The Granite Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, History and State Progress, Volume 10Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock J.N. McClintock, 1887 - Local history Contains articles on the White Mountains and a map. |
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... March in the fifteenth year of our reign , Annoque Domini 1775 . J WENTWORTH . HILLSBOROUGH s.s. April 5-1775 . Pursuant to this precept to me direct- ed I have made known to the within named Stephen Peabody as I am herein commanded by ...
... March in the fifteenth year of our reign , Annoque Domini 1775 . J WENTWORTH . HILLSBOROUGH s.s. April 5-1775 . Pursuant to this precept to me direct- ed I have made known to the within named Stephen Peabody as I am herein commanded by ...
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... March 18 , 1690 , Hope Hood had twenty - five Indians under him , and was allied to a party of twenty - seven French under Sieur Hertel . Thirty settlers were killed and fifty - four captured . Hope Hood was killed ( says Mather ) in ...
... March 18 , 1690 , Hope Hood had twenty - five Indians under him , and was allied to a party of twenty - seven French under Sieur Hertel . Thirty settlers were killed and fifty - four captured . Hope Hood was killed ( says Mather ) in ...
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... march of a hundred and fifty miles , blazing his way by cutting notches in the trees - alert , and daring to thus brave the Indian and the wild beasts in their forest home . He has passed . Will he return in safety , or fall a vic- tim ...
... march of a hundred and fifty miles , blazing his way by cutting notches in the trees - alert , and daring to thus brave the Indian and the wild beasts in their forest home . He has passed . Will he return in safety , or fall a vic- tim ...
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... March , it became my good fortune to listen to the trial of a cause in the Morgan county court in which Mr. Lincoln took part as couns I. He was associated with Judge Brown of Springfield for the defence . A Mr. Smith and Murray ...
... March , it became my good fortune to listen to the trial of a cause in the Morgan county court in which Mr. Lincoln took part as couns I. He was associated with Judge Brown of Springfield for the defence . A Mr. Smith and Murray ...
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... march , to fight , to suffer , to conquer or to be conquered , to sacrifice himself for them without reserve , with his fame , his fortune , his liberty , his blood , and his life . " Great men are like mountains , which grow as they ...
... march , to fight , to suffer , to conquer or to be conquered , to sacrifice himself for them without reserve , with his fame , his fortune , his liberty , his blood , and his life . " Great men are like mountains , which grow as they ...
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Page 392 - Palissy! within thy breast Burned the hot fever of unrest; Thine was the prophet's vision, thine The exultation, the divine Insanity of noble minds, That never falters nor abates, But labors and endures and waits, Till all that it foresees it finds, Or what it cannot find creates!
Page 35 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 137 - Over my heart, in the days that are flown, No love like mother-love ever has shone; No other worship abides and endures,— Faithful, unselfish, and patient, like yours: None like a mother can charm away pain From the sick soul and the world-weary brain.
Page 38 - The Old World and the New, from sea to sea, Utter one voice of sympathy and shame! Sore heart, so stopped when it at last beat high, Sad life, cut short just as its triumph came.
Page 35 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.
Page 38 - Who trusts the strength will with the burden grow, That God makes instruments to work his will, If but that will we can arrive to know, Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill. So he went forth to...
Page 37 - Statesman, yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approved, And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.
Page 38 - My shallow judgment I had learned to rue, Noting how to occasion's height he rose, How his quaint wit made home-truth seem more true, How, iron-like, his temper grew by blows. How humble, yet how hopeful he could be: How in good fortune and in ill the same : Nor bitter in success, nor boastful he, Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame.
Page 41 - He did, sir, and repeated it." After a moment's pause, and looking up, the President said, " If Stanton said I was add fool, then I must be one, for he is nearly always right, and generally says what he means. I will step over and see him.
Page 39 - Made him our pattern to live and to die ! Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us, Burns, Shelley, were with us, — they watch from their graves! He alone breaks from the van and the freemen, He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves ! We shall march prospering, — not thro...