 | 1886 - 588 pages
...the history of Andover the more we feel how thoroughly it is a characteristic New England town. If I wanted to give a foreigner some clear idea of what...institution a New England town really is, in its history and in its character, in its enterprise and its sobriety, in its godliness and its manliness, I should... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - 1894 - 560 pages
...the history of Andover the more we feel how thoroughly it is a characteristic New England town. If I wanted to give a foreigner some clear idea of what...could make him perfectly familiar with the past and the present of Andover. From the time when the first settlers came from Newtown, in 1634, and built... | |
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The more we look into the history of Andover the more we feel how thoroughly it is a characteristic New England town. If I wanted to give a foreigner some clear idea of what that excellent institution, a New England town, really is, in its history and... 