The American Nation, a History: Andrews, C. M. Colonial self-government, 1652-1689Albert Bushnell Hart Harper & Brothers, 1904 - United States |
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... VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Captain William Gordon McCabe , Litt.D. , Pres- ident Lyon G. Tyler , LL.D. , Pres . William and Mary College Judge David C. Richardson J. A. C. Chandler , Professor Richmond College Edward Wilson James THE ...
... VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Captain William Gordon McCabe , Litt.D. , Pres- ident Lyon G. Tyler , LL.D. , Pres . William and Mary College Judge David C. Richardson J. A. C. Chandler , Professor Richmond College Edward Wilson James THE ...
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... Virginia and Maryland where Tyler left it off in the preceding volume ; but , besides his lucid ac- count of the commercial and political development of the two colonies , he has a fine field for treating a dramatic episode in his ...
... Virginia and Maryland where Tyler left it off in the preceding volume ; but , besides his lucid ac- count of the commercial and political development of the two colonies , he has a fine field for treating a dramatic episode in his ...
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... Virginia and New York ; and , finally , the attempt to unite the northern colonies more closely to the crown , which centred in the mission and gov- ernment of Andros . In consequence of this attempt to formulate and put in force a ...
... Virginia and New York ; and , finally , the attempt to unite the northern colonies more closely to the crown , which centred in the mission and gov- ernment of Andros . In consequence of this attempt to formulate and put in force a ...
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... Virginia , who occupied a coast low - lying and deeply indented with wide river - mouths . In 1650 all these settlements contained something more than forty thousand people , of whom about twenty- five thousand were New - Englanders ...
... Virginia , who occupied a coast low - lying and deeply indented with wide river - mouths . In 1650 all these settlements contained something more than forty thousand people , of whom about twenty- five thousand were New - Englanders ...
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... colonies to maintain their existing governments , and in 1651 despatched a fleet to Barbadoes , and a commission to Virginia and Maryland , to reduce those provinces to their due obedience 4 [ 1655 COLONIAL SELF - GOVERNMENT.
... colonies to maintain their existing governments , and in 1651 despatched a fleet to Barbadoes , and a commission to Virginia and Maryland , to reduce those provinces to their due obedience 4 [ 1655 COLONIAL SELF - GOVERNMENT.
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Page 183 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Page 183 - ... to support power in reverence with the people and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honorable for their just administration. For liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Page 311 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 183 - It is the great end of government to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Page 294 - So after hearty Entertainment, Of Drink and Victuals without Payment ; For Planters Tables, you must know, Are free for all that come and go. While Pon and Milk, with Mush well stoar'd, In wooden Dishes grac'd the Board ; With Homine and Syder-pap, (Which scarce a hungry Dog wou'd lap) Well stuff'd with Fat, from Bacon fry'd, Or with Molossus dulcify'd.
Page 183 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad. If it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
Page 222 - «welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond you shall be hanged in half an hour.
Page 180 - ... the rivers and creeks be sounded on my side of Delaware River, especially Upland, in order to settle a great town, and be sure to make your choice where it is most navigable, high, dry, and healthy ; that is where most ships may best ride, of deepest draught of water, if possible to load or unload at the bank or keys side without boating and lightening of it. It would do well if the river coming into that creek be navigable, at least for boats up into the country...
Page 94 - I cannot but suspect assemblies would be of dangerous consequence, nothing being more known than the aptness of such bodies to assume to themselves many privileges, which prove destructive to, or very often disturb, the peace of government, when they are allowed.
Page 311 - Every Schollar, that on proofe is found able to read the Originalls of the Old and New Testament into the Latine tongue, and to resolve them Logically; withall being of godly life and conversation; And at any publick Act hath the Approbation of the Overseers and Master of the Colledge, is fit to be dignified with his first Degree.