Best Alice Morse Earle Quotes
- In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than… Adult
- It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting… Afield
- It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the… Colonial
- The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save… Any
- One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before… Any