...on Plymouth Rock at the age of 38, Decemher, 22, 1820, nearly eighty years ago. He there said : "We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...with a wilderness and peopled by roving barbarians." Speaking of the pilgrims of the Mayflower, he said, "They came hither to a land from which they were...

...occasion, too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...with a wilderness, and peopled by roving barbarians. We are here, at the season of the year at which the event took place. The imagination irresistibly...

...occasion too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place which inspires and moves us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...England were first placed ; where Christianity and civilisation, and letters made their first lodgment, in a vast extent of country covered with a wilderness...