The Cape Cod Centennial Celebration at Barnstable, Sept. 3, 1839, of the Incorporation of that Town, Sept. 3, 1639: Giving a Full Detail of the Preliminary Proceedings of the Committees and the Speeches and Toasts at the Dinner, Correctly Reported and RevS.B. Phinney, 1840 - 92 páginas |
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... spot , west of the Court House , of 130 feet square , containing tables with single seats , arranged in eight sections in a circular form , so that all the occupants were seated fronting the platform . The pillars were wreathed with ...
... spot , west of the Court House , of 130 feet square , containing tables with single seats , arranged in eight sections in a circular form , so that all the occupants were seated fronting the platform . The pillars were wreathed with ...
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... spot where New England begun to be , we come in our prosperity to remember their trials , and to learn of our pilgrim fathers a deep and lasting lesson of virtue , enterprise , patience , zeal and faith ! " This toast was replied to by ...
... spot where New England begun to be , we come in our prosperity to remember their trials , and to learn of our pilgrim fathers a deep and lasting lesson of virtue , enterprise , patience , zeal and faith ! " This toast was replied to by ...
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... spot , at the third Centennial Celebration . I meant to have them in readiness to offer to you , Sir , and through you to my fellow - citizens of Barnstable , at this time ; but I have been disappointed by circum- stances beyond my ...
... spot , at the third Centennial Celebration . I meant to have them in readiness to offer to you , Sir , and through you to my fellow - citizens of Barnstable , at this time ; but I have been disappointed by circum- stances beyond my ...
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... spot as it appeared to Captain Miles Standish and his Companions , on the 15th or 16th of November 1620 ? Oh , no , Sir . Let us go up for a moment , in imagination , to yonder hill , which overlooks the village and the bay , and ...
... spot as it appeared to Captain Miles Standish and his Companions , on the 15th or 16th of November 1620 ? Oh , no , Sir . Let us go up for a moment , in imagination , to yonder hill , which overlooks the village and the bay , and ...
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... spot began to be cast abroad , one of the first handfulls fell on your genial soil ; -and from that time to this , - through two centuries of humble beginnings and rich fruits 6 48 this; that, law or no law, that ...
... spot began to be cast abroad , one of the first handfulls fell on your genial soil ; -and from that time to this , - through two centuries of humble beginnings and rich fruits 6 48 this; that, law or no law, that ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ancestors Barnsta Barnstable County Barnstable Patriot Boston called Cape Cod Cape towns celebration century Chief Justice church citizens of Barnstable Committee of Arrangements Commonwealth Court House Daniel Davis David Crocker descendants Dimmock early eloquent England enterprise fathers feel festivities friends Governor Hallet Harrison Gray Otis heart HENRY CROCKER honor hundred incorporation Indian interest invitation James Otis John Josiah Judge ladies land liberty lived Lothrop Massachusetts Meeting House Mellen memory ment never occasion Old Colony Orator parish passed Pavilion pilgrim Pilgrim Fathers pious pleasure Plymouth Colony present President prosperity Provincetown recollections respect S. B. PHINNEY sands scene Scituate seat second Centennial Anniversary sentiment settlement settlers shore soil sons spirit spot Thacher Thomas Thomas Gray Thomas Hinckley tion town of Barnstable venerable virtues Walley whole William Sturgis Writs of Assistance Yarmouth Zeno Scudder
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Página 23 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Página 23 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Página 30 - Every man of an immense, crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take up arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child INDEPENDENCE was born. In fifteen years, ie in 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free.
Página 24 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea! And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free! The ocean-eagle soared, From his nest by the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared — This was their welcome home! There were men with hoary hair, Amidst that pilgrim band, Why had they come to wither there Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high,...
Página 44 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Página 24 - There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas; the spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They left unstained what there they found Freedom to worship God.
Página 65 - The world was sad ; the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled...
Página 23 - Not with the roll of stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear, — They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their' hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea, And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang With the anthem of the free.
Página 45 - Cape, running out into the ocean a hundred miles, as if on purpose to receive and encircle the precious vessel. As I now see her, freighted with the destinies of a continent, barely escaped from the perils of the deep, approaching the shore precisely where the broad sweep of this most remarkable headland presents almost the only point at which for hundreds of miles she could with any ease have made a...
Página 45 - Provincetown harbour; and there she lies, with all her treasures, not of silver and gold, (for of these she has none,) but of courage, of patience, of zeal, of high spiritual daring. So often as I dwell in imagination on this scene; when...