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Página 17 - For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness ; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God.
Página 363 - Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures,- love and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Página 234 - York, and not long afterwards published a collection of essays on " The Nature and Uses of the various Evidences of Revealed Religion.
Página 54 - States, or any other, upon the subject of their public grievances and concerns ; and upon the best means of preserving our resources ; and of defence against the enemy ; and to devise and suggest for adoption by those respective States such measures as they may deem expedient ; and also to take measures, if they shall think...
Página 400 - Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are ; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah have all the praise.
Página 301 - This puts me in mind of a medal I have had a mind to strike since the late great event you give me an account of, representing the United States by the figure of an infant Hercules in his cradle, strangling the two serpents ; and France, by that of Minerva, sitting by as his nurse, with her spear and helmet, and her robe speckled with a few fleur-de-lis.
Página 363 - How seldom, friend, a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains ! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains.
Página 173 - And also, to make, ordain, and establish all manner of orders, laws, directions, instructions, forms, and ceremonies of government and magistracy, fit and necessary for and concerning the government of the said colony and plantation...
Página 261 - THE CHURCH OF THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES ; or, Notices of the Lives and Opinions of the Early Fathers, with special reference to the Doctrine of the Trinity ; illustrating its late origin and gradual formation. Revised and enlarged edition. 8vo, $2.50. Lucy Larcom. BREATHINGS OF THE BETTER LIFE. " Little Classic
Página 232 - This map was undertaken with the approbation and at the request of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and is chiefly composed from draughts, charts, and actual surveys of different parts of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America ; great part of which have been lately taken by their Lordships' orders, and transmitted to this office by the Governors of the said Colonies and others.

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