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... course of two years and a half . Hindered from speaking , some of these dared to print the reasons of their dissent , and were punished with imprisonment or mutila- tion . This severity brought some of the best men in England to ...
... course of two years and a half . Hindered from speaking , some of these dared to print the reasons of their dissent , and were punished with imprisonment or mutila- tion . This severity brought some of the best men in England to ...
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... assembly they are this day . 1 Winthrop's Journal , vol . i . pp . 128 , 129 , and the Editor's Note . 2 Winthrop's Journal , vol . ii . p . 160 . VOL . XI . 4 By this course of events , Concord and the other AT CONCORD . 49.
... assembly they are this day . 1 Winthrop's Journal , vol . i . pp . 128 , 129 , and the Editor's Note . 2 Winthrop's Journal , vol . ii . p . 160 . VOL . XI . 4 By this course of events , Concord and the other AT CONCORD . 49.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. By this course of events , Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and inde pendent of Boston , with certain rights of their own , which , what they were , time alone could fully de- termine ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. By this course of events , Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and inde pendent of Boston , with certain rights of their own , which , what they were , time alone could fully de- termine ...
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... courses which the English were tak- ing for their good ; for , said he , all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion , under the power of the higher sachems , what did they care for you ? They took away your skins , your ...
... courses which the English were tak- ing for their good ; for , said he , all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion , under the power of the higher sachems , what did they care for you ? They took away your skins , your ...
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... course of the war the town did not depart from this pledge it had given . Its little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest . The number of its troops constantly in service is very great . Its pecuniary burdens are ...
... course of the war the town did not depart from this pledge it had given . Its little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest . The number of its troops constantly in service is very great . Its pecuniary burdens are ...
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Page 75 - And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
Page 43 - London; nay, all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
Page 303 - The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assured And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 309 - He was a man without vices. He had a strong sense of duty which it was very easy for him to obey. Then he had what farmers call a long head ; was excellent in working out the sum for himself, in arguing his case and convincing you fairly and firmly. Then it turned out that he was a great worker, and, prodigious faculty of performance, worked easily.
Page 52 - I shall be excused for confessing that I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books, as proof that justice was done; that if the results of our history are approved as wise and good, it was yet a free strife; if the good counsel prevailed, the sneaking counsel did not fail to be suggested; freedom and virtue, if they triumphed, triumphed in a fair field. And so be it an everlasting testimony for them, and so much ground of assurance...
Page 16 - And when the Jews on that occasion complained that they did not comprehend what he meant, he added for their better understanding, and as if for our understanding, that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment. He closed his discourse with these explanatory expressions: "The flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life.
Page 189 - And so it is not a great matter how long men refuse to believe the advent of peace : war is on its last legs ; and a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism, of liberal governments over feudal forms. The question for us is only How soon...
Page 60 - ... 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 173 - There remains the very elevated consideration which the subject opens, but which belongs to more abstract views than we are now taking, this namely, that the civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members.
Page 139 - to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies, and for the discouragement of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa.