Dorchester in 1630, 1776, and 1855: An Oration Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1855D. Clapp, 1855 - 158 páginas |
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4th of July American ancestors ancient town anniversary Applause army birth-day bless Boston Bowdoin called Capt celebration century Charles Cheers church citizens of Dorchester civil colony command Committee Daniel Denny descendants Dorches Dorchester Heights Dorchester neck duty early Edmund Hartt EDWARD EVERETT eloquent emigration England ENOCH TRAIN fathers feel fellow citizens festivities freedom friends Gentlemen George Governor Harvard College Hill honor Independence interest invitation James James Bowdoin James Swan John Mears JULIUS ROCKWELL land large number liberty Liberty County lives Massachusetts Mattapan Maverick Meeting-house memory ment military MOTTO Nahum Capen nation native obedient servant occasion Old Dorchester Oliver Hall orator patriotic political present President prosperity respect Richard Mather Robinson Roxbury RUFUS CHOATE Samuel SAMUEL BRECK School sentiment settlement settlers society Stoughton Swan Thomas Tileston tion to-day town of Dorchester United Washington WILDER William
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Página 133 - From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word : Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Página 46 - God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness...
Página 102 - The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, both now and evermore.
Página 66 - The reflection on my situation, and that of this army, produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in, on a thousand accounts ; fewer still will believe, if any disaster happens to these lines, from what causes it flows.
Página 99 - Tell me, ye who make your pious pilgrimage to the shades of Vernon, is Washington indeed shut up in that cold and narrow house? That which made these men, and men like these, cannot die. The hand that traced the charter of independence is, indeed, motionless; the eloquent lips that sustained it are hushed; but the lofty spirits that conceived, resolved, and maintained it, and which alone, to such men, "make it life to live...
Página 60 - ... to join with the Members, who may be sent from this and the Neighboring Towns in the Province, and to meet with them on a time to be agreed on, in a General Provincial Congress, to act upon such Matters, as may come before you, in such a manner, as shall appear to you most conducive to the true Interest of this Town and Province, and most likely to preserve the Liberties of all America.
Página 63 - ... as barbarous, vulgar distinctions, in which many nations, whom we look upon with little respect or value, have equalled if not far exceeded us. This is the peculiar and appropriated glory of England.
Página 66 - Few people know the predicament we are in on a thousand accounts ; fewer still will believe, if any disaster happens to these lines, .from what cause it flows. I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting the command, under such circumstances, I had taken my musket on my shoulder and entered the ranks ; or, if I could have justified the measure to posterity and my own conscience, had retired to the back country and lived in a wigwam.
Página 27 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all...
Página 44 - Before I saw Father Clap, I thought the Bishop of Rome had the gravest aspect of any man I ever saw ; but really the minister of Newport has the most venerable appearance.