A Biographical Dictionary: Containing a Brief Account of the First Settlers, and Other Eminent Characters Among the Magistrates, Ministers, Literary and Worthy Men, in New-Englandby Cushing and Appleton, Salem, and Edward Oliver, no. 70, State street, 1809 - 511 стор. |
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... obtain in the plantations . Mr. John Higginson , Mr. Sherman and Thomas Thacher were the most famous among them . The third con- sisted of those who were ejected from the ministry , after the res toration of the monarchy , and ...
... obtain in the plantations . Mr. John Higginson , Mr. Sherman and Thomas Thacher were the most famous among them . The third con- sisted of those who were ejected from the ministry , after the res toration of the monarchy , and ...
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... obtained distinction in the armies of Europe . The members of the first congress were viewed with admiration bordering on enthusiasm . Their abilities as statesmen , and their political integrity , did honour to the United States , and ...
... obtained distinction in the armies of Europe . The members of the first congress were viewed with admiration bordering on enthusiasm . Their abilities as statesmen , and their political integrity , did honour to the United States , and ...
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... obtaining documents , or such peculiar notices as are necessary for proper delineations of characters , induced the writ- er to confine himself to New England . Some articles in its pres ent form are omitted , which would be equally ...
... obtaining documents , or such peculiar notices as are necessary for proper delineations of characters , induced the writ- er to confine himself to New England . Some articles in its pres ent form are omitted , which would be equally ...
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... the first settlers , who was employed as their agent in England upon sev- eral occasions . In 1620 he went over to treat with the adventurers and to obtain money and articles which were wanted in the plantation . The next year ALL 25.
... the first settlers , who was employed as their agent in England upon sev- eral occasions . In 1620 he went over to treat with the adventurers and to obtain money and articles which were wanted in the plantation . The next year ALL 25.
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... obtained a grant of the land from the king of England . His administration began with lenient measures , the effect rather of his policy than clemency , or he soon discovered a temper , cruel to individuals and unfriendly to the state ...
... obtained a grant of the land from the king of England . His administration began with lenient measures , the effect rather of his policy than clemency , or he soon discovered a temper , cruel to individuals and unfriendly to the state ...
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Сторінка 207 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Сторінка 135 - Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work : for I am with you, saith the Lord of Hosts...
Сторінка 252 - We will not say, as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell Babylon — Farewell Rome ; but we will say, Farewell, dear England — Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there...
Сторінка 429 - Baptist, his harbinger, or, if he was ever there* had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the cloak rather than needlessly contend for the coat, though taken away without order. A little chimney is soon fired ; so was the Plymouth Captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper.
Сторінка 252 - Farewell, Babylon ! Farewell, Rome ! But we will say Farewell, dear England ! Farewell, the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there. We do not go to New England as Separatists from the Church of England, though we cannot but separate from the corruptions in it. But we go to practice the positive part of church reformation, and propagate the Gospel in America.
Сторінка 333 - All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Сторінка 224 - America Painted to the Life. The true history of the Spaniards Proceedings in the Conquests of the Indians, and of their Civil Wars among themselves, from Columbus his first Discovery, to these later Times. As also, Of the Original Undertakings of the Advancement of Plantations into those parts; with a perfect Relation of our English Discoveries, shewing their Beginning, Progress and Continuance, from the Year 1628 to 1658...
Сторінка 157 - Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch ; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice.
Сторінка ii - Eliot, John. A Biographical Dictionary, containing a brief account of the First Settlers and other eminent characters among the Magistrates, Ministers, Literary, and worthy men in New England.
Сторінка 142 - Ms. from 1779 until his death, and acting gov. in 1785. His signature being affixed to all public papers, as speaker of the house, caused him to be regarded in Great Britain as the leader of the Whigs in this country. Dr. Johnson, in his " Taxation no Tyranny," says, " One object of the Americans is said to be to adorn the brows of Mr.