Excerpts from the Book 'Endicott And The Red Cross':

... to resist royal injustice with the sword. The bigoted and haughty primate, Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, controlled the religious affairs of the ...
... aspect of the times when the folds of the English banner, with the Red Cross in its field, were flung out over a company of Puritans. Their leader, the ...
... of the times and manners of the Puritans, that we must endeavor to represent them in a sketch, though far less vividly than they were reflected ...
... would be life-long some, whose ears had been cropped, like those of puppy dogs others, whose cheeks had been branded with the initials of their ...
... so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress. Let not the reader argue, from any of these ...
... followers, and prepared to renew the martial toils of the day. Come, my stout hearts! quoth he, drawing his sword. Let us show these poor heathen ...
... in thankfulness, and then, holding back his gray beard with one hand, he scooped up his simple draught in the hollow of the other. What, ho! good Mr. ...
... much import for a ship arrived yesterday from England. Mr. Williams, the minister of Salem and of course known to all the spectators, had now reached ...
... abroad, lest the people be stirred up unto some outbreak, and thereby give the King and the Archbishop a handle against us. The Governor is a wise ...
... excitement, yet powerfully restraining it, wherefore did ye leave your native country? Wherefore, I say, have we left the green and fertile fields, ...
... shook his sword wrathfully at the culprit-an ominous gesture from a man like him. What hast thou to do with conscience, thou knave? cried he. I said ...
... Williams! answered Endicott, imperiously. My spirit is wiser than thine for the business now in hand. I tell ye, fellow-exiles, that Charles of England, ...
... have bought with our goods, which we have won with our swords, which we have cleared with our axes, which we have tilled with the sweat of our brows, which ...
... of triumph, the people gave their sanction to one of the boldest exploits which our history records. And forever honored be the name of Endicott! We ...
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... William Hathorne, who emigrated from England in 1630, was the first of Hawthorne's ancestors to arrive in the colonies. After arriving, William persecuted ...
... utopian community at Brook Farm in 1841 later that year, however, he left when he became dissatisfied with farming and the experiment. (His Brook ...
... writes: I am always so dazzled and bewildered with the richness, the depth, the... jewels of beauty in his productions that I am always looking forward ...
... to the politics of the spoils system. A Democrat, Hawthorne lost this job due to the change of administration in Washington after the presidential election ...
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