The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair: Or, True Stories from New England History, 1620-1803Houghton, Mifflin, 1896 - 226 páginas |
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The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair: Or, True Stories from New England ... Nathaniel Hawthorne Visualização integral - 1896 |
The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair: And, Biographical Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne Visualização de excertos - 1900 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Acadians afterwards America answered Grandfather army asked Charley auditors began Boston Boston massacre British Captain Phips CHAPTER chief justice Clara colonies continued Grandfather Cotton Mather cried Charley dear death Eliot England English eyes famous father felt forefathers friends Governor Burnet governor of Massachusetts Grand Grandfather's chair hands Hawthorne Hawthorne's hear heard heart hundred Hutchinson Indians inhabitants inquired King George King Street king's Lady Arbella Laurence Liberty Tree likewise linen lion's head little Alice lived Longfellow's looked Louisburg Master Cheever minister NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE never oaken officers old chair old French Old North Church Paper perhaps poor Province House Puritans replied Grandfather Salem Samuel Adams seemed shillings ship Shirley shout silver Sir Francis Bernard Sir William Phips soldiers Sophia Peabody stood story suppose talk tell thought told took town troops venerable chair vessels Whittier's whole young
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Página vi - Androscoggin, or shooting pigeons and gray squirrels in the woods, or bat-fowling in the summer twilight, or catching trouts in that shadowy little stream which, I suppose, is still wandering riverward through the forest, though you and I will never cast a line in it again — two idle lads, in short (as we need not fear to acknowledge now), doing a hundred things that the faculty never heard of, or else it had been the worse for us — still it was your prognostic of your friend's destiny that he...
Página 29 - The magistrates soon began to suspect that the mint-master would have the best of the bargain. They offered him a large sum of money, if he would but give up that twentieth shilling, which he was continually dropping into his own pocket. But Captain Hull declared himself perfectly satisfied with the shilling. And well he might be; for so diligently did he labor, that, in a few years, his pockets, his money bags, and his strong box, were overflowing with pine-tree shillings.
Página ix - If ever I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here...
Página xxi - How beautiful it was, that one bright day In the long week of rain ! Though all its splendor could not chase away The omnipresent pain. The lovely town was white with appleblooms, And the great elms o'erhead Dark shadows wove on their aerial looms, Shot through with golden thread.
Página 29 - Sewall fall in love. As he was a young man of good character, industrious in his business, and a member of the church, the mintmaster very readily gave his consent. "Yes — you may take her...
Página 134 - I am sensible must give you a great deal of trouble, as easy as his Majesty's service will admit ; and hope that, in whatever part of the world you may fall, you may be faithful subjects, a peaceful and happy people.
Página 132 - At a consultation, held between Colonel Winslow and Captain Murray, it was agreed that a proclamation should be issued at the different settlements, requiring the attendance of the people, at the respective posts on the same day ; which proclamation should be so ambiguous in its nature, that the object for which they were to assemble could not be discerned ; and so peremptory in its terms, as to Vensure implicit obedience.
Página 30 - Yes, you may take her," said he, in his rough way, " and you '11 find her a heavy burden enough! " On the wedding day, we may suppose that honest John Hull dressed himself in a plum-colored coat, all the buttons of which were made of pine-tree shillings. The buttons of his waistcoat were sixpences; and the knees of his small-clothes were buttoned with silver threepences. Thus attired, he sat with great dignity in Grandfather's chair; and, being a portly old gentleman, he completely filled it from...
Página 30 - Thus attired, he sat with great dignity in Grandfather's chair ; and, being a portly old gentleman, he completely filled it from elbow to elbow. On the opposite side of the room, between her bridemaids, sat Miss Betsey. She was blushing with all her might, and looked like a full-blown peony, or a great red apple. There, too, was the bridegroom, dressed in a fine purple coat and gold-lace waistcoat, with as much other finery as the Puritan laws and customs would allow him to put on. His hair was cropped...
Página 56 - Phipps solicited the king to let him have another vessel and send him back again to the West Indies. But King James, who had probably expected that the Rose Algier would return laden with gold, refused to have anything more to do with the affair.