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"BUNKER-HILL 1775. GLORY TO THE HEROES THAT FOUGHT!" ISRAEL POTTER His Fifty Years of Exile By Herman Melville 1855 DEDICATION TO HIS HIGHNESS THE Bunker-Hill Monument Biography, in it…
The traveller who at the present day is content to travel in the good old Asiatic style, neither rushed along by a locomotive, nor dragged by a stage-coach; who is willing to enjoy hospitalities at f…
Imagination will easily picture the rural day of the youth of Israel. Let us pass on to a less immature period. It appears that he began his wanderings very early; moreover, that ere, on just princi…
Left to idle lamentations, Israel might now have planted deep furrows in his brow. But stifling his pain, he chose rather to plough, than be ploughed. Farming weans man from his sorrows. That tranqui…
At nightfall, on the third day, Israel had arrived within sixteen miles of the capital. Once more he sought refuge in a barn. This time he found some hay, and flinging himself down procured a tolerab…
Harassed day and night, hunted from food and sleep, driven from hole to hole like a fox in the woods, with no chance to earn an hour's wages, he was at last advised by one whose sincerity he cou…
CHANNEL. At this period, though made the victims indeed of British oppression, yet the colonies were not totally without friends in Britain. It was but natural that when Parliament itself held patri…
Following the directions given him at the place where the diligence stopped, Israel was crossing the Pont Neuf, to find Doctor Franklin, when he was suddenly called to by a man standing on one side o…
The first, both in point of time and merit, of American envoys was famous not less for the pastoral simplicity of his manners than for the politic grace of his mind. Viewed from a certain point, ther…
Closing the door upon himself, Israel advanced to the middle of the chamber, and looked curiously round him. A dark tessellated floor, but without a rug; two mahogany chairs, with embroidered seats,…
