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agreed allowed already America appointed arrived Assembly assistants attempted authority body Boston brought called carried CHAPTER chief chosen church civil claimed coast colonists colony command commission commissioners Connecticut council Court death deputies Dutch elders elected England English entered enterprise established favor five followed force formed four French gave give governor grant hand head held hundred Indians inhabitants Island king known land late less letter liberty limits Lord magistrates March Massachusetts matter minister Narraganset obtained opinions party passed Pequods persons plantation Plymouth possession presently principal prisoners proceedings Providence province Puritan received religious remained returned River sailed seems sent settled settlement settlers shillings ships soon Spanish taken tion tobacco took town trade tribes United vessels Virginia voyage West whole Winthrop
Popular passages
Page 294 - He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
Page 301 - 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. This liberty you are to stand for, with the hazard (not only of your goods, but) of your lives, if need be.
Page 389 - I further add that I never denied, that notwithstanding this liberty, the commander of this ship ought to command the ship's course, yea, and also command that justice, peace and sobriety, be kept and practiced, both among the seamen and all the passengers.
Page 322 - Further, the Lord hath been pleased to turn all the wigwams, huts, and hovels the English dwelt in at their first coming, into orderly, fair, and well-built houses...
Page 362 - It being one chief project of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...
Page 132 - Netherlands, with the exclusive privilege to traffic and plant colonies on the coast of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope ; on the coast of America, from the straits of Magellan to the remotest north.
Page 320 - The serpent is the devil ; 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 527 - No, may it please your honor, we will not hurt a hair of your ' head, nor of any other man's; we are come for a commission ' to save our lives from the Indians, which you have so often ' promised, and now we will have it before we go.
Page 166 - They were well weaned from the delicate milk of their mother country, and inured to the difficulties of a strange land.
Page 206 - Calvert issued a proclamation in 1638, to prohibit "all unreasonable disputations in point of religion tending to the disturbance of the public peace and quiet of the colony, and to the opening of faction in religion.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The History of the United States of America, Volume 1 The History of the United States of America, Richard Hildreth |
| Author | Richard Hildreth |
| Publisher | Harper, 1849 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 1 Dec 2006 |
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