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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
Babies
Baby
Could
Cradle
Descendant
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Many
Nothing
Old
Prettier
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Survived
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The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Beautiful
Beautiful Home
Brings
Changes
Cherished
Days
Domestic
Ended
Evidence
Family
History
Home
Hospitality
Light
Many
Much
Often
Private
Prosperity
Rich
Sad
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Tavern
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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 in this strange new world.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Amsterdam
Born
Boston
Children
Colonial
Crossed
Fathers
First
Infancy
Life
New
New World
Ocean
Pilgrims
Sad
Something
Strange
Those
Thought
Who
World
Years
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We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.
~ Alice Morse Earle
America
Being
Boxes
Chief
Claim
Dutch
Formal
Gardens
Other
Plants
Pots
Pretty
Set
So-Called
Very
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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 which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Absence
Century
Cheerful
Colonists
England
Everyday
Gardens
John
Literary
Man
Much
Named
New
New England
Notion
Pleasing
Scant
Self-Consciousness
Should
Style
Tastes
Traveller
Were
Which
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When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Almost
American
Difficulties
Finding
First
Landed
Making
Must
Seemed
Settlers
Shelter
Shores
Unbearable
Well
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Alice Morse Earle
Profession
Historian
BirthDate
27 April, 1851
DeathDate
16 February, 1911
Country
United States
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