Centennial Celebration at Danvers, Mass., June 16, 1852 |
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Centennial Celebration at Danvers, Mass., June 16, 1852 Danvers (Mass ). John Waters Proctor No preview available - 2019 |
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A. A. Abbott Abbott Lawrence American Andrew Nichols arch banner barouche beautiful benefactor bless Boston called Capt carriage celebration Centennial character cheers Church Committee decorated dinner distinguished District dressed duty Endicott England evergreen fathers feel fellow-citizens festival Fitch Poole flags flowers friends gentlemen George Osborne George Peabody Gideon Foster gratitude guest heart Holten honor hundred inhabitants interest invitation Israel Putnam John John Endicott labor ladies land Library living London Lyceum memory mind moral motto Nathan Dane nations native town noble occasion Osborn patriotism Peabody Institute Peabody's pleasure present President procession Proctor prosperity Putnam R. S. Daniels reception respect Rufus Choate Salem Samuel Samuel Holten sentiment South Danvers spirit streamers Street thee tion to-day town of Danvers townsman village virtues Warren Bank wealth Witchcraft worthy wreaths YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 154 - 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 have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Page 49 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Page 46 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 47 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 63 - When the war-drum throbs no longer, And the battle-flags are furled In the parliament of man, The federation of the world.
Page 102 - In acknowledgment of the payment of that debt by the generation which preceded me in my native town of Danvers, and to aid in its prompt, future discharge, I give to the inhabitants of that town the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the promotion of knowledge and morality among them.
Page 160 - I following — when a step, A single step, that freed me from the skirts Of the blind vapour, opened to my view Glory beyond all glory 'ever seen By waking sense or by the dreaming soul!
Page 115 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 164 - ... morning, not at all satisfied with what he has done himself, though he does not yet see how he could have improved it ; recalling with dread and self-disparagement, if not with envy, the brilliant effort of his antagonist, and tormenting himself with the vain wish that he could have replied to it — and...
Page 46 - Our exhibitors arrived friendless, some of them penniless, in the great commercial Babel of the world. They found the portion of the Crystal Palace assigned to our country unprepared for the specimens of art and industry which they had brought with them; naked and unadorned by the side of the neighboring arcades and galleries fitted up with elegance and splendor by the richest governments in Europe. The English press began to launch its too ready sarcasms at the sorry appearance which Brother Jonathan...