... today we round out the first century of a professed republic,--with woman figuratively representing freedom--and yet all free,... save woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Puritans, to keep the remembrance of their unity one with another, and of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their... forest settlement CONCORD.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The worst feature in the history of those years, is, that no man spake for the Indian. When the Dutch, or the French, or the Engli...sh royalist disagreed with the Colony, there was always found a Dutch or French, or tory party,--an earnest minority,--to keep things from extremity. But the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den. It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hard labor and spare diet they had, and off wooden trenchers, but they had peace and freedom, and the wailing of the tempest in th...e woods sounded kindlier in their ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in histo...ry, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »