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... began rapidly to approach . In the preliminaries of that great struggle , the towns of New England stood prominent . And it is here that their peculiar aptitude and strength for purposes of mutual counsel , co - operation , and support ...
... began rapidly to approach . In the preliminaries of that great struggle , the towns of New England stood prominent . And it is here that their peculiar aptitude and strength for purposes of mutual counsel , co - operation , and support ...
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... began , there the first martyrs in the war of the Revolution stood and received the deadly shot . There the fact became revealed that the American people were actually at war . It was at the corner of the Bedford road , in Lexington ...
... began , there the first martyrs in the war of the Revolution stood and received the deadly shot . There the fact became revealed that the American people were actually at war . It was at the corner of the Bedford road , in Lexington ...
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... began to pause . A little anecdote may serve to illustrate this . An old sage of Billerica , who , however , lived just on the border and had many connections with Bedford , and no doubt spoke its sentiments , being away from his home ...
... began to pause . A little anecdote may serve to illustrate this . An old sage of Billerica , who , however , lived just on the border and had many connections with Bedford , and no doubt spoke its sentiments , being away from his home ...
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... began to be carried to an extreme . Many among us began to fancy that there was to be no more fight- ing ; but the time for that was not yet . In our great and terrible civil war , when fratricidal hands were raised for the destruction ...
... began to be carried to an extreme . Many among us began to fancy that there was to be no more fight- ing ; but the time for that was not yet . In our great and terrible civil war , when fratricidal hands were raised for the destruction ...
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... began , and punctually at the appointed moment we left the school for the meeting - house . Each class walked in the order of its number , with its teacher at its head , and at the head of the whole column was the superintendent ...
... began , and punctually at the appointed moment we left the school for the meeting - house . Each class walked in the order of its number , with its teacher at its head , and at the head of the whole column was the superintendent ...
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A. E. BROWN A. P. SAMPSON appointed assembled Bacon beautiful Bedford Town Billerica Boston boys British brother called Capt Chairman church citizens committee Committee of Correspondence Concord fight Concord River E. G. LOOMIS fathers governor Grindall Reynolds HENRY WOOD Hoar honor hundred inhabitants interest invited Jeremiah Fitch Job Lane John Reed John Winthrop JONATHAN F Jonathan Wilson JOSIAH ladies land laughter and applause Lexington LOVEJOY M. B. WEBBER marched Massachusetts Maxwell meeting-house memory Merriam's Corner Middlesex County minister ministry minute-men Miss morning neighboring o'clock occasion orator passed pastor Penniman petition petitioners prayer Prescott's President Ralph Waldo Emerson record responsibility RICE road Sabbath Samuel says school-house schools SESQUI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION soldiers Stearns tavern Thomas Dudley tion toast took town meeting town of Bedford town of Concord town voted township University of Nashville whole young
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Page 65 - He bids us make his glories known, His works of power and grace; And we'll convey his wonders down Through every rising race. 3 Our lips shall tell them to our sons, And they again to theirs, That generations yet unborn May teach them to their heirs. 4 Thus shall they learn in God alone Their hope securely stands, That they may ne'er forget his works, But practise his commands.
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