Word: prescotts
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...Prescott was there, and Putnam too, and so was Grandsir P., And Grandsir was a spunky man as any of the three. The redcoats, -that's the Englishmen, -observing what was done...
...came the redcoats. Prescott says, "Don't fire until...
...flashing pages of Charles Reade. They seek only the pleasures of literature, and slight observation will convince us that they delight in these only when easily obtained. Where grow the more sober plants of history and biography their fancy seldom leads them. The rich stores of Macaulay and Prescott lie too deep for their shallow taste. The sole care of these literary butterflies is to draw pleasure from the writings of other; that they never add the smallest morsel to the food of the reading world grieves them not in the least; nor do they mourn that they have planted...
...Walker graduated with great distinction in the class of 1814, at the age of twenty. Many of his classmates attained great eminence in after life, especially Benjamin A. Gould, Master for many years of the Boston Latin School, Rev. Drs. Greenwood and Lawson, Judge Pliny Merrick, and, above all, Prescott, the historian. Dr. Walker was uniformly on terms of great intimacy and affection with his classmates, and eight of them met at his house on the sixtieth anniversary of his graduation...