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Stran 194 - Massachusetts to render it necessary to say a word of him personally. He was the leading advocate in the western and middle parts of the State at the bar, and a zealous champion in the cause of the oppressed. Though the names of the counsel who were opposed to them may be less generally known or remembered, they were men of high rank and reputation. Mr. Stearns was of Worcester, and about the same professional age as Mr. Lincoln, and in every way a respectable lawyer ; but he died early, before attaining...
Stran 190 - There shall never be any bond slavery, villeinage, or captivity amongst us unless it be lawful captives taken in just wars, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us.
Stran 249 - ART. 2. — They shall pay the current expenses of the Society, drawing on the Treasurer, from time to time, for such sums as may be necessary for that purpose.
Stran 27 - God's grace bound for Genoa, to say Four Hampers being marked and numbered as in the margin, and are to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned, at the aforesaid port of Genoa (the danger of the seas only excepted...
Stran 76 - to occupy or colonize Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America.
Stran 293 - Good," which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by its former possessor, that several leaves of it were torn out; but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than...
Stran 293 - Bonifacius ; an Essay upon the Good, that is to be devised and designed, by those who desire to answer the Great End of Life, and to do Good while they live.
Stran 107 - Act memory. He intended that it should go to augment the treasures of taste and art at Stowe, to whose proprietor (the Duke of Buckingham) he was related. In a green old age, — little short of ninety, — he had some warning of the crash which impended over that magnificent house ; and by a codicil to his will, executed but a few months before his death, he gave his magnificent collection to the British Museum. In the course, I think, of a twelvemonth from that time, every thing that could be sold...
Stran 71 - In 1808 he came to me, as my apprentice, bringing his bundle under his arm, with less than three dollars in his pocket, and this was his fortune. A first-rate business lad he was, but, like other bright lads, needed the careful eye of a senior to guard him from the pit-falls that he was exposed to.
Stran 190 - On the part of the blacks," says Dr. Belknap, " it was pleaded that the Royal Charter expressly declared all persons born or residing in the Province to be as free as the king's subjects in Great Britain ; that, by the laws of England, no man can be deprived of his liberty but by the judgment of his peers ; that the laws of the Province respecting an evil existing, and attempting to mitigate or regulate it, did not authorize it ;