Most of the staple industries of to-day, not omitting iron and textiles, have their beginnings in colonial times.
Compare the way immigrants come to-day with the way they came in colonial times.
Show the connection between religion and learning in colonial times.
One of the prettiest trinkets of colonial timesis the dainty nutmeg holder, of wrought silver or Battersea enamel, just large enough to hold a single nutmeg.
The tithing-man, that amusing but most bumptious public functionary of colonial times, was at first the official appointed to spy specially upon the ordinaries.
Flip was a dearly loved drink of colonial times, far more popular in America than in England, much different in concoction in America than in England, and much superior in America--a truly American drink.
Under this title I also place such tavern and home drinks of colonial times as were not deemed vastly intoxicating; though New England cider might well be ranged very close to New England rum in intoxicating powers.
John Bartram, who was the first botanist to describe the plants of the New World and who explored the whole country from the Great Lakes to Florida, was a Pennsylvania Quaker of colonial times, farmer born and bred.
There were many public offices in colonial times which we do not have to-day, for we do not need them.
Of the dress of infants of colonial times we can judge from the articles of clothing which have been preserved till this day.
I have seen several commonplace books, made by children of colonial times; pathetic memorials, in every case, of children who died in early youth.
As Fisher says in his Men, Women and Manners in Colonial Times: "At every opportunity they raised some question of religion and discussed it threadbare, and the more fine-spun and subtle it was the more it delighted them.
The early court records disclose the sad fact that husband-beating was painfully frequent in colonial times.
A legislature of two houses was accepted because such legislatures had been common in colonial times.
The legislature of New Hampshire had passed an act modifying a charter granted in colonial times to Dartmouth College.
This chapter is supplementary to Chapter IX on "Everyday Life in Colonial Times.
In colonial times he was the direct representative of the king, or of the colonial proprietor, and the people sought in every way to limit his powers.
In our own country in colonial times, no citizen was permitted to vote in the New England town meeting who did not belong to the Puritan church of the community.
A century ago, Governor Pownall, one of the most eminent constitutional jurists of colonial times, said of the common law, "In all the colonies the common law is received as the foundation and main body of their law.
Although our population was varied in colonial times, the great majority of the settlers were from the British Isles and northwestern Europe.
The proposition was not unknown even in colonial times, but the earlier state constitutions and statutes had almost invariably excluded women from the vote.
What was the extent of the suffrage in colonial times?
At least one death is known in America, in colonial times, on Long Island, from riding the wooden horse.
And I may say, in passing, that slander and mischief-making seemed to be even more rife among men than among women in colonial times.
There was one curious punishment in use in the army during our Civil War which, though not, of course, of colonial times, may well be mentioned since it was a revival of a very ancient punishment.
In colonial times, too, and for some decades into our national period, the warmest advocates of the establishment of schools were those who had in view the needs of the Church.
Latin grammar school of colonial times to the more democratic high school of to-day.
This difficulty was, however, not remedied in colonial times, but continued long after the formation of the Federal Union, and in fact until the close of the Seminole war, in 1845.
Supplies for school purposes were quite scarce in colonial times.
There were various ways in colonial times of calling the people to the religious services of Sunday morning.
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