Proceedings at the Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Settlement of Guilford, Conn: September 8th, 9th, and 10th, 1889 |
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100 years old Andrew Ward Baldwin Bela Hubbard Belonged Benjamin Hoadley Benton Bishop born Bushnell Capt century Chair Charles Chittenden Christ Church civil committee Congregational Congregational Church Conn Connecticut Connecticut Colony Deacon death descendant died Dowd Dudley early East Guilford East River Eliot Elliott England faith fathers Fitz-Greene Halleck ford Fowler George Governor Green Griswold Guil Guilford and Madison Hart Hartford Haven Colony Henry Whitfield Hill honor Hubbard Indian John Elliott John Higginson John Hoadley Johnson Jonathan Todd Joseph Killingworth land Landon Leete's lived LOANED BY MISS Maria Halleck married Meigs minister ministry Munger native North Guilford North Madison Norton Ockley ordination parish Parmelee pastor Pewter planters poet preached President Puritan Quinnipiack rector Rossiter Samuel Scranton Sermon settlement settlers Society soldiers spirit Starr Steiner Thomas Ruggles thought tion to-day voted wife Wilcox William Leete Yale College
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Page 66 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 170 - Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning.
Page 113 - A justice of the peace, for the time being, They bow to, but may turn him out next year; They reverence their priest, but disagreeing In price or creed, dismiss him without fear; They have a natural talent for forseeing And knowing all things ; and should Park appear From his long tour in Africa, to show The Niger's source, they'd meet him with —
Page 114 - Or, wandering through the Southern countries, teaching The ABC from WEBSTER'S spelling-book ; Gallant and godly, making love and preaching, And gaining, by what they call ' hook and crook,' And what the moralists call overreaching, A decent living. The Virginians look Upon them with as favorable eyes As GABRIEL on the Devil in Paradise.
Page 115 - Boccaccio's tales Of Florence and the Arno; yet the wing Of life's best angel, Health, is on her gales Through sun and snow; and, in the autumn time Earth has no purer and no lovelier clime. Her clear, warm heaven at noon, — the mist that shrouds Her twilight hills — her cool and starry eves, The glorious splendor of her sunset clouds, The rainbow beauty of her forest leaves...
Page 47 - By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Page 52 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. She...
Page 170 - And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.
Page 66 - Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
Page 115 - And who were they, our fathers? In their veins Ran the best blood of England's gentlemen; Her bravest in the strife on battle-plains, Her wisest in the strife of voice and pen; Her holiest, teaching, in her holiest fanes, The lore that led to martyrdom; and when On this side ocean slept their wearied sails, And their toil-bells woke up our thousand hills and dales, XXIV Shamed they their fathers?