Customs and
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共 23 段- "As necessitie was a taskmaster over them, so they were forc
- The schoolmaster "promised and engaged to use his best endea
- The Judge begged her not to be so speedy in decision, and br
- Other matrimonial advertisements, those of recreant and diso
- All the early travellers speak of the lack of good servants
- "It is not convenient now to write the trouble and plague we
- The following list of varieties of chests is given by Dr. Ly
- As a table was in early days a board, so a tablecloth was a
- By the strict laws made to govern bakers and the number of b
- It is well to compare the orderly, decorous, well-protected
- When New England was colonized, the European emigrants were
- Hawthorne felt it also and said:
- "Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on
- Of them it may be said, as Froissart said of their ancestors
- During the seventeenth century and the first half of the eig
- There were a number of books for the Indians in the Indian t
- The handwriting in all these ancient books is very different
- Hawthorne's list of New England wigs was shorter: "The tie,
- In 1639 "immoderate great breeches, knots of ryban, broad sh
- This country doctor, like others of his profession at the sa
- "My black powder against ye plague, small-pox, purples, all
- Of all the different species of poetry now in use I find the
- "The slab has sunk; the head declined,