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... centuries live anew , and to introduce them so fittingly to their descendants as to give fresh interest to their principles and new strength to the virtues they have bequeathed to us . Dr. Brown has followed the Pilgrims eagerly to ...
... centuries live anew , and to introduce them so fittingly to their descendants as to give fresh interest to their principles and new strength to the virtues they have bequeathed to us . Dr. Brown has followed the Pilgrims eagerly to ...
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... century , was known to have seen it . While in the possession of Prince , who died in 1758 , the manuscript was deposited in the New England Library in the tower of the Old South Church in Boston , from which , after the siege of the ...
... century , was known to have seen it . While in the possession of Prince , who died in 1758 , the manuscript was deposited in the New England Library in the tower of the Old South Church in Boston , from which , after the siege of the ...
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... centuries . We can see now that they were almost unconsciously pointing the way to a broader , freer life for the English - speaking people on both sides of the sea . For the time in which they lived was , in a special sense , a time of ...
... centuries . We can see now that they were almost unconsciously pointing the way to a broader , freer life for the English - speaking people on both sides of the sea . For the time in which they lived was , in a special sense , a time of ...
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... century and a half it may not be easy to show . But such secret , silent working there must have been . Our countryman , William of Occam , born about 1270 , was excommunicated by the Pope in the early part of the fourteenth century ...
... century and a half it may not be easy to show . But such secret , silent working there must have been . Our countryman , William of Occam , born about 1270 , was excommunicated by the Pope in the early part of the fourteenth century ...
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... century the Reformation of the sixteenth would not have been · possible . Wickliff died in 1384 ; but seventeen years later the preamble of the Act of 1401 , for the burning of heretics , states that divers false and perverse people of ...
... century the Reformation of the sixteenth would not have been · possible . Wickliff died in 1384 ; but seventeen years later the preamble of the Act of 1401 , for the burning of heretics , states that divers false and perverse people of ...
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Page 94 - Jeremiah did, because of the reproach and derision he met with daily, "and all his familiar friends watched for his halting," to be revenged on him for speaking the truth, he would be forced to confess as he confessed; "his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary with forbearing, and could not stay.
Page 37 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 261 - The houses are constructed of hewn planks, with gardens also inclosed behind and at the sides with hewn planks, so that their houses and courtyards are arranged in very good order, with a stockade, against a sudden attack ; and at the ends of the streets there are three wooden gates.
Page 199 - God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith, and honour of our king and countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly...
Page 181 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Page 319 - They who have power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the...
Page 200 - ... ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just and equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the generall good of the Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 158 - Lastly, (and which was not least), a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagations and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea, though they should be but even as stepping-stones unto others for the performing of so great a work.
Page 28 - Harrison, preaching against bishops, ceremonies, ecclesiastical courts, ordaining of ministers, &c. for which $ as he afterwards boasted, he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day.
Page 117 - She honoured her place and was an ornament to the congregation. She usually sat in a convenient place in the congregation, with a little birchen rod in her hand, and kept little children in great awe from disturbing the congregation.