Exercises in celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Cambridge, held December 28th, 1880 (ed. by R.P. Clapp).Robert P Clapp 1881 |
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A. P. PEABODY acres anniversary army Boston Brattle Street bridge British building called Cambridgeport celebration Charles River Charlestown church citizens city of Cambridge civil Clerk Colony command commemorate Court dear Dudley Dunster Street East Cambridge elected Eliot England erected fathers George Governor Harvard College Harvard Square HENRY HIGGINSON history of Cambridge Holyoke Street honor Hooker hundred and fiftieth hundred and fifty Inman Jacobs JAMES M. W. HALL Joseph Whitney Justin LADIES AND GENTLEMEN land Lechmere Point Lexington lives Longfellow Lowell Lucius marsh Massachusetts Mayor meeting-house memory Newtowne North Avenue occasion occupied OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Orator Paige petty treason poets present printing-press Putnam Richardson SANDERS THEATRE Saunders settlement spot Stephen Daye stood Thomas Dudley Thomas Hooker Thomas Shepard tion to-day town troops Ward Warren Cotton Washington Elm Watertown westerly side William William Claflin Winthrop
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Σελίδα 53 - Offices thereto belonging: And by the side of the Colledge a faire Grammar Schoole, for the training up of young Schollars, and fitting of them for Academicall Learning, that still as they are judged ripe, they may be received into the Colledge of this Schoole...
Σελίδα 31 - And hear the children's voices shout and call, And the brown chestnuts fall. I see the smithy with its fires aglow, I hear the bellows blow, And the shrill hammers on the anvil beat The iron white with heat ! And thus, dear children, have ye made for me This day a jubilee, And to my more than three-score years and ten Brought back my youth again.
Σελίδα 16 - Chestnut Tree, is presented as an expression of grateful regard and veneration by The Children of Cambridge, who with their friends join in the best wishes and congratulations on This Anniversary, February 27, 1879.
Σελίδα 138 - River, the following spring, and to winter there the next year ; that so, by our examples, and by removing the ordnance and munitions thither, all who were able might be drawn thither, and such as shall come to us hereafter, to their advantage, be compelled so to do ; and so, if God would, a fortified town might there grow up, the place fitting reasonably well thereto.
Σελίδα 112 - The empty urn of pride ; There stand the Goblet and the Sun, — What need of more beside? Where lives the memory of the dead, Who made their tomb a toy? Whose ashes press that nameless bed? Go, ask the village boy...
Σελίδα 49 - Shepard, that when the foundation of a colledge was to be laid, Cambridge, rather than any other place, was pitched upon to be the seat of that happy seminary : out of which there proceeded many notable preachers, who were made such very much by their sitting under Mr.
Σελίδα 107 - I ever judged it lawful to join with them in preaching. (5) I saw it my duty to desire the fruition of all God's ordinances which I could not enjoy in old England. (6) My dear wife did much long to see me settled there in peace and so put me on to it.
Σελίδα 54 - 23 d. 6 m. — In ye evening wee vissited Elder Frost, who rec'd us with great kindness and love, esteeming it a favour yt we would come into yr mean habitation ; assured us of his fervent prayers to ye Lord for us ; — A glorious saint makes a mean cottage a stately palace ; were I to make my choyce, I would rather abide with ys saint in his poor cottage, than with any one of ye princes I know of at ys day in ye world.
Σελίδα 56 - The punishment of petit treason in a man is, to be drawn and hanged, and in a woman to be drawn and burned...
Σελίδα 56 - Seven families, who were connected with each other, partly by the ties of relationship, and partly by affection, had here farms, gardens, and magnificent houses, and not far off plantations of fruit. The owners of these were in the habit of daily meeting each other in the afternoons, now at the house of one, and now at another, and making themselves merry with music and the dance, living in prosperity, united and happy, until, alas ! this ruinous war severed them, and left all their houses desolate,...