The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Band 2American Historical Society, 1920 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American Aquidneck army Assembly Baptist Church Barrington Bay Colony Bishop Block Island Boston Bristol British Brown built called Captain century charter civil Coddington Colonel Colony of Rhode command committee Congregational Church Congress Connecticut Constitution Court declared Deputy Governor elected England English Episcopal erected established faith founders freemen Gaspee George Governor Dorr held honor Hopkins hundred Indian James John Clarke land liberty Little Compton Massachusetts meeting house miles minister Narragansett Bay Narragansett country Nathanael Greene negro Newport North organized pastor patriotic Pawtucket Plymouth Plymouth Colony Portsmouth Providence public schools Puritan Quaker regiment religious Rhode Island Colony Roger Williams sachem Salem Samuel Samuel Ward school houses sent session settlers slave slavery South Kingstown spirit Stephen Hopkins teachers Thomas Thomas Wilson Dorr tion town troops vessels voted Warwick William Coddington women worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 436 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Seite 782 - ... of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and...
Seite 773 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Seite 773 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment...
Seite 436 - ... freely and fully have and enjoy his and their own judgments and consciences, in matters of religious concernments...
Seite 433 - America; and that, by the same name, they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall and may be persons able and capable, in the law, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to answer, and be answered unto, to defend and...
Seite 714 - The best in the world. They submitted willingly to the government of the Crown, and paid, in all their courts, obedience to acts of parliament. Numerous as the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by this country at the expence only of a little pen, ink and paper.
Seite 803 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Seite 604 - We will not say as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell, Babylon! Farewell, Rome ! but we will say, Farewell, dear England ! Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there...
Seite 433 - ... for the better ordering and managing of the affairs and business of the said company, and their successors, there shall be one governor, one deputy governor, and ten assistants, to be from time to time constituted, elected, and chosen out of the freemen of the said Company for the time being, in such manner and form as is hereafter in these presents expressed...