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... thought appropriate by the Society . On a humble tablet in the graveyard beneath our windows , at the top of which is inscribed , " John Winthrop , Governor of Massachusetts , died 1649 , " may also be read the inscrip- tion , " Ann ...
... thought appropriate by the Society . On a humble tablet in the graveyard beneath our windows , at the top of which is inscribed , " John Winthrop , Governor of Massachusetts , died 1649 , " may also be read the inscrip- tion , " Ann ...
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... thought of the present hour ; while at the same time the things , the persons , the readings of times long passed by , have remained , like the fern- prints and foot - tracks in ancient rocks , indelibly impressed on his re- membrance ...
... thought of the present hour ; while at the same time the things , the persons , the readings of times long passed by , have remained , like the fern- prints and foot - tracks in ancient rocks , indelibly impressed on his re- membrance ...
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... thoughts and their capacity for thought , by showing us the very language they used , make us better acquainted with them than he who only tells us what they have done and suffered ? And I venture to say that no three volumes of civil ...
... thoughts and their capacity for thought , by showing us the very language they used , make us better acquainted with them than he who only tells us what they have done and suffered ? And I venture to say that no three volumes of civil ...
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... thought that the white man had come to throw him into the convulsions of war , to lay waste his dominions , and to disturb his peaceful repose . In the bosom of a country once his , commenced the bloody struggle which terminated in the ...
... thought that the white man had come to throw him into the convulsions of war , to lay waste his dominions , and to disturb his peaceful repose . In the bosom of a country once his , commenced the bloody struggle which terminated in the ...
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... noe more of this at p'sent . Tis rude to trouble you farther , or divert yo ' thoughts from that scheme . ( The end torn off . ) Wm . Penn to Fitz John Winthrop . PHILADELPHIA , 42 [ FEB . MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY .
... noe more of this at p'sent . Tis rude to trouble you farther , or divert yo ' thoughts from that scheme . ( The end torn off . ) Wm . Penn to Fitz John Winthrop . PHILADELPHIA , 42 [ FEB . MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY .
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Page 350 - The exclusion of all other Europeans, necessarily gave to the nation making the discovery the sole right of acquiring the soil from the natives, and establishing settlements upon it. It was a right with which no Europeans could interfere. It was a right which all asserted for themselves, and to the assertion of which, by others, all assented.
Page 388 - ... and it is further ordered, that where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 200 - Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord...
Page 202 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire...
Page 138 - Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.
Page 349 - But, as they were all in pursuit of nearly the same object, it was necessary, in order to avoid conflicting settlements, and consequent war with each other, to establish a principle which all should acknowledge as the law by which the rights of acquisition, which they all asserted, should be regulated as between themselves.
Page 37 - The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
Page 141 - I am sensible that as a stranger to American parties and politics, I must lose much of the concealed satire of the piece, but I must own that, looking at the simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings in reading them aloud to Mrs. S. and two ladies, who are our guests, and our sides have been absolutely sore with laughing. I think, too, there are passages...
Page 153 - The sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill, In Ettrick's vale, is sinking sweet ; The westland wind is hush and still — The lake lies sleeping at my feet. Yet not the landscape to mine eye Bears those bright hues that once it bore : Though evening, with her richest dye, Flames o'er the hills of Ettrick's shore. ' With listless look along the plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride.
Page 202 - Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.