Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parson Morton, Vice-president of the United States (1889-1893).

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Printed at the Riverside Press, 1894 - 191 стор.
 

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Сторінка 167 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Сторінка 3 - And when I had more seriously considered of the bewty of the place, with all her faire indowments, I did not thinke that in all the knowne world it could be paralel'd. For so many goodly groues of trees ; dainty fine round rising hillucks : delicate faire large plaines, sweete cristall fountaines, and cleare running streames, that twine in fine meanders through the meads...
Сторінка 4 - ... worth in a morning. They also set up a maypole, drinking and dancing about it many days together, inviting the Indian women for their consorts, dancing and frisking together like so many fairies, or furies, rather; and worse practices. As if they had anew revived and celebrated the feasts of the Roman goddess Flora, or the beastly practices of the mad Bacchanalians.
Сторінка 3 - The more I looked, the more I liked it. And when I had more seriously considered of the bewty of the place, with all her faire indowments, I did not thinke that in all the knowne world it could be paralel'd...
Сторінка 19 - New England's Memorial ; or, A brief relation of the most memorable and remarkable passages of the providence of God, manifested to the planters of New- England in America ; with special reference to the first colony thereof, called NewPlimouth.
Сторінка 17 - Plymouth ; laboring to still the discontents that sometimes would arise amongst some spirits, by occasion of the difficulties of these new beginnings; but it pleased God to put a period to his days soon after his arrival in New England, not surviving a full year after his coming ashore.
Сторінка 16 - Lord will, the putting to of my shoulder in this hopeful business, and in the meantime, these relations coming to my hand from my both known and faithful friends, on whose writings I do much rely, I thought it not amiss to make them more general...
Сторінка 21 - The Work itself is Compiled with Modesty of Spirit, Simplicity of Style, and truth of Matter, containing the Annals of New-England for the space of 47 years, with special reference to Plimouth Colony, which was the first, and where the Author hath had his constant abode...
Сторінка 22 - To the memory of our brave and pious ancestors, the first settlers of the Old Colony. 2. To the memory of John Carver and all the other worthy Governors of the Old Colony. 3. To the memory of that pious man and faithful historian, Mr. Secretary Morton.
Сторінка 14 - Nawset, to seeke a boy that had lost himselfe in the woods : with such accidents as befell them in that voyage. III. In their iourney to the Kingdome of Namaschet, in defence of their greatest King Massasoyt, against the Narrohiggonsets, and to reuenge the supposed death of their Interpreter Tisquantum.

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