Visit to Grand-papa: Or, A Week at NewportTaylor and Dodd, 1840 - 213 páginas |
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added affectionate amusing appeared aunt Katie Barton beach beautiful Bishop Berkeley boats Boston breakfast British brother called Captain Chesnut church Colonel Hardy commanded Congregational church Count D'Estaing Courcy cried Edward cried little Emma daughter dear dinner drams Easton's Easton's Beach elegant Ellen English exclaimed father fatigued fleet Fort Adams Fort Greene Francis Frank Thornton French friends garden Gaspee gentleman grand-father grand-papa Greene Guthrie hand harbor heard hill honor Indian Island Kinsale ladies land late laughing look lover's leap mamma Miss Katie Miss Katie's Miss Thornton morning mother Narragansett never Newport observed once party passed Point Judith poor professorship Quaker recollect Redwood rejoined replied Edward replied Frank resided returned Rhode Rhode-Island Robert Pigot rocks Sabbath Sachem ship smile story tell thing Thorn tion Tonomy town troops turned vessel walk Wampum William Coddington Wolcott yonder
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Página 130 - Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates ; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Página 208 - Skirmishing continued between the advanced parties until near ten o'clock, when the enemy's two ships of war and some small armed vessels, having gained our right flank and began a fire, the enemy bent their whole force that way, and endeavored to turn our right, under cover of the ship's fire, and to take the advanced redoubt on the right. They were...
Página 149 - twas not long 'fore it fell out, That William Dudingston, so stout, Commander of the Gaspee tender, Which he has reason to remember, Because, as people do assert, He almost had his just desert; Here, on the tenth day of last June, Betwixt the hours of twelve and one, Did chase the sloop, called the Hannah, Of whom, one Lindsay, was commander.
Página 206 - D'Estaing in any event to leave his land forces. All the general officers, excepting Lafayette, joined in signing and sending a protest against the departure of the fleet to Boston, as derogatory to the honor of France, contrary to the intention of his most Christian Majesty and the interest of his nation, destructive of the welfare of the United States, and highly injurious to the alliance formed between the two nations.
Página 199 - The following notice of this nobleman is taken from the Newport Mercury 1832 :— " On the first of February last, died at Kinsale, the Right Hon. Thomas De Courcy, Lord Kinsale, Baron De Courcy and Ringrone. His Lordship was the Premier Baron of Ireland, and enjoyed the hereditary privilege of wearing his hat in the royal presence, granted to John De Courcy, Earl of Ulster, by King John, and lately exercised by Lord John De Courcy, at a Court held in Dublin Castle by George Fourth, in 1321.
Página 204 - Tonnant of eighty guns, with only her mainmast standing, and attacked her with spirit, but night put an end to the engagement. Six sail of the French squadron came up in the night, which saved the disabled ships from any further attack.
Página 44 - The Trustees are thirtysix in number of whom twenty-two must be Baptists, five of the denomination of Friends, five Episcopalians and four Congregationalists. The same proportions of the different denominations is to endure perpetually.
Página 210 - ... the camp. At the same time, the heavy baggage and stores were fallin' back, and carried over the bay. At dark, the tents were struck, the light baggage and the troops passed down, and by twelve o'clock, the whole army had crossed. We slipped away as quietly as a mouse through a hole in the trap. Lafayette arrived from Boston just as the last part of the army was preparin
Página 206 - ... derogatory to the honor of France, contrary to the intentions of His Most Christian Majesty and the interest of his nation, and destructive in the highest degree to the welfare of the "United States of America, and highly injurious to the alliance formed between the two nations...
Página 54 - verbatim from Dr. Morse' as my grandfather said this morning, there is the State House, the form, situation and architecture of which, give it a pleasing appearance. It stands sufficiently elevated, and a long wharf and paved parade lead up to it from the harbor — so far from the good doctor," said Frank, laughing, " and the rest I must manage for myself.