The Granite Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, History and State Progress, Band 59

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Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock
Granite Monthly Company, 1927
Contains articles on the White Mountains and a map.
 

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Seite 22 - There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruined battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Seite 66 - I have three thousand dollars in hard money ; I will pledge my plate for three thousand more ; I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall be sold for the most it will bring. These are at tl.e service of the state. If we succeed in defending our fire-sides and homes, I may be remunerated ; if we do not, the property will be of no value to me.
Seite 7 - ... leaders, with 80 per cent of the families signing the pledges voluntarily and in the work accomplished by the Hotel and Restaurant Committee, the state was rated among the first five in the country. Other successful achievements were the small gardens throughout the state, the work of the school boys with a pro•duction in 1917 and 1918 of crops to the value of about $150,000, the Canning, the Potato and the Corn Meal Campaigns. Two great sources of satisfaction were the sending by Mr. Hoover...
Seite 72 - TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. — Stolen from me, the subscriber, in the time of action, the sixteenth of August last, a Brown Mare, five years old, had a star in her forehead. Also a doe-skin seated saddle, blue housing trimmed with white, and a curbed bridle. It is earnestly requested of all committees of safety, and others in authority, to exert themselves to recover...
Seite 117 - Hee can make the water burne, the rocks move, the trees dance, metamorphise himself into a flaming man. Hee will do more ; for in winter, when there are no green leaves to be got, he will burne an old one to ashes, and putting those into the water, produce a new green leaf...
Seite 88 - ... then, was swarming with fish of various kinds, and which those brave fishermen caught in large quantities and carried back to their homes on the British Isles. So much for the beginning of history. I am not going to give a history of the settlements on the river, but a description of the river itself. IN MEMORY OF THE CONTINENTAL SLOOP OF WAR RANGER LAUNCHED FROM THIS ISLAND MAY 10, 1777.
Seite 26 - ... completing the regiments in the pay of this province with the utmost speed, General Webb having written to the other governments to complete theirs, as the troops under his command were very much lessened. This was a measure apparently necessary at that time ; but as his Excellency the right Honourable the Earl of Loudon, commander in chief of his Majesty's forces in North America, is arrived here with a body of troops, the necessity of this measure ceases.
Seite 72 - ... that sum. How scandalous, how disgraceful and ignominious must it appear to all friendly and generous souls, to have such sly, artful, designing villains enter into the field of action in order to pillage, pilfer, and plunder from their brethren when engaged in battle!
Seite 90 - I can have no cause of complaint. Delicacy would not permit my more early Appearance. I wished to give you time to consider seriously whether your suspension can be in any respect owing to me? — You must be convinced that it was not when you recollect that I was — appointed to command a far better ship than the Ranger; — Besides I believe you think me incapable of Baseness You will have an Opportunity of disproving whatever may have been said to your disadvantage; and the charges against you,...
Seite 58 - January 13 (31), 1863, and was on this occasion under the fire of the rebel batteries in Charleston harbor; commanding ironclad 'Canonicus,' NAB Squadron, 1864-5; in the 'Canonicus' participated in the engagement with Hewlett's Battery and the iron-clads on James River, June 21...

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