An Oration Delivered at Malden, on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town, May 23, 1849Geo. C. Rand & Company, 1850 - 53 strani |
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Stran 13 - Johnson, who, to use the words of an early historian of the country, ' came from a paradise of plenty and pleasure in the family of a noble earl, into a wilderness of wants...
Stran 9 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Stran 24 - Watertown and Roxbury had leave to remove whither they pleased, so as they continued under this government. The occasion of their desire to remove was, for that all towns in the bay began to be much straitened by their own nearness to one another, and their cattle being so much increased.
Stran 47 - Catholics, indeed, were held to be scarcely within the pale of Christian charity. But the clergy of the fallen Anglican Church were suffered to celebrate their worship on condition that they would abstain from preaching about politics.
Stran 14 - pretend right of inheritance to all or any part of the lands granted in our patent, we pray you endeavor to purchase their tytle, that we may avoid the least scruple of intrusion.
Stran 41 - ... uprightness of the Continental Congress ; with pleasure we recollect that this affair is under their direction : — and we now instruct you, Sir, to give them the strongest assurance, that if they should declare America to be a Free and Independent Republic, your constituents will support and defend the measure to the LAST DROP OF THEIR BLOOD AND THE LAST FARTHING OF THEIR TREASURE.
Stran 26 - A voyage to Bermuda somewhat improved, but did not completely restore, his health. When unable to preach, he devoted much time to writing for the " edification of such readers as are for plain truths, dressed up in a plain metre." * His principal poetical production, entitled the " Day of Doom," had no small celebrity at the time, passing through several editions, both in England and in this country. From another, entitled " A Short Discourse on Eternity," I will recite a few stanzas as a specimen...
Stran 47 - They interdicted under heavy penalties the use of the Book of Common Prayer, not only in churches, but even in private houses. It was a crime in a child to read by the bedside of a sick parent one of those beautiful collects which had soothed the griefs of forty generations of Christians.
Stran 19 - ... the wilderness and the solitary place to be glad, and the desert to bud and blossom as the rose.
Stran 48 - Amongst others that arrived at Salem, at their own cost, were Ralph Sprague with his brethren Richard and William, who, with three or four more, by joint consent and approbation of Mr. John Endicott, Governor...