Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 284
o an immense value; herfleets riding triumphant on the ocean; the terror of herarms spreading to every quarter of the globe. Thecolonist found himself free and thought himself secure,he dwelt under his own vine and under his own fig-treeand had none to make him afraid. He knew, indeed,that by… … The Settlement of America 253 the highest pleasure; that thought supported him inall his toils. When the business of the day was past,he solaced himself with the contemplation, or perhapsentertained his listening family with the recital of somegreat, some glorious transaction which shines…
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