Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789, Volume 1

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1890 - Communities - 964 pages
 

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Page 121 - This liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it ; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.
Page 135 - ... contradict the main end of planting this wilderness ; " whereupon a well-known person, then in the assembly, cryed out, " Sir, you are mistaken : you think you are preaching to the people at the Bay; our main end was to catch fish.
Page 422 - Desires to take the Blame and shame of it, Asking pardon of men, And especially desiring prayers that God, who has an Unlimited Authority, would pardon that sin and all other his sins; personal and Relative: and according to his infinite Benignity, and Sovereignty, not Visit the sin of him, or of any other, upon himself or any of his, nor upon the Land: But that He would powerfully defend him against all Temptations to Sin, for the future; and vouchsafe him the efficacious, saving Conduct of his...
Page 429 - These Ethiopians, as black as they are, seeing they are the Sons and Daughters of the First Adam, the Brethren and Sisters of the Last ADAM, and the Offspring of GOD ; They ought to be treated with a Respect agreeable.
Page 223 - No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath or Fasting day. No one shall read Common Prayer, keep Christmas or Saint days, make minced pies, dance, play cards, or play on any instrument of music, except the drum, trumpet, and jewsharp.
Page 224 - William Snelling for words by him uttered, affirm that being in way of merry discourse, a health being drank to all friends, he answered, — ' I '11 pledge my friends, And for my foes A plague for their heels And...
Page 70 - The serpent is the devil f the synod, the representative of the churches of Christ in New England. The devil had formerly and lately attempted their disturbance and dissolution; but their faith in the seed of the woman overcame him and crushed his head.
Page 100 - Our turnips, parsnips and carrots are here both bigger and sweeter than is ordinarily to be found in England.
Page 31 - Maine land on Powakasick side, and doe promise loveinge and just carriage of myselfe and all my men to the said Mr. Coddington and English his friends united to him, havinge received five fathom of wampum as gratuity.
Page 223 - No one shall run on the Sabbath Day, or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath Day.

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