Before the Lexington, Massachusetts, Historical Society Tuesday, December 20, 1898 "In a word, many wise men thought it a time wherein those two miserable adjuncts, which Nerva was deified for uniting, imperium et libertas , were as well reconciled as is possible."— Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, B. 1. § 163. "I put my foot in the tracks of our forefathers, where I can neither wander nor stumble."— Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America. BOSTON DANA ESTES & COMPANY 210 SUMMER