Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volumen16American Antiquarian Society., 1905 - 6 páginas |
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... Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions , was of sturdy English ancestry , which his son in after life delighted to trace . His mother was the granddaughter of the distinguished Roger Sherman of Connecticut . Her father and the ...
... Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions , was of sturdy English ancestry , which his son in after life delighted to trace . His mother was the granddaughter of the distinguished Roger Sherman of Connecticut . Her father and the ...
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... Board of Directors of the Free Public Library of Worcester , in which , as well as in the park system of the city , he was greatly interested . He was one of the first to suggest and found the St. Wulstan Society , a social club of ...
... Board of Directors of the Free Public Library of Worcester , in which , as well as in the park system of the city , he was greatly interested . He was one of the first to suggest and found the St. Wulstan Society , a social club of ...
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... board , a considerable portion of the time as chairman of the high school committee ; was for many years a trustee of Brown University ( his alma mater ) ; and for the last twenty - five years of his life an active and influential ...
... board , a considerable portion of the time as chairman of the high school committee ; was for many years a trustee of Brown University ( his alma mater ) ; and for the last twenty - five years of his life an active and influential ...
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... board . In one of the buildings were " twenty - six looms weaving fustians , calicoes , nankins , nankinets , dimities , etc. , " and ten other looms in the neighborhood were employed , all having " the newly invented spring shuttle ...
... board . In one of the buildings were " twenty - six looms weaving fustians , calicoes , nankins , nankinets , dimities , etc. , " and ten other looms in the neighborhood were employed , all having " the newly invented spring shuttle ...
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... board including washing , and they received from $ 2.33 to $ 2.75 per week for their services . Children were employed , some even as young as eight or ten years , and the wheels ran daily twelve hours , for six days in the week . Every ...
... board including washing , and they received from $ 2.33 to $ 2.75 per week for their services . Children were employed , some even as young as eight or ten years , and the wheels ran daily twelve hours , for six days in the week . Every ...
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Página 98 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 112 - Squanto stood them in great stead, showing them both the manner how to set it, and after how to dress and tend it. Also he told them, except they got fish and set with it in these old grounds it would come to nothing.
Página 389 - I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear, that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government...
Página 109 - The Empire State, as you love to call it, was once laced by our trails from Albany to Buffalo — trails that we had trod for centuries — trails worn so deep by the feet of the Iroquois that they became your roads of travel, as your possessions gradually eat into those of my people. Your roads still traverse those same lines of communication which bound one part of the Long House to the other. Have we, the first holders of this prosperous region, no longer a share in your history ? Glad were your...
Página 184 - She will probably become what we are now, the head servant in the great household of the World, the employer of all employed ; because her service will be the most and ablest.
Página 189 - Thus, the house which was commenced in 1786, was finished in 1818, having been thirty-two years in building. The controversy concerning Levi Harvey's mill privilege and flowage rights arose in this way. Away back in 1780, an article was inserted in the warrant to see if the town would adopt any method to build mills in said town, but the vote was that as a town they could not do anything as to building mills. But it seems that some individuals gave said Harvey a bond that they would purchase the...
Página 23 - He had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter, in Scott's romance, commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which, whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and cloth of gold.
Página 98 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; TOO His soul, proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way ; Yet simple Nature to his hope has...
Página 25 - I made any inquiry, for every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to Spin and Card, and as every family is furnished with a Loom, the Itinerant Weavers who travel about the Country, put the finishing hand to the Work.
Página 109 - The trading posts reached by these trails were on the sites of Indian villages which had been placed in positions suggested by nature; and these trading posts, situated so as to command the water systems of the country, have grown into such cities as Albany, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Council Bluffs, and Kansas City.