The History of the United States of North America, from the Plantation of the British Colonies Till Their Revolt and Declaration of Independence |
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... respect which I feel for the judgment of some intelligent and estimable friends ( and in particular of my Brother1 ) has induced me to cancel various passages in the original publication , which were censured as obtruding 1 Author of ...
... respect which I feel for the judgment of some intelligent and estimable friends ( and in particular of my Brother1 ) has induced me to cancel various passages in the original publication , which were censured as obtruding 1 Author of ...
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... still so defective in many respects , that in the hope of enlarging it , and in compliance with the advice of my friend Sir William Hamilton , ( of whose counsel and assistance I can better feel the obligation than X PREFACE .
... still so defective in many respects , that in the hope of enlarging it , and in compliance with the advice of my friend Sir William Hamilton , ( of whose counsel and assistance I can better feel the obligation than X PREFACE .
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... respect for antiquity becomes the motive and pledge of virtue ; the whole body of the people feels itself ennobled by the consciousness of ancestors whose renown will constitute , to the end of time , the honour or reproach of their ...
... respect for antiquity becomes the motive and pledge of virtue ; the whole body of the people feels itself ennobled by the consciousness of ancestors whose renown will constitute , to the end of time , the honour or reproach of their ...
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... respecting the right to Maine and New Hamp- shire . Progress of the dispute between the King and the Colony . State of parties in Massachusetts . State of Religion and Morals in New England . Surrender of the Charter of Massachusetts ...
... respecting the right to Maine and New Hamp- shire . Progress of the dispute between the King and the Colony . State of parties in Massachusetts . State of Religion and Morals in New England . Surrender of the Charter of Massachusetts ...
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... respecting the extent and dimensions of the earth : Hist . of America , Book I. Yet a Roman writer , to whose sentiments he has not adverted , is supposed to have prophesied the discovery of America , 1400 years before this event took ...
... respecting the extent and dimensions of the earth : Hist . of America , Book I. Yet a Roman writer , to whose sentiments he has not adverted , is supposed to have prophesied the discovery of America , 1400 years before this event took ...
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Page 439 - Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought...
Page 190 - Remember that, and every other article of your sacred covenant. But I must herewithal exhort you to take heed what you receive as truth; examine it, consider it, and compare it with other scriptures of truth, before you receive it; for it is not possible the Christian world should come so lately out of such thick antichristian darkness, and that perfection of knowledge should break forth at once.
Page 189 - I charge you, before God and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. " If God reveal anything to you, by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy Word.
Page 302 - For the last Man you put to Death, here are five come in his Room. And if you have Power to take my Life from me, God can raise up the same Principle of Life in ten of his Servants, and send them among you in my Room, that you may have Torment upon Torment, which is your Portion : For there is no Peace to the Wicked, saith my God.
Page 189 - If God reveal any thing to you, by any other instrument ^ of his, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry; for I am verily persuaded, I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 189 - Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Page 440 - And the Lord showed me, that such as were faithful to him, in the power and light of Christ, should come up into that state in which Adam was before he fell; in which the admirable works of the creation, and the virtues thereof may be known, through the openings of that divine word of wisdom and power by which they were made.
Page 272 - ... t is the grand enemy of truth and peace, and all the ordinances of God are bent against it. But there is a civil, a moral, a federal liberty, which is the proper end and object of authority; it is a liberty for that only which is just and good ; for this liberty you are to stand with...
Page 260 - Flaistowe, for stealing four baskets of corn from the Indians, is ordered to return them eight baskets, to be fined five pounds, and hereafter to be called by the name of Josias, and not Mr., as formerly he used to be.* Captain Stone, for abusing Mr.
Page 33 - Licence, to make Habitation, Plantation, and to deduce a Colony of sundry of our People into that Part of America, commonly called VIRGINIA...