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It had evidently been dropped there by some customer. "The address engraved on the paper was 318, Bancroft Road, Wolverhampton.
His speech consisted of only one sentence, "I have one bond with the rose, I blush." I owe many favours to Bancroft; the greatest perhaps that he allowed me to consult to my heart's content the papers of Samuel Adams, a priceless collection which he possessed.
Then Nature rests in the season of conception, while a man sows, his companion having prepared the ground. In his mural of Winter, Bancroft pictures the snowy days, the fuel piled against the cold, the chase of the deer, the spinning in the long evenings. The companion piece represents the festival side of the season, when men have time to play. The Seasons are complete.
He was seen in different parts of the field, but his chief exertions appear to have been expended upon the attempted fortification of Bunker's Hill, where he met the fugitives in the retreat, and conducted "such of them as would obey him," says Bancroft, to the night's encampment at Prospect Hill.
Miss Phipps, when I told you or gave you to understand that my cousin here, or his firm, Cabot, Bancroft and Cabot, bought that ah Development stock of yours, I deceived you; I told you a falsehood. They did not buy it.... I bought it, myself." He blurted out the last sentence, after a short but apparent mental struggle. Martha's chest heaved, but she said no word.
Samuel Bancroft Barlow, a practising physician of Greenville, Mass., commenced writing articles for the newspapers, advocating a Pacific railroad and outlining a plan for its construction.
Bancroft lived in the daily fear of receiving a still deeper punishment. One day, most disastrous intelligence came to the office in which he was employed. There had been a fierce gale along the whole coast, and the shipping had suffered severely. The number of wrecks, with the sacrifice of life, was appalling. Among the vessels lost, were ten insured in the office. Nothing was saved from then.
For example, Curtis, Hist. Const. ii. 553-554. Rives, Life of Madison, i. 536-537. Madison, Letters, etc. i. 80. Bancroft, Hist. Const. i. 162. Madison, Letters, etc. i. 264. Secret Jour. Cong. iv. 44-63. Rives, Life of Madison, ii. 122. Rives, Life of Madison, ii. 119-120. Jour. Va. House Del. 66-67. Madison, Letters, etc. i. 264. Rives, Life of Madison, ii. 238-239.
All these above named persons were attached to the clergy. There were others who, like A. Bronson Alcott, were teachers, and sometimes lecturers. There was Henry D. Thoreau, a charming writer who spent two years in a hut in Walden woods; and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the writer of many familiar romances; also George Bancroft, the historian, Dr.
I regret to say that Bancroft is among the offenders. Hildreth is an honorable exception.
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