The Story of Byfield: A New England ParishG.E. Littlefield, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Adams Albert Pike ancient beautiful Benjamin Bishopstoke born Boston boys brother Byfield called Capt Cheney Chief-Justice Christian church Chute Colman committee Congregational Daniel Dartmouth daughter Deacon death diary died Dummer Academy Eliphalet Pearson England enlisted entry Essex County Ewell father Fatherland Farm Forbes George Georgetown Gerrish Governor Hale Harvard honor hundred Indian Jackman Jewett John John Searle Joseph Judge June land lived Long Hill Longfellow Massachusetts meeting meeting-house memory mentioned mill minister Miss Moody's Moses Parsons Nathaniel Newbury Newburyport Northend Noyes parish Parker Cleaveland parsonage pastor patriotic Paul Moody Pike Pillsbury preacher preaching President probably pulpit pupils record religious River Rogers Rowley Samuel Samuel Moody Samuel Tenney Samuel Webber says Searle sermon Sewall Stickney teacher Tenney Theophilus Parsons Thomas Thomas Pike tion town voted Warren Street wife William Woodman worship worthy young
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Pagina 51 - And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem. 28 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
Pagina 279 - God. 3 He feeds in pastures large and fair, Of love and truth divine ; O child of God, O glory's heir ! How rich a lot is thine ! 4 A hand almighty to defend, An ear for every call, An honored life, a peaceful end, And heaven to crown it all ! 9()9.
Pagina 93 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.
Pagina 67 - Let merchants, and such as are increasing cent, per cent., remember this, that worldly gain was not the end and design of the people of New England, but religion. And if any man among us make religion as twelve, and the world as thirteen, such an one hath not the spirit of a true New Englishman.
Pagina 16 - ... hero, trained to wars, Quivered and plumed, and lithe and tall, And seamed with glorious scars, Walk forth, amid his reign, to dare The wolf, and grapple with the bear. This bank, in which the dead were laid, Was sacred when its soil was ours ; Hither the artless Indian maid Brought wreaths of beads and flowers, And the gray chief and gifted seer Worshipped the God of thunders here.
Pagina 90 - Gabriel Lajeunesse, the son of Basil the blacksmith, Who was a mighty man in the village, and honored of all men ; For since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute by the people.
Pagina 282 - Lord! we would not advise; But if in thy Providence A tempest should arise To drive the French fleet hence, And scatter it far and wide, Or sink it in the sea, We should be satisfied, And thine the glory be.
Pagina 13 - Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged Year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart.
Pagina 147 - ... second governing board of Harvard University — the Overseers — a French Bonaparte, a member of the Roman Catholic Church, sits beside a Scotch farmer's son, Presbyterian by birth and education, now become the leader in every sense of the most famous Puritan church in Boston. The democracy also promotes human beings of remarkable natural gifts who appear as sudden outbursts of personal power, without prediction or announcement through family merit.
Pagina 49 - ... them to assist in admitting of persons into church society, and in church censures, so long as they act regularly; but in case of their mal-administration, they assume the power wholly to themselves.