History of Conway (Massachusetts) 1767-1917, Stran 3

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Charles Stanley Pease
Springfield printing and binding Company, 1917 - 345 strani
 

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Stran 158 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those that order the prudentials of the town shall appoint...
Stran 158 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...
Stran 158 - To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers," it was ordered in all the Puritan colonies " that every township, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read; and...
Stran 174 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Stran 203 - Consciences, and, above all, as you will answer to God himself, that you will hasten and encourage, by all possible Means. the Enlistment of Men to form the Army, and send them forward to Head-quarters at Cambridge, with tha' expedition which the vast Importance and instant Urgency of the affair demands.
Stran 200 - ... he that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.
Stran 203 - by all that is dear, by all that is sacred ; we beg and entreat, as you will answer it to your country, to your consciences, and, above all, to God himself, that you will hasten and encourage by all possible means the enlistment of men to form the army, and send them forward to head-quarters at Cambridge with that expedition which the vast importance and instant...
Stran 58 - ... secure the enemical persons called Tories among us. Then the question was put, whether we would draw a line between the Continent and Great Britain ; voted in the affirmative.
Stran 158 - ... all such, children, as shall resort to him, to write and read, whose wages shall be paid, either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those...
Stran 305 - ... was the last man that was left of those that came over in the shipp called the May Flower, that lived in Plymouth; hee was with honor intered att the towne of Plymouth on the 25 of February, 1672.

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