Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Here's Franklin," confidentially remarked the old man, hitching his chair up closer, - "individuality, perception, lightning was his playground, you know; economy, - Poor Richard's Almanac's right there, you see. Here's the murderer of a whole family; destructiveness right in his head, - never had it examined, and so had to be hanged. That's a perfect woman's head, imaginary; don't make 'em that way nowadays, you know...
...traditions of virtue as any old burgh in Europe. In fact, we can conceive of no higher pleasure of the kind than tracing out the locality of Hawthorne's famous "Town Pump," Longfellow's "Wayside Inn," Copp's Hill or the Old Granary Burying-Ground, Church Green, Webster's, Franklin's, or Hancock's old mansions. The razing of Fort Hill; the loss of the famous Brattle Street Church, with its British cannon-ball buried in its face; of the Paddock elms; of that perfect monument of Colonial architecture, the Hancock House, have changed Boston much from the honest provincial...
Executive Committee, James C. Carter, Henry Stone, Nathaniel A. Prentiss, Franklin Bartlett, Francis R. Appleton...
Committee for the Annual Dinner, Thomas Kinnicutt, Nathaniel A. Prentiss, Henry W. Poor, Nathaniel S. Smith, Franklin Bartlett, Artemas H. Holmes...
ORATION . . . BY JOHN FRANKLIN SIMMONS, of Hanover...