mass, would I hear, in fancy, the glad song of the summer bird, or the music of the clear mountain stream, or the wild wind rustling among the trees, which I had so often listened to in the quiet of my infant years. How often, too, would I wander back in imagination to well-known spots ! I would be once more in the green meadows, where I used to gather the daisies and the buttercups, those treasured flowers of childhood ; and nooks, well remembered nooks, rich with pale primroses,...
Halaman 19 - Ministers to enforce the great unjust and cruel acts of Parliament complained of in the Most Loyal and Dutiful manner by the Congress, And Whereas an Additional Number of Troops with a fleet have been ordered for America to assist the Troops now in Boston, in the Execution of the said acts, We the subscribers agree that we will associate for the Purpose of Learning the Military Exercise, and for Defending our Property, Liberty and Lives against all attempts to deprive us of them.
Halaman 129 - Seize with his right hand the toe of his left boot and whilst so holding it and standing erect jump with his right foot backwards and forwards over his left leg with comparative ease.
Halaman 17 - County and commonwealth aforesaid containing two hundred forty eight acres and an half of land with the usual allowance of six per cent for roads.

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