The Women of the Mayflower and Women of Plymouth Colony

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Gryphon Books, 1921 - Massachusetts - 197 pages

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Page 72 - OW slow yon tiny vessel ploughs the main ! Amid the heavy billows now she seems A toiling atom — then from wave to wave Leaps madly, by the tempest lashed — or reels, Half wrecked, through gulfs profound. — Moons, wax and wane.
Page 62 - ... to depart, their reverend pastor falling down on his knees (and they all with him,) with watery cheeks commended them with most fervent prayers to the Lord and his blessing.
Page 63 - And a dew was distill'd from their flowers that gave All the fragrance of summer, when summer was gone. Thus memory draws from delight, ere it dies, , An essence that breathes of it many a year ; Thus bright to my soul, as 'twas then to my eyes, Is that bower on the banks of the calm Bendemeer...
Page 52 - Let your women keep silence in the churches.' Neither can it be known — if they had a voice — whether the wives and daughters of some of the embarking Pilgrims, who did not go themselves at this time, voted with their husbands and fathers for removal.
Page 182 - Blessed will it be for us, blessed for this land, for this vast continent ! Nay, from generation to generation will the blessing descend.
Page 30 - ... first conflicts and sharp beginnings (as it was no marvel), yet many more came on with fresh courage and greatly animated others. And in the end, notwithstanding all these storms of opposition, they all got over at length, some at one time and some at another, and some in one place and some in another, and met together again according to their desires, with no small rejoicing.
Page 143 - In the early summer, Ellen Newton married John Adams, which was of interest to those who had crossed with her in the Anne, and kindly observed by others.
Page 193 - The late Henry Billings Brown, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States...
Page 20 - Yet it seemed the best thing they could do for themselves and their children.
Page 189 - Greely, the Arctic explorer, watched over by the God of his Pilgrim forefathers, was saved by the naval relief expedition to do good to the country, which is his on a claim of more than two centuries.

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