North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840: A Documentary History, Volume 5

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Edwards & Broughton printing Company, state printers, 1915 - Education - 846 pages

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Page 670 - For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Page 574 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 657 - That our oxen may be strong to labour ; That there be no breaking in, nor going out ; That there be no complaining in our streets. Happy is that people, that is in such a case : Yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord'.
Page 657 - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner.stones, polished after the similitude of a palace...
Page 480 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Page 658 - And daughters, bright as polish'd stones, Give strength and beauty to the state. 2 Happy the country, where the sheep, Cattle, and corn, have large increase ; Where men securely work, or sleep, Nor sons of plunder break their peace.
Page 720 - Leach and the writer was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws for the government of the Association.
Page 670 - Christ shall rise first : then they which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air : and so shall they ever be with the Lord.
Page 515 - He will, at the same time, open an Evening School for the purpose of instructing Children of Colour, as he intends, for the accommodation of some of his employers, to exclude all Children of Colour from his Day School. The Evening School will commence at an hour by Sun.
Page 197 - FRIENDLESS," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall have power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be...

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