Publications, Volume 3The Society, 1908 - Cambridge (Mass.) |
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Abiel Holmes Adams America ANDREW MCFARLAND DAVIS Annual ARCHIBALD MURRAY Boston Brattle building Bulfinch called Cambridge Historical Society Cambridge Latin School Charles Church Class-day Committee Council daughter death died Dunster EDWARD Eliot Elizabeth England Everett father Francis Francis Dana FRANK GAYLORD Fresh Pond friends gave graduated Gray Harvard College HENRY HERBERT EDES HOLLIS RUSSELL BAILEY Holmes James John Jose Glover knew learned letter lived London Longfellow Lowell married Massachusetts Hall meeting minister Nathaniel Appleton never Norton Owfield paper parish Parliament pastor persons poems poet preacher preaching present President printed prize Professor published remember Richard Harris RICHARD HENRY DANA Roger Roger Glover Samuel Sarah School sermons Sophocles Stephen Day Storer Street teacher things Thomas Shepard tion took town vote Walker wife WILLIAM COOLIDGE WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER Winthrop
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Page 53 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and to perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 129 - The secretaries shall keep the records and conduct the correspondence of the Society and of the Executive Council and shall perform such other duties as the council may assign to them.
Page 129 - Committee on Admissions. The Committee on Admissions shall consist of twenty-one members, who shall be chosen by ballot at the annual meeting, and shall hold office until their successors shall be elected. At the annual meeting in January, 1889, seven members of the Committee shall be elected to serve three years, seven two years, and seven one year. At each subsequent annual meeting seven members shall be chosen to serve three years. No...
Page 70 - That it is the duty of this House to provide, as far as may be, an immediate and effectual redress of the abuses complained of in the petitions presented to this House, from the different Counties, Cities and Towns in this Kingdom.
Page 70 - That it is competent to this House, to examine into, and to correct abuses in, the expenditure of the civil list revenues, as well as in every other branch of the public revenue, whenever it shall appear expedient to the wisdom of this House so to do : 3.
Page 58 - Early in January, in 1778, he was chairman of the committee to visit the army at Valley Forge, and remained there during five months of that distressful season. While there, he was engaged with Washington in concerting the plan subsequently submitted by Congress to the commander-inchief, on June 4, 1778, " to be proceeded in, with the advice and assistance of Mr. Reed and Mr. Dana, or either of them.
Page 17 - We passed by the printing office, but there was nobody in it ; the paper sash however being broken, we looked in ; and saw two presses with six or eight cases of type. There is not much work done there.
Page 53 - Towards a schoale or colledge whereof 200 / To bee paid the next yeare & 200 ,£ When the worke is finished & the next court To appoint wheare & wt building 15 November 1637 the colledg is ordered To bee at Newetowne...
Page 58 - ... William Pulteney and Governor Johnstone, and through them and their connections Mr. Dana had especial opportunities of ascertaining the state of English feeling, and the probable measures of the government. He became quite intimate with Dr. Price, and contributed materials for the work which the learned doctor published in defence of the colonies. He remained in England two years, and arrived in Boston in April, 1776, bringing with him a decided opinion that all hope of an adjustment with England...
Page 57 - Nov. 20, 1767, and May 8, 1770. His death in 1772, three years before the outbreak, is spoken of in the letters of the patriots of that day, as a great loss to their cause ; and President Adams, in later days, speaks of him as one who, had he not been cut off by death, would have furnished one of the immortal names of the revolution.