...Historic Boston and Its NeighborhoodThis little book is not so much a guide book in itself as an introduction or key to local guides,or a preparation for conversation with intelligent Boston people, who will meet a newcomer into that town. Every summer there arrive people from different parts of the world who have a curiosity about the history of Boston, or about its activities in past times, which they would gladly gratifiy, as well as possible, in a few days' stay there. |
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... English - speaking people ; certainly James hoped it would be . Percy paraded his men early and marched them out from the Common to what we call Tremont Street , and there they were drawn up across the head of School Street , all ready ...
... English - speaking people ; certainly James hoped it would be . Percy paraded his men early and marched them out from the Common to what we call Tremont Street , and there they were drawn up across the head of School Street , all ready ...
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... one hundred and twenty - two years , you pass between two pretty squares , east and west of Washington Street . Tell the boys that here were the farthest redoubts held by the English troops . Dr. Weld WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS . 17.
... one hundred and twenty - two years , you pass between two pretty squares , east and west of Washington Street . Tell the boys that here were the farthest redoubts held by the English troops . Dr. Weld WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS . 17.
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Edward Everett Hale. farthest redoubts held by the English troops . Dr. Weld told me he had often driven his father's cows over them . Ask the driver or conductor to show you the old burial ground at Eustis Street . Go up the hill to the ...
Edward Everett Hale. farthest redoubts held by the English troops . Dr. Weld told me he had often driven his father's cows over them . Ask the driver or conductor to show you the old burial ground at Eustis Street . Go up the hill to the ...
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... English shore . All the Percys were Smith- sons by name , Lord Percy's father being only the third duke of this creation . The Dudley line of Dukes of Northumberland had run out in another century , or had been beheaded . With the boys ...
... English shore . All the Percys were Smith- sons by name , Lord Percy's father being only the third duke of this creation . The Dudley line of Dukes of Northumberland had run out in another century , or had been beheaded . With the boys ...
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... English tongues , still you need not ask anybody where to go . Just show yourselves on Tremont or Washington Streets ,. and look at the electrics northward bound till you see one marked " BUNKER HILL ! " Somebody complains because he ...
... English tongues , still you need not ask anybody where to go . Just show yourselves on Tremont or Washington Streets ,. and look at the electrics northward bound till you see one marked " BUNKER HILL ! " Somebody complains because he ...
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Page 36 - Yankee Doodle, keep it up, Yankee Doodle, dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy. And there we see a thousand men, As rich as 'Squire David; And what they wasted every day, I wish it could be saved.
Page 51 - The heavens were black with cloud, The sea was white with hail, And ever more fierce and loud Blew the October gale. The fleet it overtook, And the broad sails in the van Like the tents of Cushan shook, Or the curtains of Midian. Down on the reeling decks Crashed the o'erwhelming seas ; Ah, never were there wrecks So pitiful as these ! Like a potter's vessel broke The great ships of the line ; They were carried away as a smoke, Or sank like lead in the brine. O Lord ! before thy path They vanished...
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Page 36 - I'll be bound, They eat it when they're a mind to. And there we see a swamping gun, Large as a log of maple, Upon a deuced little cart, A load for father's cattle. And every time they shoot it off, It takes a horn of powder, And makes a noise like father's gun, Only a nation louder. I went as nigh to one myself As Siah's underpinning; And father went as nigh again, I thought the deuce was in him.
Page 43 - Hill be maintained by sufficient force being posted there ; and as the particular situation of Dorchester Neck is unknown to this Committee, they advise that the Council of War take and pursue such steps respecting the same, as to them shall appear to be for the security of this colony.
Page 36 - em. He got him on his meeting clothes, Upon a slapping stallion, He set the world along in rows, In hundreds and in millions.
Page 51 - And even as I prayed The answering tempest came ; It came with a mighty power, Shaking the windows and walls, And tolling the bell in the tower, As it tolls at funerals. The lightning suddenly Unsheathed its flaming sword, And I cried : " Stand still, and see The salvation of the Lord! " The heavens were black with cloud, The sea was white with hail, And ever more fierce and loud Blew the October gale. The fleet it overtook, And the broad sails in the van Like the tents of Cushan shook, Or the curtains...
Page 36 - Upon a mighty little cart; A load for father's cattle. And every time they fired it off, It took a horn of powder; It made a noise like father's gun, Only a nation louder.
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Page 61 - Elector basely sold Eagle and flag for George's gold ; And, in the storm of war, In crash of battle, thick and dark, Beneath the rifle-shot of Stark, The war-worn staff, the crest of gold, The scutcheon proud and storied fold, In surges of defeat were rolled. So even Roman banners fall To screen the time stains on our wall ! Beneath the war flag's faded fold I see our sovereigns of old On magic canvas there. The tired face of "baby Charles...