History of the Town of Plymouth, Connecticut: With an Account of the Centennial Celebration May 14 and 15, 1895 : Also a Sketch of Plymouth, Ohio, Settled by Local Families

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Journal Publishing Company, 1895 - 442 halaman
 

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Halaman 307 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Halaman 86 - Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give...
Halaman 347 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Halaman 285 - The sire turns o'er wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God!
Halaman 7 - At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hartford in said State, on the first Wednesday of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. The Joint Committee, appointed to take into consideration such part of the Message of the Governor as relates to the Constitution and Judiciary of the United States...
Halaman 111 - Additional force was obtained from the military commandant at Macon for completing the enclosure and erecting the head-boards. It seems that the dead had been buried by Union prisoners, paroled from the stockade and hospital for that purpose. Successive trenches, capable of containing from 100 to 150 bodies each, thickly set with little posts or boards, with numbers in regular order carved upon them, told to the astonished and tear-dimmed eve the sad story of buried treasures.
Halaman 126 - ... exercises for a day was usually as follows. From 9 o'clock, AM to 15 minutes past 9, the instructor came to the door with a large ferule, and struck several times on the door post as a signal for opening the school. Such pupils as were present came in, and either took their seats or crowded around the fire. Those of the first class who were present read in the Testament. The lesson consisted of from two to four chapters, according to their length. The time usually allotted to this exercise was...
Halaman 126 - None of them were ever defined for him ; nor was he requested or encouraged to seek for definitions for himself. In this manner, one word suggested, by association, the next ; the second, the third ; and so on. No faculty was called into exercise but the memory. If a word was mis-spelled, the next pupil who could spell it was allowed to take his place, or ' go above him,
Halaman 85 - Christ to have full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and to inherit Eternal life: and my body I commit to...
Halaman 123 - ... into the schoolroom. The floor and ceiling were level, and the walls were plastered. The room was warmed by a large and deep fire place. So large was it, and so efficacious in warming the room otherwise, that I have seen about oneeighth of a cord of good wood burning in it at a time. In severe weather, it was estimated that the amount usually consumed was not far from a cord a week. . . . The school was not infrequently broken up for a day or two for want of wood. The instructor or pupils were...

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