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... taken hold of present life , and in giving due weight to fact while he puts fiction aside . His address on the Historic Episcopate , which he delivered in London in 1891 , as president of the Congregational Union in England and Wales ...
... taken hold of present life , and in giving due weight to fact while he puts fiction aside . His address on the Historic Episcopate , which he delivered in London in 1891 , as president of the Congregational Union in England and Wales ...
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... taken special note of it for about ten years after its first publication . At length , in the month of February , 1855 , the Rev. John S. Barry happened to con- sult it when engaged upon the first volume of his History of Massachusetts ...
... taken special note of it for about ten years after its first publication . At length , in the month of February , 1855 , the Rev. John S. Barry happened to con- sult it when engaged upon the first volume of his History of Massachusetts ...
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... taken . If , therefore , I have not always made due acknowledgment , I can only crave lenient indulgence beforehand . In the hope that the re - telling of an old story , under the new lights of a later time , may not be without interest ...
... taken . If , therefore , I have not always made due acknowledgment , I can only crave lenient indulgence beforehand . In the hope that the re - telling of an old story , under the new lights of a later time , may not be without interest ...
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... taken of all sheriffs that they would see to the execution of these commands , and that ' all his officers , dapifers and barons , together with all knights and freeholders , should be sworn to the same effect , ' 1 it would appear that ...
... taken of all sheriffs that they would see to the execution of these commands , and that ' all his officers , dapifers and barons , together with all knights and freeholders , should be sworn to the same effect , ' 1 it would appear that ...
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... taken away the parishioners retaliated by drawing a figure of the cross with chalk in its place ; and when that in return was painted over , crosses were drawn upon the church walls , within and without , and also upon 1 The lamentable ...
... taken away the parishioners retaliated by drawing a figure of the cross with chalk in its place ; and when that in return was painted over , crosses were drawn upon the church walls , within and without , and also upon 1 The lamentable ...
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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.