Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volume 37National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution., 1910 - Genealogy |
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... served as a diplomatic officer of the United States in several nations , I have returned each time prouder than ever before that I was an American citizen - but more anxious than ever before that the United States should become the ...
... served as a diplomatic officer of the United States in several nations , I have returned each time prouder than ever before that I was an American citizen - but more anxious than ever before that the United States should become the ...
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... served with undaunted courage amid deprivations such as only great souls can endure without murmur . France sent us Lafayette , Rochambeau and others ; Ger- many , our great De Kalb and von Steuben ; Poland , the noble Kosciuszko and ...
... served with undaunted courage amid deprivations such as only great souls can endure without murmur . France sent us Lafayette , Rochambeau and others ; Ger- many , our great De Kalb and von Steuben ; Poland , the noble Kosciuszko and ...
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... served as an officer in the army of Bernhard , Grand Duke of Sax Weimer , who succeeded to command upon the death of Gustavus Adolphus , King of Sweden , on the field of battle . Bernhard won a signal victory over the imperial forces at ...
... served as an officer in the army of Bernhard , Grand Duke of Sax Weimer , who succeeded to command upon the death of Gustavus Adolphus , King of Sweden , on the field of battle . Bernhard won a signal victory over the imperial forces at ...
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... served a number of terms of enlistment . He was at the Battle of Long Island , August 27 , 1776 ; was taken prisoner at Fort Washington , November 15 , 1776 ; was re- leased on parole , February , 1777 , and afterwards exchanged . He ...
... served a number of terms of enlistment . He was at the Battle of Long Island , August 27 , 1776 ; was taken prisoner at Fort Washington , November 15 , 1776 ; was re- leased on parole , February , 1777 , and afterwards exchanged . He ...
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... served 23 days at the time of the Lex- ington Alarm , in Captain Thomas White's company for Brook- line , Massachusetts , and his name appears on the bronze tablet erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution chapter of that city ...
... served 23 days at the time of the Lex- ington Alarm , in Captain Thomas White's company for Brook- line , Massachusetts , and his name appears on the bronze tablet erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution chapter of that city ...
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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.