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A year after the arrival at Plymouth Bradford was elected Governor of the Colony, and, with the exception of two short intervals, held this office until his death nearly forty years afterward. Bradford's "History of Plymouth" is a classic in New England historical literature the foundation-stone, in fact, of the history of New England.

Although Burns, in 1787, briefly described the place as a "lazy toun," the inhabitants were displaying much energy in carrying out improvements in their port.* In 1775 the foundation-stone of the new pier designed by Mr.

And yet at the back of his man's soul he knew that by that very forbearance his every natural impulse condemned, he had strengthened his position, he had laid the foundation-stone of a fabric that would endure against storm and tempest. The house that he would build would be an abiding-place no swiftly raised tent upon the sand.

He kept up his idea of going over the Academy question threshing it out once for all, as he expressed it; but my suggestion that we should provisionally resuscitate the extinct board did not meet with his approval. "Not till the whole business is settled. I shouldn't have the face Wait till I can go to them and say: 'We're laying the foundation-stone on such a day."

"Oh, that's nothing," retorted the bishop's daughter; "Papa lays a foundation-stone every week." The precocious child, even when thoroughly well-meaning, is a source of terror by virtue of its intense earnestness.

In modern Greece, when the foundation of a new building is being laid, it is the custom to kill a cock, a ram, or a lamb, and to let its blood flow on the foundation-stone, under which the animal is afterwards buried. The object of the sacrifice is to give strength and stability to the building.

The 'Mary Church affair' here referred to was the laying the foundation-stone of the Church, built or restored, it is hard to say which, on the lines of the former one, and preserving the old tower, at St. Mary Church, near Torquay. Though the death of the Rev. Gr.

Saturday, 9th July. The site of the foundation-stone was very difficult to work, from its depth in the rock; but being now nearly prepared, it formed a very agreeable kind of pastime at high-water for all hands to land the stone itself upon the rock. The landing-master's crew and artificers accordingly entered with great spirit into this operation.

The architecture in this thoroughfare certainly presents plenty of variety more variety perhaps than beauty. There are the new Assize Courts the foundation-stone of which was laid by the Queen in 1887; they are built of brick and terra-cotta, redundant with detailed ornament, some of it perhaps of a too florid character.

A son of the historian now represents a district of Berlin in the Reichstag. Two years before the historian's death an exchange of telegrams in Latin took place between him and the Emperor. The occasion was the Emperor's laying the foundation-stone of a museum on the plateau where the old Roman castle, known as the Saalburg, stands.

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