Collections of the Maine Historical Society, المجلد 4

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The Society, 1856
 

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الصفحة 259 - 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; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
الصفحة 259 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, 190 Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
الصفحة 259 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place...
الصفحة 22 - Or seeks the den where snow-tracks mark the way, And drags the struggling savage into day. At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down the monarch of a shed ; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze...
الصفحة 161 - GEORGE the Third, by the grace of GOD of Great-Britain, France and Ireland King, defender of the faith, and so forth; and in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
الصفحة 168 - Lieutenant Governor and Commander In Chief in and over his Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay In New England, and to the Honourable the Council and the Honourable the House of Representatives In General Court assembled.
الصفحة 55 - Each stockholder shall be entitled to as many votes as he holds shares of capital stock.
الصفحة 123 - Esq; Captain General and Governour in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.
الصفحة 85 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
الصفحة 217 - Whereupon he left his intended lading behind him, and, instead thereof, carried with him his old neighbours and their families, free of all charges to Boston ; so the first action that he did, after he was his own man, was to save his father's house, with the rest of the...

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