Billerica, Volume 1

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1912

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Page 6 - Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by — They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish — so am I, Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? — Let me live in my house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.
Page 2 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 8 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 4 - ... instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won. In the long fight for righteousness the watchword for all of us is spend and be spent. It is of little matter whether any one man fails or succeeds; but the cause shall not fail, for it is the cause of mankind.
Page 3 - Captain, and you are yourself to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions as you shall from Time to Time receive from me or...
Page 11 - We will never bring disgrace to this, our city, by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks; we will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many; we will revere and obey the city's laws and do our best to incite a like respect...
Page 11 - We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many; we will revere and obey the city's laws, and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in those...
Page 2 - Hereof fail not, as you will answer your default under the pains and penalties in such cases made and provided. "To George O'Haley, to serve and return.
Page 2 - Esq :' Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England...
Page 3 - ... they began to hiss, which irritated the assembly to the greatest Degree and Confusion ensued. They, however, did not gain their End, which was apparently to break up the Meeting, for order was soon restored, and we proceeded regularly and finished. I am persuaded that were it not for the Danger of precipitating a Crisis, not a Man of them would have been spared.

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