อ Little Pilgrimages The Romance of Old New England By Author of "The Bomance of Old New England Illustrated A HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF BERNARD BERENSON Copyright, 1903 L. C. Page & Company (Incorporated) All rights reserved Published August, 1903 Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, Mass., U. S. A. A TO THE Reverend Philo Woodruff Sprague AND Harriett Appleton, HIS WIFE, WHO THE ONE AS INSPIRING PREACHER, THE OTHER AS SYMPATHETIC COMRADEHAVE HELPED ME UNSPEAKABLY, THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED Spires whose silent fingers point to Heaven. Wordsworth. Respect for sacred things and sacred places is inseparable from good breeding. — Washington Irving. If keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. Addison. Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached. - John Armstrong. - Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. Lowell. |