An Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration, in Peterborough, N.H., Oct. 24, 1839Isaac R. Butts, 1839 - 99 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 20 - We the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise, that we will, to the utmost of our Power, at the Risque of our Lives and Fortunes, with ARMS oppose the Hostile Proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United American COLONIES.
Σελίδα 85 - But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip; and he that hath no sword, let him sell his coat and buy one.
Σελίδα 58 - Grant of a tract of land, had and obtained from the Great and General Court or Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, by Samuel Haywood and others his associates, granting to them the said tract of land on certain conditions of settlement.
Σελίδα 41 - Congress, he was appointed United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, and...
Σελίδα 50 - A prominent trait in the character of the Scotch-Irish was their ready wit . No subject was kept sacred from it; the thoughtless, the grave, the old and the young alike enjoyed it. Our fathers were serious, thoughtful men, but they lost no occasion which might promise sport. Weddings, huskings, log-rollings and raisings — what a host of queer stories is connected with them! Our ancestors dearly loved fun. There was a grotesque humor, and yet a seriousness, pathos and strangeness about them, which,...
Σελίδα 20 - Continental CONGRESS, and to show our Determination in joining our American Brethren, in defending the Lives, Liberties and Properties of the Inhabitants of the UNITED COLONIES...
Σελίδα 96 - happened to call at the store of a Mr. Melville, where a large number of the people of Packersfield were assembled, and there met the young Peterborough school-master. The school-master accosted him in the familiar salutation of "How do you do, Uncle Mosey ? " The old gentleman, looking away, and manifesting no sign of recognition, replied in a cold, disdainful tone, " Uncle Mosey ! uncle! to be sure! I'm na uncle of yours; I claim na relationship with you, young man.
Σελίδα 93 - Peterborough express her joy at the success of her absent sons, and pride herself upon them when she numbers such men as these among them. Your sentiment, sir, breathes the prayer that we, the emigrants, may not forget the place of our nativity. I can hardly realize that I am an emigrant. True, sir, a wave of Providence has taken me up, wafted me onward, and cast me upon land not far distant. Although my domicile is in another place, it is here that I seem most at home. It is here that I enjoy all...
Σελίδα 45 - This party was attacked by the lake fever and the captain returned with a division of the sick to Port Stanwix. Finding it difficult to procure any to go back after the sick persons left behind in the wilderness, he determined to go himself — though strongly dissuaded by • the physician who affirmed tkat he could not return alive. Capt. Scott replied, " I think I shall — but if not, my life is no better than theirs.
Σελίδα 19 - We all set out." to quote' the words of an actor in the drama, "with such weapons as we could get. going like a flock of wild geese we hardly knew why or whither" and in two hours from the time of getting notice he was on his way to the place of assembly with his son and hired man, they on foot and he on horseback, carrying a bag with pork in one end of it and a large baking pan of bread just taken from the oven, in the other. The company was ready to march...