Four Centuries of Progress ...C. W. Stanton Company, 1893 - 923 pages |
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... Assembly - Representative Government es- tablished in America - The Colonists obtain Wives -Changes in the Government . CHAPTER VII . PROGRESS OF THE VIRGINIA COLONY . Introduction of Negro Slavery into Virginia - Efforts of the Assembly ...
... Assembly - Representative Government es- tablished in America - The Colonists obtain Wives -Changes in the Government . CHAPTER VII . PROGRESS OF THE VIRGINIA COLONY . Introduction of Negro Slavery into Virginia - Efforts of the Assembly ...
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... Assembly - Discontents of the People -- Leisler's Rebellion - Execution of Leisler and Milbourne-- Fletcher Governor -- His Attempt to obtain Com- mand of the Ccanecticut Militia - Episcopacy Es- tablished in New York - The Freedom of ...
... Assembly - Discontents of the People -- Leisler's Rebellion - Execution of Leisler and Milbourne-- Fletcher Governor -- His Attempt to obtain Com- mand of the Ccanecticut Militia - Episcopacy Es- tablished in New York - The Freedom of ...
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... Assembly - General Gage in Boston -- The Regulat- ing Act - Its Failure - Gage Seizes the Massachu- setts Powder - Uprising of the Colony -- Meeting of the Continental Congress -- Its Action - Addresses to the King and People of England ...
... Assembly - General Gage in Boston -- The Regulat- ing Act - Its Failure - Gage Seizes the Massachu- setts Powder - Uprising of the Colony -- Meeting of the Continental Congress -- Its Action - Addresses to the King and People of England ...
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... Assembly - Representative Government Established in America - The Colonists Obtain Wives - Changes in the Government . Τ | siasm , and men who had money to invest , and were somewhat inclined to indulge in speculation , were ready to ...
... Assembly - Representative Government Established in America - The Colonists Obtain Wives - Changes in the Government . Τ | siasm , and men who had money to invest , and were somewhat inclined to indulge in speculation , were ready to ...
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... assembly and laid before the king . The captive was seized and dragged to the stones , forced down , and his head laid upor them . Two brawny savages stood by to beat out his brains w ith their clubs . During these proceedings ...
... assembly and laid before the king . The captive was seized and dragged to the stones , forced down , and his head laid upor them . Two brawny savages stood by to beat out his brains w ith their clubs . During these proceedings ...
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Page 385 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon, them or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 95 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 292 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 780 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage.
Page 392 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Page 126 - In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord, King' James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honour of our king and country...
Page 124 - Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Page 126 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 863 - In the discharge of my official duty I shall endeavor to be guided by a just and unstrained construction of the Constitution, a careful observance of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people...
Page 348 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.