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Стр. 158 - As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
Стр. 166 - To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Стр. 6 - My train are men of choice and rarest parts, That all particulars of duty know, And in the most exact regard support The worships of their name.
Стр. ix - ... the reputation of a brave and accomplished officer. At the conclusion of peace he immediately left the service. Gen. Stark ever retained his residence at Manchester, but Caleb, owner of vast estates by inheritance in Dunbarton, relics of the Stark and Page patrimonies, became a citizen of that town. In 1784, in a very pleasant spot, in the midst of his estate, and facing the broad highway leading from Dunbarton to Weare, he began the erection of a mansion worthy of the style of the great landholder...
Стр. 166 - Retrospective laws are highly injurious, oppressive, and unjust No such laws, therefore, should be made, either for the decision of civil causes, or the punishment of offences. 24. A well regulated militia is the proper, natural, and sure defence of a State.
Стр. 166 - ... shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia by the captain or commanding officer of the company, within whose bounds such citizen shall reside, and that within twelve months after the passing of this act.
Стр. 90 - To her my thoughts will fondly turn ; For her the warmest hopes expand, For her the heart with fears will yearn. Oh, may she keep her eye, like thee, Proud eagle of the rocky wild...
Стр. x - Harvard graduate, and writer of repute, being the author of a valuable memoir of his father and grandfather. He collected, even more than they had done, family relics of interest.
Стр. 116 - Among the many lakes in New Hampshire, there is one of extreme beauty, — a broad, shadowy water, some nine miles in length, with steep, thickly wooded banks, and here and there, as if moored on its calm surface, an island fit for the Bower of Bliss. At one spot along its shore was, and still is, an old country-house, formerly used as a hotel, but whose...
Стр. 2 - ... representatives of the state of New Hampshire. While in the chair, the Hon. John Bell, the father of Hon. Charles H. Bell, ExGovernor of New Hampshire, was inaugurated. In the legislature at that time, were Hon. Ezekiel Webster, the Hon. BM Farley, the Hon. Joseph Bell, the Hon. P. Noyes, and other noted men from different parts of the state. From the year 1825 to the year 1840 inclusive, Gen Wilson represented Keene in the state legislature, excepting the years 1833, 1838, and 1839. In the last...

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