Roger Ludlow, the Colonial LawmakerG.P. Putnam's sons, 1900 - 166 pages |
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... gave character , inspiration , perpetuity , to the historic movement which has been called the last of our great Heroisms . Curtis thus describes him : " The Puritan was hard , severe , sour , sober , and bigoted ; but God sifted three ...
... gave character , inspiration , perpetuity , to the historic movement which has been called the last of our great Heroisms . Curtis thus describes him : " The Puritan was hard , severe , sour , sober , and bigoted ; but God sifted three ...
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... gave to the world those men and women of heroic mould , ordained an aristoc- racy , not by decree of kings , but by virtue of their own moral strength . And having kept the faith through years of bitterness and sacri- fice , they looked ...
... gave to the world those men and women of heroic mould , ordained an aristoc- racy , not by decree of kings , but by virtue of their own moral strength . And having kept the faith through years of bitterness and sacri- fice , they looked ...
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... gave to such as were contrite ; Their darkness sad he turned to joyous light . " Each ear that heard him said , He spake to me , So piercing was his holy ministry " ; Bellingham , the stern moralist from his own point of view- " The ...
... gave to such as were contrite ; Their darkness sad he turned to joyous light . " Each ear that heard him said , He spake to me , So piercing was his holy ministry " ; Bellingham , the stern moralist from his own point of view- " The ...
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... gave them just pretences to stand candidates to represent the county in Parliament as Knights of the Shire , which honor they seldom failed to attain . " All these forebears and kinsmen were " those whom their race and bloud , or at ...
... gave them just pretences to stand candidates to represent the county in Parliament as Knights of the Shire , which honor they seldom failed to attain . " All these forebears and kinsmen were " those whom their race and bloud , or at ...
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... gave his for- tune ; and he brought to it a thorough educa- tional equipment and discipline , as he was matriculated at Balliol College , Oxford , in 1610 , and became a student in the Inner Temple in 1612. All his years , from collegi ...
... gave his for- tune ; and he brought to it a thorough educa- tional equipment and discipline , as he was matriculated at Balliol College , Oxford , in 1610 , and became a student in the Inner Temple in 1612. All his years , from collegi ...
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Page 4 - Having undertaken for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 4 - Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony ; unto which we promise all...
Page 4 - Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Page 75 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased the Almighty God by the wise disposition of his divine providence so to order and dispose of things that we the inhabitants and residents of Windsor...
Page 75 - Gouerment established according to God, to order and dispose of the affayres of the people at all seasons as occation shall require; doe therefore assotiate and conioyne our selues to be as one Publike State or Comonwelth...
Page 42 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.
Page 76 - Oath recorded for that purpose shall have power to administer justice according to the Lawes here established, and for want thereof according to the rule of the word of God...
Page 3 - 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 propagating 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 77 - Magestracy which was not propownded in some Generall Courte before, to be nominated the next Election ; and to that end yt shall be lawfull for ech of the Townes aforesaid by their deputyes to nominate any two...
Page 84 - It is claimed by some recent writers that it was not the intention of the framers of the Constitution to confer...