The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America, Volume 8

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John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson
Henry B. Dawson, 1864

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Page 188 - ... his mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 72 - The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate abreast.
Page 198 - Ans. Of all Offices, one would not beg this ; viz. Uncall'd for, to be an Executioner of the Vindictive Wrath of God ; the extent and duration of which is to us uncertain. If this ever was a Commission ; How do we know but that it is long since out of Date? Many have found it to their Cost, that a Prophetical Denunciation of Judgment against a Person or People, would not warrant them to inflict that evil.
Page 197 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 52 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime! I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...
Page 177 - America, and a security for such as pass on the Seas upon their lawful occasions ; that the .inhabitants of our land may in peace and quietness serve thee our God...
Page 37 - FEDERALIST : A Collection of Essays written in favor of the New Constitution, as agreed upon by the Fcederal Convention, September 17, 1787.
Page 12 - Secretary, by which the treasurer of the County was " fully empowered to sell the said persons to any of the English nation at Virginia or Barbadoes, to answer said fines.
Page 352 - York, for the education of such" poor children as do not belong to, or are not provided for by any religious Society...
Page 199 - Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them: for this is the Law and the Prophets.

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