A Discourse Delivered at Providence, August 5, L836: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Being the Second Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of ProvidenceB. Cranston, 1836 - 72 páginas |
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... honor to be , Very respectfully , your ob't serv'ts , THOMAS B. FENNER , AMHERST EVERETT , JOSEPH CADY , W. R. STAPLES , THOMAS H. WEBB , Committee of the City Council . Committee of the Historical Society . GENTLEMEN : Providence ...
... honor to be , Very respectfully , your ob't serv'ts , THOMAS B. FENNER , AMHERST EVERETT , JOSEPH CADY , W. R. STAPLES , THOMAS H. WEBB , Committee of the City Council . Committee of the Historical Society . GENTLEMEN : Providence ...
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... hundred years , and now constituting , not the reproach of a small , despised , and persecuted colony , but the glory and happiness of millions of freemen . To commemorate this event , to honor this founder , DISCOURSE. ...
... hundred years , and now constituting , not the reproach of a small , despised , and persecuted colony , but the glory and happiness of millions of freemen . To commemorate this event , to honor this founder , DISCOURSE. ...
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... honor this founder , to dwell on some passages of our history which may help us to appreciate the perils , toils , and sufferings of the Narragansett pilgrims , to discharge a portion of that debt which is due to the memory of our ...
... honor this founder , to dwell on some passages of our history which may help us to appreciate the perils , toils , and sufferings of the Narragansett pilgrims , to discharge a portion of that debt which is due to the memory of our ...
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... honors , then , should cluster around his name , who , in an age when the most enlightened failed to perceive the ... honor of having first introduced this principle in their settlement ? Maryland was founded before the settlement of ...
... honors , then , should cluster around his name , who , in an age when the most enlightened failed to perceive the ... honor of having first introduced this principle in their settlement ? Maryland was founded before the settlement of ...
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... honored Governor , Mr. Winthrop , privately wrote to me to steer my course to the Narragansett Bay and Indians , for many high and heavenly and public ends , encouraging me from the freeness of the place from any English claims or ...
... honored Governor , Mr. Winthrop , privately wrote to me to steer my course to the Narragansett Bay and Indians , for many high and heavenly and public ends , encouraging me from the freeness of the place from any English claims or ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admitted advice aforesaid Aquetneck Assembly Assistants authority banishment Benedict Arnold Boston Brown called Canonicus and Miantinomo Catholics Chad Brown charge Chief Sachems church of Salem civil things claimed Commissioners Connecticut Constitution Court deed disposed elected English favor freemen friends Governor granted gratuity honor Indians inhabitants of Providence island John Clarke John Coggeshall John Greene John Throckmorton jurisdiction king Knowles laws letter liams liberty of conscience Lord loving magistrates Massachusetts meadows ment ministers Moshassuck Narragansett Bay natives neighbors New-England Newport Nicholas Easton opinions Pawtucket Pawtuxet lands Pawtuxet river peace Pequod Plymouth Portsmouth present principle procuring Providence and Warwick Providence Plantations Pumham purchase ragansett received religious Rhode Richard Waterman Roger Wil Roger Williams Samuel Gorton Savage's Winthrop says Winthrop Seekonk settlement of Providence Sir Henry Vane thirty pounds Thomas Angell Thomas Olney tion town of Providence Uncas United Colonies unto William Coddington William Harris
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Página 11 - Sixthly, it is the will and command of God that (since the coming of his Son the Lord Jesus) a permission of the most paganish, Jewish, Turkish, or antichristian consciences and worships, be granted to all men in all nations and countries...
Página 33 - We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he shall help, will .submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
Página 15 - I charge you before God, and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal any thing to you by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it, as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded, I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Página 67 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Página 9 - So absolute (says he) was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved, by the Puritans alone ; and it was to this sect that the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution.
Página 19 - He justified both these letters, and maintained all his opinions; and, being offered further conference or disputation, and a month's respite, he chose to dispute presently.
Página 27 - We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a town fellowship, and such others whom they shall admit unto them, only in civil things.
Página 46 - In due Consideration of the said Premises, the said Robert Earl of Warwick, Governor in Chief, and Lord High Admiral of the said Plantations, and the greater Number of the said Commissioners, whose Names and Seals are...
Página 52 - Quakers (so called) which are now among us, we have no law among us whereby to punish any for only declaring by words, &c. their minds and understandings concerning the things and ways of God, as to salvation and an eternal condition.
Página 21 - When I was unkindly and unchristianly, as I believe, driven from my house and land and wife and children, (in the midst of a New England winter, now about thirty-five years past,) at Salem, that ever honored Governor, Mr.