The Century book of famous Americans - the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes (1896) (14750928184)

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Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Historic buildings -- United States United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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prophecy. What was it ? inquired Christine. As nearly as I can recall it, said Uncle Tom, John Adams wrote: This second of July, i 776, will be the most memorable epoch in the historyof America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeedinggenerations as the great Anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemo-rated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God.It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports,guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of the continent to theother from this time forward, forevermore ! As the children applauded the sentiment, Uncle Tom added slyly, nothing about fire-crackers in all that, Jack. But Jack replied: Well, all the rest of it has come true. I guess wecan squeeze in the fire-crackers between the guns and the bells, cant we ? And he gave a nod of satisfaction as the memories of all his Fourth of Julyfun in summers past flashed through his mind. IN THE HOME OF TWO PRESIDENTS
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RINGING IN THE FOURTH. They had left the birthplace houses behind and were climbing PennsHill, from which little eight-year old John Ouincy Adams and his motherwatched the smoke of Bunker Hill fight, on a certain famous seventeenthof June, and a year later watched the British fleeing from Boston. Then Uncle Tom said: That mother was a remarkable woman, too. You girls must some day THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS get acquainted with Abigail Adams, the clever wife of John. But letme tell you, boys, John Adams was something of a prophet. When hewas but a young fellow, the French and Indian war was being fought inAmerica. Its purpose was, you know, to drive the French from Canada andmake this continent English. That was the war that brought GeorgeWashington to the front. Well, in the very year of Braddocks defeatyoung John Adams declared that, if the English soldiers and colonistscould only succeed in driving out the French, the colonists would increaseuntil, in another century, they