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... writer had not found leisure for more ex- tensive contributions . Mr. Bozman , in searching the records of Maryland , for the composition of his valuable history , discovered a corres- pondence , held at an early date , between the ...
... writer had not found leisure for more ex- tensive contributions . Mr. Bozman , in searching the records of Maryland , for the composition of his valuable history , discovered a corres- pondence , held at an early date , between the ...
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... writers , affecting knowledge they do not possess , undertake to instruct mankind by specious stories , founded on idle rumour and vague con- jecture . Those who are well informed smile at the folly . Great minds disdain to tell their ...
... writers , affecting knowledge they do not possess , undertake to instruct mankind by specious stories , founded on idle rumour and vague con- jecture . Those who are well informed smile at the folly . Great minds disdain to tell their ...
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... writer who , in a rapid view of centuries , ridicules the misery of injured virtue , displays the glory of successful vice , laughs at the re- straint of moral principle , and chuckles at the commis- sion of crimes , may ( if he please ) ...
... writer who , in a rapid view of centuries , ridicules the misery of injured virtue , displays the glory of successful vice , laughs at the re- straint of moral principle , and chuckles at the commis- sion of crimes , may ( if he please ) ...
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... writers by whom it has been made , has given a very wide circulation . Far from us be that base selfishness which joys to see any surpassing excel- lence brought down to its own low level . Let us ra- ther delight to linger at the good ...
... writers by whom it has been made , has given a very wide circulation . Far from us be that base selfishness which joys to see any surpassing excel- lence brought down to its own low level . Let us ra- ther delight to linger at the good ...
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... writers , though of but lit- tle authority as regards strict historical accuracy . From them it has passed without contradiction into many our recent biographical compilations . " of This charge bears such strong marks of improbability ...
... writers , though of but lit- tle authority as regards strict historical accuracy . From them it has passed without contradiction into many our recent biographical compilations . " of This charge bears such strong marks of improbability ...
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Seite 71 - 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"!
Seite 338 - Justice, and of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Amendment of the Law and the better advancement of Justice...
Seite 53 - Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Seite 101 - That our garners may be full and plenteous with all manner of store : that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets. 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour, that there be no decay : no leading into captivity, and no complaining in our streets.
Seite 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape.
Seite 57 - ... violent storm, then blowing; the stone at length by its rapid motion became so intensely hot, as to fire the mill, from whence the flames, being dispersed by the high winds, did set a whole town on fire. But I can tell my reader that...
Seite 63 - They were then met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage was to be taken on either side, but all was to be openness, brotherhood, and love.
Seite 114 - Indian scholars and missionaries; where he most exorbitantly proposes a whole hundred pounds a year for himself, forty pounds for a fellow, and ten for a student. His heart will break if his deanery be not taken from him, and left to your Excellency's disposal.
Seite 31 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel ; and they said, Nay ; but we will have a king over us ; that we also may be like all the nations ; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Seite 258 - Quiyoughcosughes, when they are dead, goe beyond the mountaines towards the setting of the sunne, and ever remaine there in forme of their Oke, with their heads painted with oile and pocones, finely trimmed with feathers, and shall have beades, hatchets, copper, and tobacco, doing nothing but dance and sing, with all their predecessors,