Visit to Grand-papa: Or, A Week at Newport |
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Page 130 - Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates ; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 208 - Skirmishing continued between the advanced parties until near ten o'clock, when the enemy's two ships of war and some small armed vessels, having gained our right flank and began a fire, the enemy bent their whole force that way, and endeavored to turn our right, under cover of the ship's fire, and to take the advanced redoubt on the right. They were...
Page 149 - twas not long 'fore it fell out, That William Dudingston, so stout, Commander of the Gaspee tender, Which he has reason to remember, Because, as people do assert, He almost had his just desert; Here, on the tenth day of last June, Betwixt the hours of twelve and one, Did chase the sloop, called the Hannah, Of whom, one Lindsay, was commander.
Page 210 - July 10th, 1777, from Warwick Neck to Rhode-Island, and though they had a passage of ten miles by water, eluded the watchfulness of the ships of war, and guard-boats which surrounded the island. They conducted...
Page 204 - Tonnant of eighty guns, with only her mainmast standing, and attacked her with spirit, but night put an end to the engagement. Six sail of the French squadron came up in the night, which saved the disabled ships from any further attack.
Page 44 - By this Charter the Corporation consists of two distinct branches, with separate and respective powers. — The Trustees are thirtysix in number of whom twenty-two must be Baptists, five of the denomination of Friends, five Episcopalians and four Congregationalists. The same proportions of the different denominations is to endure perpetually.
Page 149 - ... about half after ten, Some Narragansett Indian-men, Being sixty-four, if I remember, Soon made this stout coxcomb surrender — And what was best of all their tricks...
Page 210 - ... the camp. At the same time, the heavy baggage and stores were fallin' back, and carried over the bay. At dark, the tents were struck, the light baggage and the troops passed down, and by twelve o'clock, the whole army had crossed. We slipped away as quietly as a mouse through a hole in the trap. Lafayette arrived from Boston just as the last part of the army was preparin
Page 209 - Livingston did themselves great honor in the transactions of the day. But it is not in my power to do justice to Col. Laurens who acted both the general and partisan. His command of regular troops was small, but he did every thing possible to be done by their numbers.
Page 54 - Morse,' as my grandfather said this morning, there is the State House, the form, situation and architecture of which, give it a pleasing appearance. It stands sufficiently elevated, and a long wharf and paved parade lead up to it from the harbor — so far from the good doctor," said Frank, laughing, "and the rest I must manage for myself.