Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Bände 62-69American Antiquarian Society., 1874 |
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American Antiquarian Society ancient Annual Report April April 23 archæology ASSOCIATION Bank Stock Boston Boston.-His Catalogue Centennial character CHARLES CHARLES DEANE Chiapas Church collection copy Cotton Mather Council discoveries early edition England F. W. PUTNAM files of newspapers Fund is invested Hampshire HAVEN HENRY Hissarlik HISTORICAL SOCIETY Homer hundred Iliad Indians ISAAC DAVIS John JOSEPH SARGENT Journal Judge labor laws learned Librarian LL.D manuscript maps Massachusetts Maya Mayan Mayapan meeting ment Mérida Messrs Mexico NATHANIEL PAINE nation native Palenque pamphlets paper as issued Philadelphia phlets photographs poems Present amount President printed Proceedings Prof PROPRIETORS Railroad Bonds Railroad Stock Received for dividends record remarkable ruins SAMUEL says Schliemann scholar semi-annual SOCIETY.-Their Spaniards statute STEPHEN SALISBURY stone Thomas tion town Treasurer Troy Uxmal volumes WASHBURN witchcraft WORCESTER COUNTY Worcester.-The writer York Yucatan
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Seite 70 - All the laws, which have heretofore been adopted, used and approved in the province, colony or state of Massachusetts Bay, and usually practised on in the courts of law, shall still remain and be in full force until altered or repealed by the legislature ; such parts only excepted as are repugnant to the rights and liberties contained in this constitution.
Seite 19 - How small, of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
Seite 69 - Of my celestial patroness, who deigns Her nightly visitation unimplored, And dictates to me slumbering, or inspires Easy my unpremeditated verse, Since first this subject for heroic song Pleased me, long choosing and beginning late.
Seite 27 - It wrought out through Wesley and the revival of the eighteenth century the work of religious reform which its earlier efforts had only thrown back for a hundred years. Slowly but steadily it introduced its own seriousness and purity into English society, English literature, English politics. The whole history of English progress since the Restoration, on its moral and spiritual sides, has been the history of Puritanism.
Seite 65 - Twenty thousand persons tossed to and fro, like the tumultuous waves of the sea in a storm, or swept down like the trees of the forest under the blast of the wild tornado, was a sight which mine own eyes witnessed, but which neither my pen nor tongue can describe. During the religious exercises within the encampment, all manner of wickedness was going on without. So deep and awful is man's depravity, that he will sport while the very fires of perdition are kindling around...
Seite 61 - Homeric epoch, — an organizing poetical mind, still preserving that freshuess of observation and vivacity of details which constitutes the charm of the ballad. Nothing is gained by studying the Iliad as a congeries of fragments once independent of each other : no portion of the poem can be shown to have ever been so, and the• supposition introduces difficulties greater than those which it removes. But it is not necessary to affirm that the whole poem...
Seite 33 - ... sepulchre, and crowned it with garlands, declaring how happy he esteemed him, in having while he lived so faithful a friend, and when he was dead, so famous a poet to proclaim his actions. While he was viewing the rest of the antiquities and curiosities of the place, being told he might see Paris's harp, if he pleased, he said, he thought it not worth looking on, but he should be glad to see that of Achilles, to which he used to sing the glories and great actions of brave men.
Seite 16 - And now let no man be offended at the Authors rude Verse, penned of purpose to keepe in memory the Names of such Worthies as Christ made strong for himselfe, in this unwonted worke of his.
Seite 101 - Acts and Laws, passed by the General Court or Assembly of his Majesties Province of New-Hampshire in New-England.
Seite 1 - No subject shall be held to answer for any crime or offence, until the same is fully and plainly, substantially and formally, described to him; or be compelled to accuse, or furnish evidence against himself.