"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 house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine." Alice Morse Earle new england history 👍0 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
"In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools." Alice Morse Earle new england history 👍0 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
"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 new england history 👍0 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
"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... Alice Morse Earle new england gardens 👍0 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
"The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies." Alice Morse Earle 17th century 👍0 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
"From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life." Alice Morse Earle puritan life 👍0 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
"There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life... Alice Morse Earle colonial children 👍0 👎0 Share ×Share this Quote Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Copy Link Copy
