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... meeting - house and schoolhouse to be built for them at the charge of the Province , Colonel Stoddard becoming chairman of a new committee raised for that purpose ; and in May , 1739 , the town was regularly incorporated , and often ...
... meeting - house and schoolhouse to be built for them at the charge of the Province , Colonel Stoddard becoming chairman of a new committee raised for that purpose ; and in May , 1739 , the town was regularly incorporated , and often ...
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... meeting- houses of the town in succession , from 1768 to 1866 ; and on the first pastor's lot , No. 36 , sold by him shortly after his induction , stood during the whole of the nineteenth century the principal tavern of the town . In ...
... meeting- houses of the town in succession , from 1768 to 1866 ; and on the first pastor's lot , No. 36 , sold by him shortly after his induction , stood during the whole of the nineteenth century the principal tavern of the town . In ...
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... meetings for the purpose of taxing themselves and all other owners of the house - lots , whether resident or not , to sell at public auction after proper advertisement the lots of any delinquents in paying these rates , to open roads ...
... meetings for the purpose of taxing themselves and all other owners of the house - lots , whether resident or not , to sell at public auction after proper advertisement the lots of any delinquents in paying these rates , to open roads ...
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... meeting - house in 1768 , and they continued to regulate all matters concerning the still undivided lands . Of course the town grew relatively stronger and the proprietors weaker , especially after the Revolutionary War , during which ...
... meeting - house in 1768 , and they continued to regulate all matters concerning the still undivided lands . Of course the town grew relatively stronger and the proprietors weaker , especially after the Revolutionary War , during which ...
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... meeting was had " at the house of Captain Allen Curtis , " and the names of three proprietors additional to the former eleven appear in the record of it , to wit , Captain Elisha Chapin ( who was chosen the moderator ) , Oliver Avery ...
... meeting was had " at the house of Captain Allen Curtis , " and the names of three proprietors additional to the former eleven appear in the record of it , to wit , Captain Elisha Chapin ( who was chosen the moderator ) , Oliver Avery ...
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Page 229 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 554 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 554 - In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!
Page 554 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart ; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration...
Page 151 - Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide; The Form remains, the Function never dies; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish; — be it so!
Page 638 - Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait, Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace— soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 228 - We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans; we are all federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 229 - ... the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Page 548 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Page 58 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...