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... MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OLD - FASHIONED VEHI- CLES - DRESS OF OUR OLD PEOPLE · DOMESTIC AR- RANGEMENTS - ANCIENT MODE OF CARDING AND SPINNING TRAVELING XVI TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY YEARS AGO ( 1602 ) — THE ELIZABETH ISLANDS - NEW BEDFORD ...
... MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OLD - FASHIONED VEHI- CLES - DRESS OF OUR OLD PEOPLE · DOMESTIC AR- RANGEMENTS - ANCIENT MODE OF CARDING AND SPINNING TRAVELING XVI TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY YEARS AGO ( 1602 ) — THE ELIZABETH ISLANDS - NEW BEDFORD ...
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... manner , with heavy bass voice , very noticeable in his common conversation , which was delivered in a kind of deep monotone , and his words fell as with iron weight . Still he was a peaceable as well as highly respectable citizen . At ...
... manner , with heavy bass voice , very noticeable in his common conversation , which was delivered in a kind of deep monotone , and his words fell as with iron weight . Still he was a peaceable as well as highly respectable citizen . At ...
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... manners , an exem- plary member of the Society of Friends , and for a long time the clerk of the Monthly Meeting . Here were to be found a good assortment of English books , both poetry and prose , excellent stationery , and cutlery ...
... manners , an exem- plary member of the Society of Friends , and for a long time the clerk of the Monthly Meeting . Here were to be found a good assortment of English books , both poetry and prose , excellent stationery , and cutlery ...
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... tainly superior in person and manner , at least in my boyish estimation . Peace to their memories . The southwest room was the library , containing some fifteen hundred volumes , the gift of Samuel Elam NEW BEDFORD OF THE PAST 3333.
... tainly superior in person and manner , at least in my boyish estimation . Peace to their memories . The southwest room was the library , containing some fifteen hundred volumes , the gift of Samuel Elam NEW BEDFORD OF THE PAST 3333.
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... Barney , a member of the Society of Friends , an auctioneer , was quite a marked character , both from his personal appearance and manner . His face was broad and ruddy , his body large and long NEW BEDFORD OF THE PAST 43.
... Barney , a member of the Society of Friends , an auctioneer , was quite a marked character , both from his personal appearance and manner . His face was broad and ruddy , his body large and long NEW BEDFORD OF THE PAST 43.
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Page 51 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 115 - Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity, Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be ! For gentleness, and love, and trust, Prevail o'er angry wave and gust...
Page 30 - OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 109 - Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?
Page 170 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 115 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 87 - The humble, meek, merciful, just, pious, and devout souls are everywhere of one religion, and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
Page 83 - THE Quaker of the olden time! — How calm and firm and true, Unspotted by its wrong and crime. He walked the dark earth through The lust of power, the love of gain, The thousand lures of sin Around him, had no power to stain The purity within. With that deep insight which detects All great things in the small, And knows how each man's life affects The spiritual life of all, He walked by faith and not by sight, By love and not by law ; The presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw.