Category: Humour
This is a very solemn service, when it is properly performed. When I was a youngster, Grossman was Sexton of Trinity Church, and Parker was Bishop. Never were two men better calculated to give the true effect to this service. The Bishop was a very tall, erect person, with a de...
This is a very solemn service, when it is properly performed. When I was a youngster, Grossman was Sexton of Trinity Church, and Parker was Bishop. Never were two men better cal...
2. v. 85:The _silicernium_ or _cæna funebris_ was a very different, and more solid affair. At first blush--to use a common and sensible expression--there seems no respectable keeping, be...
3. ii. 589, gives an extract from a law, for the special punishment of two ofthese unhappy people, Peter Pierson and Judah Brown--"That they shall, by the constable of Boston, be forthwith taken out of the prison, and stripped from the girdle upwards, by...
4. i. 204, "went through the streets of Salem, naked as she came into theOct. 13, 1657.--Benedict Arnold, William Baulston, Randall Howldon, Arthur Fenner, and William Feild, the Government of Rhode Island, addressed a letter, on the subject of this...