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... returned at night without having found any person or habitation . On the 15th of November , Miles Standish , and sixteen armed men , in searching for a place for set- tlement , saw five or six Indians , whom they followed for several ...
... returned at night without having found any person or habitation . On the 15th of November , Miles Standish , and sixteen armed men , in searching for a place for set- tlement , saw five or six Indians , whom they followed for several ...
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... returned with the welcome intelligence to the ship . This day has since been considered as the day on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed on the Rock of Plymouth . The day which has been annually cele- brated in commemoration of this ...
... returned with the welcome intelligence to the ship . This day has since been considered as the day on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed on the Rock of Plymouth . The day which has been annually cele- brated in commemoration of this ...
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... returned , and told us that he was not yet dead , though there was no hope we should find him living . Upon this we were much revived , and set forward with all speed , though it was late within night ere we got thither . About two of ...
... returned , and told us that he was not yet dead , though there was no hope we should find him living . Upon this we were much revived , and set forward with all speed , though it was late within night ere we got thither . About two of ...
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... returned , but finding his stomach come to him , he would not have the chickens killed , but kept them for breed . Neither durst we give him any physic , which was then sent , because his body was so much altered since our instructions ...
... returned , but finding his stomach come to him , he would not have the chickens killed , but kept them for breed . Neither durst we give him any physic , which was then sent , because his body was so much altered since our instructions ...
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... returned to England , than came from England to the colonies . Such , however , were the character and virtues of the emigrants , such the power over difficulties , which their reso- lute minds , and bodies hardened by labor , had ...
... returned to England , than came from England to the colonies . Such , however , were the character and virtues of the emigrants , such the power over difficulties , which their reso- lute minds , and bodies hardened by labor , had ...
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Page iii - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Page 12 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page iii - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 289 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 263 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 221 - And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Page 11 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 259 - Son of night, retire: call thy winds, and fly! Why dost thou come to my presence with thy shadowy arms ? Do I fear thy gloomy form, spirit of dismal Lodaf Weak is thy shield of clouds; feeble is that meteor thy sword!
Page 419 - Thus saith the Lord GOD, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Page 192 - ... to take account from time to time of all parents and masters and of their children, concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of this country...