"Vermont" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Canada by Arnold in 1775, with the full approval of the continental congress, soon after the taking of Crown Point and Ticonderoga by the "Green Mountain boys" of Vermont, was a most popular movement which, it was hoped generally, would end in the easy conquest of a province, occupied by an alien people, and likely to be a menace in the future to the country south of the St. Lawrence. ...
— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot
... Bankside was not a Jew; though his last name suggested and his first seemed to prove it; also his proficiency in the Old Testament gave color to the idea. No, he came from Vermont; of generations of unbroken New England and old English Puritan ancestry, where the Solomons and Isaacs and Zedekiahs were only mitigated by the Standfasts and Praise-the-Lords. Pious, persistent pigheaded folk were ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... the situation. He persuaded Congress to assume the whole obligation of the national government and of the states. Washington selected the site of the capitol on the banks of the Potomac. But the government convened at Philadelphia for ten years. Vermont and Kentucky were admitted as ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee
... Lebanon, and the new Vermont Springs; perhaps Mrs. Argenter would go to some of them in July. Miss Kirkbright told Sylvie of a dear little place she had found last year, in the edge of the White Mountain country; "among the great rolling ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... Delaware, Maryland, Maine), Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, South Carolina, Georgia, New Jersey, ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
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