16 Alice Morse Earle Quotes for You to Enjoy

Alice Morse Earle

American Historian

Born: Apr 27, 1851

Died: Feb 16, 1911

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Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness. Alice Morse Earle

Increase Other Out Architect Supervision Intelligent Than Being Laid Whim Then Should Landscape Reason Even Gardens

By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story. Alice Morse Earle

Sometimes First Year Further Out Bay Log Plymouth More Colonies Foot Over Attic Houses Frequently Built Still Were Replaced Wooden Stories Story Chimney Which Extending Second Two

The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house. Alice Morse Earle

Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life. Alice Morse Earle

Life You Eyes Lie Walls Beauty Strangers Dignified Houses Passing Cherished Enclosed Salem Gracious Front Behind Public View Full Forward Serene Reserved Gardens Present Treasures

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life. Alice Morse Earle

Life Health Science Christian Medicine Astrology Asunder Some Crops Only Had Occult Still Governed His Trusting Chiefly Influences Which Century Cut Planetary Wholly Believed

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

Family Bible Suffering Old Distress Hopes Records Read Many

Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen. Alice Morse Earle

Few Colored New New England Houses Within Without Were Any Lists Either England Workmen Painted Painters Appear Early

The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests. Alice Morse Earle

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

Sad Beautiful Home Family History Light Prosperity Rich Changes Evidence Hospitality Study Beautiful Home Days Cherished Private Domestic Ended Often Tavern Much Many Brings

In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools. Alice Morse Earle

Simple Made Long Bench Uncomfortable New Like New England Narrow Were Legs Which Placed England Rough Seats Early

In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried. Alice Morse Earle

It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail. Alice Morse Earle

Service Game Man Long Country Corn Evident System Harvesting Reliable Must Would Had Fail Indoors Another Least Fish Labor Any Expenditure Where Fuel Plainly Land Cutting Asking Planting Serve

The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit. Alice Morse Earle

Women Too Unknown Plentiful Though Colonial Records Habit Shape Annoying Learn Scold Were America Irritating Far English Bridle

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