. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. time xvhen tile and re]iiitable cili/eii couldwhistle at the tail in his ]ilougli. xvith asmuch serenity as the cobbler over hislast, is fast to a close. Thepresent time marks a rexolution of day. but because our ancestors readon the first page of Holy Writ, that theevening and tile luorning were the , and when ibex saxv the last raysol the setting siin disappear behind thexvesteni the xxilb allits restraints was ended. The hoysmiglit resume. thou,gli soiiiexvhal
. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. time xvhen tile and re]iiitable cili/eii couldwhistle at the tail in his ]ilougli. xvith asmuch serenity as the cobbler over hislast, is fast to a close. Thepresent time marks a rexolution of day. but because our ancestors readon the first page of Holy Writ, that theevening and tile luorning were the , and when ibex saxv the last raysol the setting siin disappear behind thexvesteni the xxilb allits restraints was ended. The hoysmiglit resume. thou,gli soiiiexvhal quiet-I . the sports of the week. Tiiose ofolder growth were expected to in all the braverx of theirSundax attire xvherever their xoiilhfulafiectious called them; and they, bothxomig men and maidens, d lubllessblessed the nexv as a iiio-i suil-:ible place of resort for their tliex came from far and siniplx for books, but lo exchangefrieiidlx greetings, to discuss the affairs tillact:; .:L,jBiR/\.,. f^. ^?. BftJui ill rpftn Ikitr firvUy »ytt miv rrlt: r M SIX! II I and of manners of immense import tosociety, but xvhile others glorx in thisas a .great . in can not helj) dropping a tear tit theclose of the golden .age of our ances-tors, XX bile xxilb a jieiisixe | xverelied on the and xvith apjuehensiou anlicipale the future. Such the life iheii. enioymeiU of the increasinggood around Ibem, tempered In their everlireseiil belief in the stern iloctrines ofCalvin—lixed tate. free-will. fore-knowdedge absolute. I be meetings for the of booksxxcre held on the tirsl Sunday of eachmonth, not because the cmiueiUly re-ligious character of the library became of the State .and the Church, the healthol their tlu- labors of , ,ind ,ill the details of their ex ery-day life. It was a I
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