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Not who you're looking for? Others named New England: region of the northeasternmost United States · reputed Byzantine colony on the Black Sea · residential area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kin · unincorporated community in Georgia, United States
“The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.”
“The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their knees and then upon the aborigines.”
“He comes of the Brahmin caste of New England. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy referred to, and which many readers will at once acknowledge.”
“Every nation, like every individual, walks in a vain show—else it could not live with itself—but I never got over the wonder of a people who, having extirpated the aboriginals of their continent more completely than any modern race had ever done, honestly believed that they were a godly little New England community, setting examples to brutal mankind.”
“Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.”
“One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.”
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