... musket or wolf-hook. In 1723 wolves were so abundant in Ipswich that parents would not suffer their children to go to and from church and school without ...
... of disorder that strangers wondered at it. In the midst of the carousal the master of the pinnace called the boatswain Brother Loggerheads. This ...
... paper, to the girl whom he had once assailed and bombarded with his annoying paper bullets. Through the pillared top-rail a restless child in olden ...
... the comite can pul it down.. The fashion of seating the boys in pews by themselves was slow of abolishment in many of the churches. In Windsor, Connecticut, ...
... occupied two or three hours were customary enough. One old Scotch clergyman in Vermont, in the early years of this century, bitterly and fiercely resented ...
... thus early showing true Puritan fortitude and also his noble resolves and hopes for their future. On this especially cold day when a baby was ...
... of unnecessary Sabbath cooking even in the minds of the most straight-laced descendants of the Puritans. When stoves were placed and used in the New ...
... church was the direct and lineal ancestor of the sanctimonious button-giver of nieenth-century country churches. In Revolutionary times, after ...
... that doo upon me look a scoff at me doe make they with the lip do make-a-mow the head they scornful-shake,. Ainsworth thus explains: Make-a-mow, ...
... 1758 a revised edition of the much-published book, and it was adopted by his church, the Old South, of Boston, the week previous to his death. It was ...
... the selfe same thinges expresse.. The fourth,-. In them the lorde made for the sunne a place of great renoune Who like a bridegrome rady-trimed ...
... for me to lay: They spie my pathes, and snares have layd to take my life away. 7. Shall they thus scape on mischief set, thou God on them wilt frowne: ...
... until after the Revolution, are too well known and are still too frequently seen to need more than mention. Within the last century a flood of new books ...
... offence to the older Puritans, who wished to drawl out all the notes of uniform length and some persons thought that marking and accenting the measure ...
... & by boystrous words indeferd to fritten men to accomplish his end. & he abusing me to my face, dru upon him with intent to corb his insolent & dastardli ...
... of one small dip candle only on long winter Saturdays it must have been gloomy and tedious indeed. Small wonder that one minister wrote back to ...
... wonder is, when the ministers had the best places at every table, at every feast, at every merry-making in New England, that stories of their roistering ...
... fears, and thinks the words from his diary may be profitable to some discouraged minds. Profitable. Ah, no far from it. The overwhelming blackness ...
... thing that they judge would be very commendable and beneficiall to the townes where God's providence shall cast any whales, if they should agree to set ...
... but lamented late in life that the lust for wigs is become insuperable. He thought the horrors in King Philip's War were a direct punishment ...