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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 539 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 88 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 58 0 Browse Search
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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 54 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 44 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 39 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 38 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 38 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 36 0 Browse Search
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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
ic glory that would attend it, I cannot but wish it. I have deep resentments of your respects to my unworthy self: it is what I am most apt to be proud of, that I have in any measure your smiles. The argument you urge my compliance from in case and of your presence, &c., is without flattery the greatest temptation from the head of honor that could assault me. His literary attainments were further recognized by his election as a member of the Royal Society,—an honor conferred on very few Americans. After a languishing distemper which he bore with great patience and resignation, he died with peace and an extraordinary serenity of mind, Feb. 15, 1716-17, in the fifty-fifth year of his age. An obituary appeared in the Boston News Letter, dated Feb. 25, in which it is said that his good name while he lived was better than precious ointment, and his memory, now being that of the just, will be always blessed. They that had the happiness to know Mr. Brattle, knew a very religious, good m
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 21: military History. (search)
large number of bullet-holes. These four, with the twenty-two slain in the northwest precinct, make a total of twenty-six,— more than half of the whole number of Americans whose lives were sacrificed on that memorable day. Among the victims were six inhabitants of Cambridge, three on each side of Menotomy River. The old monuh Light Infantry, in boats, came over from Boston, and landed on Lechmere's Point. The centinels on the point came off; the alarm was given; and several hundred Americans forded over the causeway, The New England Chronicle, Nov. 16, says: The tide was very full, and our men were retarded in getting to the point by being obliged deep. The British, seeing the spirit of the Americans, although they were very advantageously posted, made a precipitate retreat to their boats. Three or four Americans were wounded, one mortally. The British ship and floating-batteries kept up a brisk fire, but to little purpose. Memoirs, p. 30. Dec. 12. A causeway was begu
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
., and there d. 25 Oct. 1776. 6. Thomas, S. of William (5), grad. H. C. 1760, and was Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Mass. Historical Society. He was in Europe when the Revolutionary War commenced; and, perhaps chiefly on account of his father's apostacy, he was proscribed as an absentee in 1778. He returned to Newport, R. 1. in 1779, but was not permitted to reside in Massachusetts until 1784, when he was forgiven on account of his kindness and generosity to Americans in Europe. It is doubtful whether he was a thorough Tory; but it is certain he was not an active one. He was too fond of luxurious ease to peril life, limb, or personal comfort, upon any political question. After his return, he lived in quietness among his fellow-townsmen. His house was open to his friends, where he dispensed a most generous hospitality. The taste he displayed in ornamenting his grounds, and cultivating the choicest fruits and flowers, was a subject of general admirat
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, B. (search)
., and there d. 25 Oct. 1776. 6. Thomas, S. of William (5), grad. H. C. 1760, and was Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Mass. Historical Society. He was in Europe when the Revolutionary War commenced; and, perhaps chiefly on account of his father's apostacy, he was proscribed as an absentee in 1778. He returned to Newport, R. 1. in 1779, but was not permitted to reside in Massachusetts until 1784, when he was forgiven on account of his kindness and generosity to Americans in Europe. It is doubtful whether he was a thorough Tory; but it is certain he was not an active one. He was too fond of luxurious ease to peril life, limb, or personal comfort, upon any political question. After his return, he lived in quietness among his fellow-townsmen. His house was open to his friends, where he dispensed a most generous hospitality. The taste he displayed in ornamenting his grounds, and cultivating the choicest fruits and flowers, was a subject of general admirat