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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Absence Century Cheerful Colonists England Everyday Gardens John Literary Man Much Named New New England Notion Pleasing Scant Self-Consciousness Should Style Tastes Traveller Were Which

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The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Around Build Built Colonists First Half Homes Lands Law Meadow Mile Must New Often Ordered Since Them Valleys Were Within

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It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Colonial Colonists Contemporary Definite Easy Estates Gain Houses Notion Reliable Source

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The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: American Both Colonists Course Everywhere Fat First Forests Found Greatest Houses Lighting Most Natural Natural Way North Plenty South Way Were Which

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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Ancient Boots Brutal Civilized Colonists Come Delicate Entirely Forgotten Good Heavy Highly India Nation Often Over Past Relations Remote Sensitive Though Trample Tribes Where Whose

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American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.

~Charles A. Beard

Topics: About Abstract Actual Affairs After American American Government Any Breach Colonists Continuity Did English Equality Experience Gained Generation Government Institutional Liberty Life Make Managing Originate Own Political Revolution Theories

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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: American Appealed Both Celebrated Colonists Common Common Sense Creation Critical Despised Eloquence Events French He His Independence Long Pamphlet Present Republic Sense States Thomas Through Time Toward Traveled United United States

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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Accounts Benefit Bother Colonists Deaths Did Even Historical Law Make Marriages Mostly Nor Own Posterity Preoccupied Records Required Significance Southern Themselves Up Were Write

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I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: Agony Always Ben Both British Carolina Claims Colonists Denied Descend Englishmen Families Franklin Give Give Me Government Had Helped Himself Insight Like Me Patriots Philadelphia Quakers Revolutionary Revolutionary War Separated Themselves Thought Until War Were Who Whose

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