History of Newburyport: From the Earliest Settlement of the Country to the Present Time : with a Biographical AppendixPress of Damrell and Moore, 1854 - 414 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 72 - Touching the adventures and perils which we the assurers are contented to bear and do take upon us in this voyage: they are of the seas, men of war, fire, enemies, pirates, rovers, thieves, jettisons, letters of mart and countermart, surprisals, takings at sea, arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever...
Σελίδα 275 - Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, And the harbor bar be moaning. Three corpses lay out on the shining sands In the morning gleam as the tide went down, And the women are weeping and wringing their hands For those who will never come home to the town; For men must work, and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep; And good-by to the bar and its moaning. The Sands of OMARY, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands...
Σελίδα 341 - Waltham, was probably the first one in the world that combined all the operations necessary for converting the raw cotton into finished cloth. Such, however, is the fact, as far as we are informed on the subject. The mills in this country — Slater's, for example, in Rhode Island...
Σελίδα 336 - ... factory; putting at the head of them matrons of tried character, and allowing no boarders to be received except the female operatives of the mill; by stringent regulations for the government of these houses; by all these precautions they gained the confidence of the rural population, who were now no longer afraid to trust their daughters in a manufacturing town.
Σελίδα 180 - Tis a breach of the twentieth EMBARGO. Our Farmers so gay, How they gallop'd away, 'Twas money that made the old mare go; But now she won't stir, For the whip or the spur, 'Till they take off her clog, the EMBARGO. If you ask for a debt, The man turns in a pet, 'I pay sir? I'll not let a hair go; 'If your officer comes, 'I shall put up...
Σελίδα 37 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Σελίδα 342 - England — brought, of course, to greater perfection in detail, and attaining a much higher rate of speed, but still substantially the same. Associating with themselves some of the most intelligent merchants of Boston, they procured, in February, 1813, a charter, under the name of the Boston Manufacturing Company, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars.
Σελίδα 180 - Our ships all in motion once whitened the ocean, They sailed and returned with a cargo; Now doomed to decay, they have fallen a prey To Jefferson, worms, and embargo.
Σελίδα 275 - THREE fishers went sailing away to the West, Away to the West as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town; For men must work, and women must weep, And there's little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbor bar be moaning.
Σελίδα 104 - ... distraction. When Arnold deserted his post, a corporal, by name James Lurvey, was the cockswain of his barge. After their arrival on board the Vulture, and Arnold had held an interview with the officers in the cabin, he came on deck and said to his bargemen, " My lads, I have quitted the rebel army, and joined the standard of his Britannic Majesty, if you will join me, I will make sergeants and corporals of you all, and for you James, I will do something more." Indignant at the offer, Lurvey...