Category: History - American
It was the winter of 18--, between fifty and sixty years ago. Certainly the winters of New England began earlier and were more severe than they have seemed at a later period. After the fervid heat of summer has become subdued by the progressive changes of the season, no atmosp...
In a note at the end of Chapter V. of "Waverley," Sir Walter Scott remarks:--"These introductory chapters have been a good deal censured as tedious and unnecessary. Yet there ar...
1. Chapter 1It was the winter of 18--, between fifty and sixty years ago. Certainly the winters of New England began earlier and were more severe than they have seemed at a later period. Af...
2. Chapter 2I should scarcely deem it expedient to enter at much detail into the eccentricities of our good townspeople, though it seems to me that in our own street I could recall enough t...
6. Chapter 6An aged friend, years ago deceased, who had seen much of the world, once observed to me, that he had never seen a more "scrupulous people," to use his expression, than our Presb...
5. Chapter 5I know there are those who will kindly regard these reminiscences of things, trifling, it may be, in themselves, but affording a glimpse of manners perhaps already forgotten by...
4. Chapter 4A term of the Court of Common Pleas was always held in the town in the month of September, and "court week" was a regular time of holiday for the pupils of the higher schools. S...
7. Chapter 7I trust it will not be thought inappropriate to the allusion already made to our reading circles, if I here insert a _jeu d'esprit_, the production of one of the members, indica...
3. Chapter 3In maritime towns, at a season of the year when there is no inducement for them to wander into the fields, boys who have nothing else to do, on play-days, are very apt to lounge...