The Worcester Magazine and Historical Journal, Volume 11826 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 76
Page 11
... passed the night of the 30th , a night of deep anxiety to many , and of high excitement to all ; and many a will was made , as soldiers make their wills before morning . About an hour before day , the troops were as usual , under arms ...
... passed the night of the 30th , a night of deep anxiety to many , and of high excitement to all ; and many a will was made , as soldiers make their wills before morning . About an hour before day , the troops were as usual , under arms ...
Page 12
... passed on , and the hour of attack drew near , the clouds gradually collected into one black mass , directly over the devoted city ; and almost at the instant when our troops began to march into the trenches , the storm burst forth ...
... passed on , and the hour of attack drew near , the clouds gradually collected into one black mass , directly over the devoted city ; and almost at the instant when our troops began to march into the trenches , the storm burst forth ...
Page 13
... passed , when the low state of the tide giving evidence that the river might be forded , the word was given to ad- vance . Silent as the grave the column moved forward . In one instant the leading file had cleared the trenches , and the ...
... passed , when the low state of the tide giving evidence that the river might be forded , the word was given to ad- vance . Silent as the grave the column moved forward . In one instant the leading file had cleared the trenches , and the ...
Page 16
HISTORICAL . ORIGINAL . AMERICAN HISTORY . MORE than two hundred years have passed away , since the Pil- grim Fathers of New England landed upon the inhospitable coast of the land then so rude . It has changed since that time in a man ...
HISTORICAL . ORIGINAL . AMERICAN HISTORY . MORE than two hundred years have passed away , since the Pil- grim Fathers of New England landed upon the inhospitable coast of the land then so rude . It has changed since that time in a man ...
Page 19
... passed . The spoiler and the suffer- ing have perished . The song of the red hunter's festivity is hush- ed : the council fire has been quenched in the blood of those who stood around its blaze : the smoke no longer curls up from the ...
... passed . The spoiler and the suffer- ing have perished . The song of the red hunter's festivity is hush- ed : the council fire has been quenched in the blood of those who stood around its blaze : the smoke no longer curls up from the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afterwards appearance arms army beautiful beneath boat Boston branches CALIFORNIA LIBRARY called Church colony commenced committee Connecticut Continental army Council County of Worcester Court death deep depreciation distance earth east England English fathers feet fire forest friends Governor greenwood tree ground hand hath heart height hills honor Hubbardston hundred Indians inhabitants island John JOHN AVERY justice lake lake Nicaragua Lancaster land length Leominster lived Masassoit Massachusetts ment miles mind Molineux mountains Nashaway native night Nipmuc Northborough o'er officers passed peace Phillipston Plymouth pond present prince received rise river rock rods Sachem savage scene settlement shore side SIMON LARNED soldiers soon spot stream sufferings thee thence south thou tion Tisquantum town tree tribes UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA village Wampanoags West Boylston whole wild WILLIAM HULL wind wood
Popular passages
Page 169 - 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.
Page 169 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free...
Page 259 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against Writs of Assistance. Then and there, was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there, the child Independence was born.
Page 350 - LANZI'S History of Painting In Italy, from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the iSth Century.
Page 212 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Page 95 - Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows What's good, and doth no good: If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others' action; Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by a faction: If potentates reply, Give potentates the lie.
Page 304 - O'er each fair sleeping brow, She had each folded flower in sight— Where are those dreamers now? One midst the forests of the West, By a dark stream, is laid ; The Indian knows his place of rest Far in the cedar shade. The sea, the blue lone sea, hath one, He lies where pearls lie deep, He was the loved of all, yet none O'er his low bed may weep.
Page 31 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 128 - ... reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.
Page 96 - Then give them all the lie. Tell zeal it lacks devotion, Tell love it is but lust, Tell time it is but motion. Tell flesh it is but dust; And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie.