Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America: From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, Volume 3

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Peter Force
P. Force, 1844 - United States

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Page 6 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 66 - Then shall the earth bring forth her increase : and God, even our own God, shall give us his blessing.
Page 42 - O that men would therefore praise the LORD for His goodness : and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men...
Page 1 - mend his native country, lamentably tattered both in the upper-leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take ; and as willing never to be paid for his work by old English wonted pay. It is his trade to patch all the year long gratis. Therefore I pray gentlemen keep your purses. By Theodore de la Guard.
Page iii - A true Declaration of the Estate of the Colonie in Virginia, with a confutation of such scandalous reports as haue tended to the disgrace of so worthy an enterprise. Published by aduise and direction of the Councell of Virginia.
Page 19 - I speak sadly; me thinks it should break the hearts of English-men, to see so many goodly English-women imprisoned in French Cages, peering out of their hoodholes for some men of mercy to help them with a little wit, and no body relieves them.
Page 43 - The Reformed Virginian Silk-Worm, or, a Rare and New Discovery of a speedy way, and easie means, found out by a young Lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May, Anno 1652.
Page 6 - I dare take upon me, to bee the Herauld of NewEngland so farre, as to proclaime to the world, in the name of our Colony, that all Familists, Antinomians, Anabaptists, and other Enthusiasts shall have free Liberty to keepe away from us, and such as will come to be gone as fast as they can, the sooner the better.
Page 19 - Moon, had need take measure every noon : and he that makes for Women, as often, to keep them from Lunacy. I have often heard divers Ladies vent loud feminine complaints of the wearisome varieties and chargeable changes of fashions: I marvel themselves prefer not a Bill of redress.
Page vii - Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?

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