History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Volume 2C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1844 |
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... Virginia - Grants of Territory , 69 . CHAPTER XII . MASSACHUSETTS AND CHARLES II . Address to the King , 71 — John Eliot , 72 — Declaration of Rights , 73 — Par- ties in the Colony , 74 - Intolerance renewed , 76 - Appointment of Royal ...
... Virginia - Grants of Territory , 69 . CHAPTER XII . MASSACHUSETTS AND CHARLES II . Address to the King , 71 — John Eliot , 72 — Declaration of Rights , 73 — Par- ties in the Colony , 74 - Intolerance renewed , 76 - Appointment of Royal ...
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... Virginia , 188 - Aristocracy , 190 - Servants , 191 - Slaves , 193 -Parties in Virginia at the Restoration , 195 - The Royalists carry the Elec- tions , 196 - The Navigation Act , 197 - Royalist Legislation - A State Reli- gion , 200 ...
... Virginia , 188 - Aristocracy , 190 - Servants , 191 - Slaves , 193 -Parties in Virginia at the Restoration , 195 - The Royalists carry the Elec- tions , 196 - The Navigation Act , 197 - Royalist Legislation - A State Reli- gion , 200 ...
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... Virginia named one of her most beautiful coun- ties , and Carolina her broadest bay . Sir William Coventry , no mean judge of men , esteemed him a drudge ; Lord Sandwich sneered at him plainly as a thick - skulled fool ; and the more ...
... Virginia named one of her most beautiful coun- ties , and Carolina her broadest bay . Sir William Coventry , no mean judge of men , esteemed him a drudge ; Lord Sandwich sneered at him plainly as a thick - skulled fool ; and the more ...
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... Virginia planter , by lowering the price of his tobacco crop , oppressed the English laborer , by raising the price of his bread ; till at last a whig ministry could offer a bounty on the exportation of corn . 1 The law was still more ...
... Virginia planter , by lowering the price of his tobacco crop , oppressed the English laborer , by raising the price of his bread ; till at last a whig ministry could offer a bounty on the exportation of corn . 1 The law was still more ...
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... Virginia was founded by a private company ; New England was the home of exiles . England first thrust them out ; and she owned them as her children only to oppress them ! Again , it was said that the commercial losses of the colonists ...
... Virginia was founded by a private company ; New England was the home of exiles . England first thrust them out ; and she owned them as her children only to oppress them ! Again , it was said that the commercial losses of the colonists ...
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Page 32 - Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent Would have been held in high esteem with Paul, Must now be named and printed heretics By shallow Edwards and Scotch What d'ye call.
Page 62 - ... do not actually disturb the civil peace of our said colony ; but that all and every person and persons may, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, freely and fully have...
Page 364 - I hope you will not be troubled at your change and the king's choice, for you are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great ; you shall be governed by laws of your own making, and live a free, and, if you will, a sober and industrious people.
Page 368 - For their learning be liberal. Spare no cost; for by such parsimony all is lost that is saved: but let it be useful knowledge, such as is consistent with truth and godliness, not cherishing a vain conversation or idle mind, but ingenuity mixed with industry is good for the body and mind too.
Page 366 - ... care for men of the highest attainments, even more than the office of correcting evil-doers ; and, without imposing one uniform model on all the world, without denying that time, place, and emergencies may bring with them a necessity or an excuse for monarchical, or even aristocratical institutions, he believed " any government to be free to the people, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws.
Page 363 - I have, and for my business here, know that after many waitings, watchings, solicitings and disputes in Council, this day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England...
Page 106 - Some in our house were fighting for their lives, others wallowing in blood, the house on fire over our heads, and the bloody heathen ready to knock us on the head if we stirred out Now might we hear mothers and children crying out for themselves and one another, Lord, what shall we do...
Page 59 - I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony.
Page 21 - Many more words I had with him; but people coming in, I drew a little back. As I was turning, he catched me by the hand, and with tears in his eyes said, 'Come again to my house; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other ;' adding, That he wished me no more ill than he did to his own soul.
Page 122 - Agent, quoted in the following words ; " they apprehended them to be an invasion of the rights, liberties and properties of the subjects of his Majesty, in the colony, they not being represented in Parliament...