Merry-mount: A Romance of the Massachusetts Colony, Volumes 1-2James Munroe, 1849 |
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Page 73 - A solitary figure sat upon the summit of Shawmut. He was a man of about thirty years of age, somewhat above the middle height, slender in form, with a pale, thoughtful face. He wore a confused. dark-colored. half canonical dress, with a
Page 73 - of nature, and had reared a pure and solitary altar in the wilderness. He had dwelt in this solitude for three or four years, and had found in the contemplation of nature, in the liberty of conscience, in solitary study and self-communing, a solace for the ills he had suffered, and a recompense for the world he had turned
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Page 75 - once, to shelter the myriads of the human race? " The hermit arose, slowly collected a few simples which he had culled from the wilderness, a few roots of early spring flowers which he destined for his garden, and stored them in his wallet,