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... reading some of your honored father's sketches of old New Bed- ford . The names are mostly unknown to me , but I can easily see how valuable these reminiscences may be to the descendants of these old citizens in time to come , and how ...
... reading some of your honored father's sketches of old New Bed- ford . The names are mostly unknown to me , but I can easily see how valuable these reminiscences may be to the descendants of these old citizens in time to come , and how ...
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... head of the meeting , " his very presence seems calculated to inspire a respect for the princi- ples of peace he so truly inculcated both by precept and example . My older readers will recognize this as NEW BEDFORD OF THE PAST.
... head of the meeting , " his very presence seems calculated to inspire a respect for the princi- ples of peace he so truly inculcated both by precept and example . My older readers will recognize this as NEW BEDFORD OF THE PAST.
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Daniel Ricketson Anna Ricketson, Walton Ricketson. and example . My older readers will recognize this as a portraiture of the late William Rotch , Sr. Here we will leave him for the present , and conclude this hasty sketch , which is ...
Daniel Ricketson Anna Ricketson, Walton Ricketson. and example . My older readers will recognize this as a portraiture of the late William Rotch , Sr. Here we will leave him for the present , and conclude this hasty sketch , which is ...
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... readers in our last chapter at the bar- room of the old " Eagle Hotel ; " but as we trust that they are good temperance people , we presume no harm was done them thereby , although unquestion- ably large quantities of the " best of ...
... readers in our last chapter at the bar- room of the old " Eagle Hotel ; " but as we trust that they are good temperance people , we presume no harm was done them thereby , although unquestion- ably large quantities of the " best of ...
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... readers will not greatly demur thereat , but attribute it to nothing worse than the natural im- pressions made upon the mind of one who has already outlived a large number of those whom he remembers as actively engaged in the usual ...
... readers will not greatly demur thereat , but attribute it to nothing worse than the natural im- pressions made upon the mind of one who has already outlived a large number of those whom he remembers as actively engaged in the usual ...
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Abraham Acushnet Acushnet village Allen beautiful Bedford Benjamin born Boston boys brig Brown University building built called Capt Captain character Charles church Clark's Point Cornelius Grinnell corner County Street Daniel Ricketson Dartmouth died doubtlessly dress early eyes Fairhaven father fifty years ago former George handsome Hathaway honor horses human James Howland John John Coggeshall Joseph Ricketson Joseph Russell Kempton late Lemuel Lemuel Williams Main Street manner mansion marked Mason Williams meeting-house memory merchants Nantucket native occupied old citizen old-fashioned older once past peace physician pleasant present prosperity Quaker remember residence sail Samuel Rodman Samuel West scenes Seth Seth H ship Society of Friends soul stood Taunton Thomas tion town township Tucker usually vessels Water Street West whale fishery wife William Baylies William Rotch wood wore youth
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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.