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��THE GRANITE MONTHLY.

��ernable, with a spirit disdaining the curb of reason, what a scourge ! what

��a curse !

��By doing nothing we learn to do evil.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

The greatest virtue oftenest lies in bodies of the middle size.

That religion can not be right, that a man is the v/orse for having.

Dry bread at home, is better than roast meat abroad.

Ingenuity, as well as religion, some- times suffers between two thieves. [)re- tenders and despisers.

He is most free who is bound by the laws ; he is most happy who abridges his pleasures ; and he is most magnanimous who fears his God.

The wealthy are too often imperti- nent and overbearing.

A child of a prodigal parent will

��necessarily have recourse to covetous- ness.

A mistaken vanity often puts us to- great trouble.

Forbid a fool a thing that he will do.

It's honorable to die for thy country.

St. Paul's injunction to children to obey their parents, is followed with an admonition to the latter, not to be bitter against them.

A gay coat doth not make a gentle- man, nor a gilded cover a good book..

Most courtships are little better than, playing at blind man's buff.

No sooner is Isaac marriageable,, than his prudent and affectionate father looks out a wife for him. A, fortune is not the question with Abra- ham.

Marriages are often said to be ap- pointed in heaven before they are contracted on earth.

��SKETCHES OE IVENTIVORT//, iV. H.—NO. i.

��}!V HON. J. K. SARGENT, LI.. D.

��The town of W'entworth was char- tered by Gov. Benning Wentworth in 1766. There were originally sixty grantees or proprietors, mostly residing in the towns of Kingston, East Kings- ton, Hawke (now Danville), and South Hampton, which originally in- cluded what is now Seabrook, and Salis- bury, Mass. The charter is in the usual form of the charters of those days. " In the name of George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith," &c. A tract of land six miles scjuare was granted, containing 23,040 acres, "out of which an allowance is to be made tor high- ways and unimprovable lands, by rocks, ponds, mountains and rivers, 1,040 acres." The land was to be divided into sixty-six equal shares, and was bounded on the north by Warren, east by Rumney, south by Dorchester, and west by Orford — and to be known

��as the town of W'entworth ; and its inhabitants were declared to be en- franchised with and entitled to all and every the privileges and immunities, which other towns within our province exercise and enjoy. Wlien the town should consist of fifty families resident therein, they were to have the liberty of holding two fairs therein annually, and that a market may be opened and kept oj)en one or more days in each week. Provision is made for the call- ing of the first meeting of the propri- etors, and the annual meetings there- after. " To have and to hold " said granted premises upon the following conditions : Every grantee shall plant and cultivate five acres of land within five years, for every fifty acres con- tained in his or their shares or propor- tions, in said township, on penalty of forfeiture, cS,:c. All white pine trees in said township, " fit for masting our Royal Navy," to be preserved and not

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