Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Band 1

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Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902
 

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Seite 91 - To THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE You brave heroic minds Worthy your country's name, That honour still pursue; Go and subdue ! Whilst loitering hinds Lurk here at home with shame. Britons, you stay too long: Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry gale Swell your stretch'd sail With vows as strong As the winds that blow you.
Seite 208 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Seite 93 - O you, the happiest men, Be frolic then; Let cannons roar, Frighting the wide heaven. And in regions far, Such heroes bring ye forth As those from whom we came, And plant our name Under that star Not known unto our north. And as there plenty grows Of laurel everywhere, Apollo's sacred tree, You it may see A poet's brows To crown, that may sing there.
Seite 49 - From the Mappe he brought me to the Bible, and turning to the 107 Psalme, directed mee to the 23 & 24 verses, where I read, that they which go downe to the sea in ships, and occupy by the great waters, they see the works of the Lord, and his woonders in the deepe, &c.
Seite 89 - Lastly and chiefly, the way to prosper and achieve good success is to make yourselves all of one mind, for the good of your country and your own, and to serve and fear God, the Giver of all goodness; for every plantation which our Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out.
Seite 371 - I do declare and promise, that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.
Seite 55 - ... noblemen and gentlemen, yea, and certain abbots, holy men, God •wot! not contenting themselves with the yearly revenues and profits that were wont to grow to their forefathers and predecessors of their lands, nor being content that they live in rest and pleasure — nothing profiting, yea, much annoying the weal publick — leave no ground for tillage ; they enclose all into pastures, they throw down houses, they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing but only the church to be made a...
Seite 364 - That whatsoever person or persons within this Province and the Islands thereunto belonging shall from henceforth blaspheme God, that is Curse him, or deny our Saviour Jesus Christ to bee the sonne of God, or shall deny the holy Trinity...
Seite 153 - These are the causes that have kept us in Virginia, from laying such a foundation, that ere this might have given much better content and satisfaction; but as yet you must not looke for any profitable returnes: so I humbly rest.

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