Virginia Cousins: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode of Whitby, a Virginia Colonist of the Seventeenth Century, with Notes Upon Related Families, a Key to Southern Genealogy and a History of the English Surname Gode, Goad, Goode Or Good from 1148 to 1887

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J. W. Randolph & English, 1887 - 538 páginas
The author's proof of his book with a list of autograph corrections and a review of the book tipped in after the text.
 

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Página 47 - Christ, who gave himself to be an atonement for my sins, and is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them, and who I trust, will not reject me, a returning, penitent sinner, when I come to him for mercy.
Página 39 - A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men.
Página 46 - And took a long farewell, and wished in vain For seats like these beyond the western main, And shuddering still to face the distant deep, Returned and wept, and still returned to weep.
Página 46 - To new-found worlds, and wept for others' woe ; But for himself, in conscious virtue brave, He only wish'd for worlds beyond the grave. His lovely daughter, lovelier in her tears, The fond companion of his helpless years, Silent went next, neglectful of her charms, And left a lover's for a father's arms.
Página 47 - In the name of God, Amen. I, Daniel Hinsdale of Hartford in the County of Hartford, and state of Connecticut, being through the abundant Mercy and Goodness of God, tho weak in body, yet of a sound and Perfect understanding and memory, Do constitute this my Last will and testament and Desire it may be Received by all as such...
Página 80 - Conference acknowledge that slavery is contrary to the laws of God, man, and nature, and hurtful to society; contrary to the dictates of conscience and pure religion, and doing that which we would not others should do to us and ours?
Página 271 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Página 12 - O'er hills and mountains thrown ; while thro' the dales, The downs, the slopes, ran lavish and distinct The purple realm of olives ; as with hues Distinct, though various still the landscape swells, Where blooms the dulcet apple, mid the tufts Of trees diverse that blend their joyous shades.
Página 326 - ... gentlemen on the other side rise to the height of this great argument of patriotism? Is the bosom of the country always to be torn with this miserable sectional debate whenever a Presidential election is pending? To that great debate of half a century before secession there were left no adjourned questions. The victory of the North was absolute, and God knows the submission of the South was complete.
Página 194 - States, or the five of them now moving, banded together in one government, and united as they are soon to be, would defy the world in arms, much less the Northern States of this Confederacy. Fighting on our own soil, in defense of our own sacred rights and honor, we could not be conquered, even by the combined forces of all the other States; and sagacious, sensible men in the SPEECHES OF DAVIS AND WIGFALL. 81 Northern States would understand that too •well to make the effort.

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