The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress, Volume 11

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Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock
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Pagina 88 - I accept with singular pleasure the Ensign of so worthy a fraternity as that of the Sons of St. Patrick in this City, a society distinguished for the firm adherence of its members to the glorious cause in which we are embarked.
Pagina 333 - England in which we live. It may at first sight seem strange that society, while constantly moving forward with eager speed, should be constantly looking backward with tender regret. But these two propensities, inconsistent as they may appear, can easily be resolved into the same principle. Both spring from our impatience of the state in which we actually are. That impatience, while it stimulates us to surpass preceding generations, disposes us to overrate their...
Pagina 144 - The Council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, ruling, ordering and Governing of New England in America" and to them and their Successors grants all the lands, &c., Viz.
Pagina 321 - River, at three miles distance, on the north side thereof, beginning at the Atlantic Ocean and ending at a point due north of Pautucket Falls, and a straight line drawn from thence, due west, till it meets with His Majesty's other Governments.
Pagina 395 - Good mother, how shall we find a pig, if we do not look about for't ! will it run off o' the spit, into our mouths, think you, as in Lubberland, and cry, wee, wee!
Pagina 89 - I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality ; and I presume that your fellow-citizens will not forget the patriotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their revolution and the establishment of their government, or the important assistance which they received from a nation in which the Roman Catholic faith is professed.
Pagina 96 - ... least three months preceding the election, and if a majority of the electors voting at said election shall vote for- the proposed amendments, they shall become a part of this Constitution. But the General Assembly shall have no power to propose amendments to more than one Article of this Constitution at the same session, nor to the same Article oftener than once in four years.
Pagina 90 - ... actual violation, we have taken up arms ; when that violence shall be removed, and hostilities cease on the part of the aggressors, they shall cease on our part also. For the achievement of this happy event, we confide in the good offices of our fellowsubjects beyond the Atlantic'. Of their friendly disposition we do not yet despond ; aware as they must be, that they have nothing more to expect from the same common enemy, than the humble favor of being last devoured.
Pagina 196 - ... occupied by Willis in the republic of letters, and sketching graphically his literary environment and the main springs of his success. It is one of the best books of an excellent series. — Buffalo Times. "BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
Pagina 321 - Merrimac River, at three miles distance, on the north side thereof, beginning at the Atlantic Ocean and ending at a point due north of a place called Pautucket Falls, and by a straight line drawn from thence due west...

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