Exercises in Celebrating the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge, Held December 28, 1880University Press, John Wilson, 1881 - 163 pages |
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Page 138 - ... and munition 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.
Page 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.
Page 56 - The punishment of petit treason in a man is, to be drawn and hanged, and in a woman to be drawn and burned...
Page 56 - ... 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 except two,...
Page 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,...
Page 30 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Page 139 - This fortification was actually made ; and the fosse which was then dug around the town, is, in some places, visible, to this day. It commenced at Brick Wharf, (originally called Windmill Hill) and ran along the northern side of the present Common in Cambridge, and through what was then a thicket, but now constitutes a part of the cultivated grounds of Mr. Nathaniel Jarvis ; beyond which it cannot be distinctly traced. It enclosed above 1000 acres.
Page 53 - Because singular things of the same kind, when they are multiplied, are differenced among themselves by their singular properties ; but there cannot be found another God differenced from this by any such like properties.
Page 56 - But in treasons of every kind the punishment of "women is the same, and different from that of men. For, as " the decency due to the sex forbids the exposing and publicly
Page 60 - ... a paper of which the following is a copy, and at the head of the body delivered it to Lieut. Governor Oliver to sign, with which he complied, after obtaining their consent to add the latter clause implying the force by which he was compelled to do it. ... [Here follows text of document he signed.] The Gentlemen from Boston, Charlestown and Cambridge having provided some refreshment for their greatly fatigued brethren, they cheerfully accepted it, took leave and departed in high good humour and...