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... Things working together for their Good " 1 CHAPTER XX . 232 English Politics - The Puritans and the Pilgrims - Multitudes in Britain prepare for Emigration - Roger Conant - Old John White of Dorchester - The Point d'Appui - White's ...
... Things working together for their Good " 1 CHAPTER XX . 232 English Politics - The Puritans and the Pilgrims - Multitudes in Britain prepare for Emigration - Roger Conant - Old John White of Dorchester - The Point d'Appui - White's ...
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... Thing makes Them Hesitate Character of the Charter - The " Open Sesame " Alienation of the Government of the Company - A Daring Con- struction changes a Trading Corporation into a Provincial Government - Joy of the Would - be Emigrants ...
... Thing makes Them Hesitate Character of the Charter - The " Open Sesame " Alienation of the Government of the Company - A Daring Con- struction changes a Trading Corporation into a Provincial Government - Joy of the Would - be Emigrants ...
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... thing in moral truth or in human na- ture . A sentiment determined their course ; but it was more cogent than all the learned argument which they lavished in its defence . A man of honor will not be bribed to display himself in a fool's ...
... thing in moral truth or in human na- ture . A sentiment determined their course ; but it was more cogent than all the learned argument which they lavished in its defence . A man of honor will not be bribed to display himself in a fool's ...
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... we do not believe these things , and as honest men we will not profess so to believe by act or sign * Palfrey , Hist . of New England , vol . 1 , p . 113 , note . any more than by word . ' Theirs was no 24 THE PILGRIM FATHERS .
... we do not believe these things , and as honest men we will not profess so to believe by act or sign * Palfrey , Hist . of New England , vol . 1 , p . 113 , note . any more than by word . ' Theirs was no 24 THE PILGRIM FATHERS .
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... things of indifference ; Calvin demanded a spiritual worship in its utmost purity . " * The Separatists were ardent Calvinists . They esteemed the " offices and callings , courts and can- Bancroft , Hist . United States , vol . 1 , pp ...
... things of indifference ; Calvin demanded a spiritual worship in its utmost purity . " * The Separatists were ardent Calvinists . They esteemed the " offices and callings , courts and can- Bancroft , Hist . United States , vol . 1 , pp ...
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Page 244 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 76 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 51 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.
Page 51 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission...
Page 17 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 61 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because...
Page 52 - Short of stature he was, but strongly built and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with muscles and sinews of iron ; Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was already Flaked with patches of snow, as hedges sometimes in November.
Page 51 - King, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Page 300 - In the unwavering assertion of his views he never changed his position; the sanctity of conscience was the great tenet, which, with all its consequences, he defended, as he first trod the shores of New England; and in his extreme old age it was the last pulsation of his heart.
Page 46 - We are knit together as a body in a most strict and sacred bond and covenant of the Lord, of the violation whereof we make great conscience, and by virtue whereof we do hold ourselves straitly tied to all care of each other's good, and of the whole by every one, and so mutually. " 5. Lastly, it is not with us as with other men whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again.