The Salem Belle: A Tale of 1692 |
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Page 89 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 170 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee.
Page 135 - And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Page 61 - Cum stridore, with a great noise, and the Elements melt with fervent heat, and the earth, and the workes that are therein, shall be burnt up...
Page 197 - CHAPTER wayward humors, or furious rage of a multitude. The truth, painful as it is, cannot be concealed. On no individual does the responsibility of the sad consummation of that excitement rest more heavily than on William Stoughton. Cotton Mather may have had more agency in its origin and progress; but the countenance it received from the court of justice gave vitality to the epidemic rage, and deprived innocence of its security, and terminated the cruel tragedy in blood.
Page 154 - God, my soul is now at liberty ; escaped, as a bird out of the snare of the fowler.
Page 20 - Pompey professed to be a thorough democrat, and insisted that all men were born free and equal...
Page 109 - but the more I think of it, the stronger is my conviction that it is all a fatal delusion, foolish, wonderful, and wicked.