Collections of the Maine Historical Society, 第 4 巻Heritage Books, 1995 - 433 ページ Included within are a paper on the early settlements on Sandy River; a letter from General Washington to General Knox with remarks on American manufactures; two articles on the language of the Abnaquies or eastern Indians; the full text of three Indian treaties, dated 1735, 1749, and 1752; an early essay on Kittery written in 1751; an article on the ancient settlement of Sheepscott; a memoir of Rev. Paul Coffin written by his grandson Cyrus Woodman and the full text of eight of his journals, which document his extensive travels throughout New England in the late 1700's. |
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22 ページ - Or seeks the den where snow-tracks mark the way, And drags the struggling savage into day. At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down the monarch of a shed ; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze...
21 ページ - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.