Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 1812-1849, Volumi 1-75The Society, 1912 - 582 pagine |
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Pagina vi
... period Mr. Thomas says of four meetings held in Worcester : - under date of June 28 , 1821 , " very few members attended ; " November 28 , 1821 , " few attended " ; June 30 , 1825 , " adjourned for want of members to do busi- ness ...
... period Mr. Thomas says of four meetings held in Worcester : - under date of June 28 , 1821 , " very few members attended ; " November 28 , 1821 , " few attended " ; June 30 , 1825 , " adjourned for want of members to do busi- ness ...
Pagina vii
... period of prosperity , the attendance at the meetings was not large , and Mr. Baldwin records that at the May meeting in 1834 in Boston , " only four were present ; " at the annual meeting in Worcester in October " only one member from ...
... period of prosperity , the attendance at the meetings was not large , and Mr. Baldwin records that at the May meeting in 1834 in Boston , " only four were present ; " at the annual meeting in Worcester in October " only one member from ...
Pagina 2
... period than that of any other nation of Europe . The researches of a similar society in England , established at a later period , at times discouraged , but now aided and fostered by the patronage of the government , have not merely fur ...
... period than that of any other nation of Europe . The researches of a similar society in England , established at a later period , at times discouraged , but now aided and fostered by the patronage of the government , have not merely fur ...
Pagina 18
... period , a decline may be the state of our country . A depository like this , may not only retard the ravages of time , but preserve from other causes of destruction , many precious relics of antiquity , many specimens of the work of ...
... period , a decline may be the state of our country . A depository like this , may not only retard the ravages of time , but preserve from other causes of destruction , many precious relics of antiquity , many specimens of the work of ...
Pagina 28
... period of their arrange- ment of the signs of the Zodiack . But this pretended antiq- uity beyond the accounts of MOSES is amply disproved by the critical investigations of learned Antiquaries . Greece re- ceived her mythology from ...
... period of their arrange- ment of the signs of the Zodiack . But this pretended antiq- uity beyond the accounts of MOSES is amply disproved by the critical investigations of learned Antiquaries . Greece re- ceived her mythology from ...
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Pagina 87 - Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will shew thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Pagina 54 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death...
Pagina 18 - All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Pagina 57 - When the late Mr. Anson (lord Anson's brother) was upon his travels in the East, he hired a vessel to visit the isle of Tenedos. His pilot, an old Greek, as they were sailing along, said, with some satisfaction, " There it was our fleet lay." Mr. Anson demanded, "What fleet?" "What fleet?" replied the old man, (a little piqued at the question,) " Why, our Grecian fleet, at the siege of Troy.
Pagina 442 - This day there came unto the ship's side divers canoes, the Indians apparelled as aforesaid, with tobacco and pipes steeled with copper, skins, artificial strings and other trifles to barter ; one had hanging about his neck a plate of rich copper, in length a foot, in breadth half a foot for a breastplate, the ears of all the rest had pendants of copper.
Pagina iii - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
Pagina 52 - Britons attend :" be worth like this approv'd, And show you have the virtue to be mov'd. With honest scorn the first fam'd Cato view'd Rome learning arts from Greece, whom she subdu'd. Our scene precariously subsists too long On French translation, and Italian song : Dare to have sense yourselves ; assert the stage, Be justly warm'd with your own native rage.
Pagina 88 - For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow...
Pagina 196 - Commonwealth ; and that the Senators and Representatives of this State, in the Congress of the United States, be requested to use their best efforts to...
Pagina 183 - ... since been collected, to the depth of a man's height. They believe also, that in ancient times their ancestors lived till their feet were worn out with walking, and their throats with eating. They describe a deluge,. when the waters spread over the whole earth, except the highest mountains, on the tops of which they preserved themselves.