Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volume 37National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution., 1910 - Genealogy |
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... To - day is our own , and a fig for to - morrow- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever . No. 1 -FRANKLIN P. ADAMS , New York Evening Mail ADDRESS OF MRS . MATTHEW T. SCOTT , PRESI- DENT American Monthly Magazine.
... To - day is our own , and a fig for to - morrow- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever . No. 1 -FRANKLIN P. ADAMS , New York Evening Mail ADDRESS OF MRS . MATTHEW T. SCOTT , PRESI- DENT American Monthly Magazine.
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ADDRESS OF MRS . MATTHEW T. SCOTT , PRESI- DENT GENERAL , TO THE NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT , JUNE 1 , 1910 Ladies of the National Board of Management : Temporarily we have arrived at the parting of the ways . The coming six- teen ...
ADDRESS OF MRS . MATTHEW T. SCOTT , PRESI- DENT GENERAL , TO THE NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT , JUNE 1 , 1910 Ladies of the National Board of Management : Temporarily we have arrived at the parting of the ways . The coming six- teen ...
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... American Revolution , has been formally de- posited in the Museum of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Washington , D. C. , under letter of authority from Mrs. Julia G. ( Matthew T. ) Scott , STORY OF A TREASURE CASKET . 23.
... American Revolution , has been formally de- posited in the Museum of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Washington , D. C. , under letter of authority from Mrs. Julia G. ( Matthew T. ) Scott , STORY OF A TREASURE CASKET . 23.
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from Mrs. Julia G. ( Matthew T. ) Scott , President General , Daughters of the American Revolution . The casket is 19 inches long with semi - circular ends , 11 inches wide and 7 inches deep , is of Norway spruce 1/8 inch thick , the ...
from Mrs. Julia G. ( Matthew T. ) Scott , President General , Daughters of the American Revolution . The casket is 19 inches long with semi - circular ends , 11 inches wide and 7 inches deep , is of Norway spruce 1/8 inch thick , the ...
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... Scott was elected regent . Twenty - three members have been added to the roll during the year , making a roster of fifty - six , with thirty - seven appli- cants . Among our members are numbered descendants of the honored signers of the ...
... Scott was elected regent . Twenty - three members have been added to the roll during the year , making a roster of fifty - six , with thirty - seven appli- cants . Among our members are numbered descendants of the honored signers of the ...
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Page 189 - DEAR MADAM: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
Page 165 - Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
Page 298 - They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall ; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small; They pinched her feet, they singed her hair, They screwed it up with pins; — Oh, never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins.
Page 106 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page 453 - to promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge," thus developing an enlightened public opinion and affording to young and old such advantages as shall develop in them the largest capacity for performing the duties of American citizens...
Page 110 - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Page 305 - And the nuns' sweet hymn was heard the while, Sung low in the dim, mysterious aisle. "Take thy banner! May it wave Proudly o'er the good and brave; When the battle's distant wail Breaks the sabbath of our vale, When the clarion's...
Page 106 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 90 - I pledge allegiance to my flag, and to the Republic for which it stands ; one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Page 215 - Let our object be, OUR COUNTRY, OUR WHOLE COUNTRY, AND NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of Wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever ! THE COMPLETION OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT.