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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: before he was of age. Mr. Austin was of the Hopkinto- nian school, and preached of original sin, and there being infants in hell not a span long. I heard him once, and did not grudge him his faith. Worcester was then the largest inland town in the United States, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, only excepted, and in point of good society was unsurpassed by any. There were the Paines, the Chandlers, the Waldos, the Lincolns, the Aliens, Thomas, Salisbury, Stanton, Flagg, Nazro, and a number of others; forming an aggregate of as refined, polished, and intellectual society, as America could produce; living in a style of elegance surpassed but by very few in Boston, or elsewhere. In those days, instead of the jams, routs, and soirees of later date, ten or a dozen ladies had an understanding together upon the subject, and sent word to Mrs. Such-a-one, that they would take tea with her that afternoon if she was not otherways engaged. The gentlemen followed before sundown, and all returned home before candle-light. The gentlemen, a dozen or more of them, formed a fish club, and dined together on Saturdays, alternately at each other's houses; at those dinners there were literally the feast of reason and the flow of soul, as I had an opportunity of witnessing, some years after, on accompanying my kinsman to one of them, to which every member had a right to bring a guest. At the period I am speaking of, Worcester town and county, both abounded in distinguished men: among them Artemas Ward, who was a rival to Washington for commander in chief of the army of the Revolution, and was appointed second in command, (see Reminiscences of Washington.) At this time he was Chief Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. The bar could boast a good portion of talent; among the most distinguished were Lev...
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