Historical Sketch of Col. Benjamin Bellows: Founder of Walpole : an Address, on Occasion of the Gathering of His Descendants to the Consecration of His Monument, at Walpole, N.H., Oct. 11, 1854J.A. Gray, prnter, 1855 - 125 էջ |
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HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COL. BENJAMIN BELLOWS, FOUNDER OF WALPOLE: AN ADDRESS ... HENRY W. BELLOWS Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1855 |
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Էջ 87 - The great trust now descends to new hands. Let us apply ourselves to that which is presented to us as our appropriate object. We can win no laurels in a war for independence. Earlier and worthier hands have gathered them all. Nor are there places for us by the side of Solon, and Alfred, and other founders of States.
Էջ 111 - Mind the Mortality of My body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in Decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executors nothing Doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Mighty Power of God...
Էջ 111 - Executors nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form — First.
Էջ 103 - And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her : and the Highest himself shall establish her.
Էջ 83 - If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Էջ 83 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt, for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language — nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Էջ 44 - Here William French his body lies. For murder his blood for vengeance cries. King Georg the third, his Tory crew, Tha with a bawl his head shot threw. For Liberty and his country's Good Ho lost his Life, his Dearest blood.
Էջ 14 - Persons abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.
Էջ 87 - Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Էջ 22 - Bellows had at this time about thirty men at his fort, about half a mile south of Kilburn's house, but too distant from it to afford him any aid. About noon on the 17th of August, 1755, Kilburn and his son John, in his eighteenth year, a man by the name of Peak and his son, were returning home to dinner from the field, when one of them discovered the red legs of the Indians among the alders,