Word: paddocked
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...PADDOCK, Bishop of the Diocese, will make his regular visitation to the S. Paul's Society next Monday evening, at seven o'clock...
...writer seems to think that trees "from some forest primeval," if transplanted to the burying-ground to-morrow, would give the same pleasure to the citizens of Boston as the Paddock Elms did. I very much doubt it. Would an elm transplanted from Boston Common give as much pleasure to the people of Cambridge as the Washington Elm does? Suppose that Massachusetts were to be pulled down and sold for old bricks, would another aged brick building, if moved to its place, inspire us with the same interest and affection which we now feel towards that venerable pile...
...destruction of the Paddock elms is only a stepping-stone to the appropriation of the Burying-Ground, and so on until there is nothing left to seize. And yet this is against the wishes of the majority of the citizens of Boston. Why, then, is it permitted to be done? Because the intelligent men of the country are too much occupied with the promotion of their own ends to trouble themselves about the welfare of the city, state, or nation. They do not attend public meetings, they are wanting at the polls, they make no attempt to fill the public...