The Mayflower Town: An Address Delivered at the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Duxbury, Mass;, June 17, 1887 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Winsor, Justin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332155324 ISBN 13: 9781332155323

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from The Mayflower Town: An Address Delivered at the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Duxbury, Mass;, June 17, 1887 I pray you let the dissolving view of another scene than this come to your inner vision. Picture yourselves at the doorstone of Miles Standish in the declining hours of a day in June, two centuries and a half ago. Gaze attentively upon the knots of people looking out upon the placid waters of yonder bay, and turning their eyes upon a mellowing sky beyond the Kingston Hills. You can hardly mistake the master of the house. His three-and-fifty years have left some, if not heavy, marks upon a frame that in his younger days had borne the severities of campaigns in regular armies, and in his sterner manhood had endured the rigors of the wilderness. But you can see that his face still has the volatile lines which mark a nature quick in passion. His eye has still the alertness and his motions the rapidity of those earlier days when he fought in Flanders, and of the later ones when he braved the braggart Pecksnot in the cabin at Wessagusset, or quelled by his daring the revolt of Corbitant. We know by the inventory of his books that the "Commentaries of Caesar" was a household volume; and we may well conjecture how, with his children and Hobamok looking on, he could trace upon the sand, and place pebbles to mark, the marches and camps of the Roman Legions in Gaul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imp

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Excerpt from The Mayflower Town: An Address Delivered at the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Duxbury, Mass;, June 17, 1887

Lodging, in which he might dare to brave the winter, and had dignified his estate with a name associated with his ancestral line; for he and Standish were the only ones of the first comers whose family stock seems to have been above the yeoman class. There was no definition yet of the bounds of the proposed new town; and it was to surround if not to include Winslow's grant at Marsh field, and to stretch, as was determined some years later, to the North River. Much the same reason had lured.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1332155324
• ISBN 13: 9781332155323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40