 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 530 strani
...the spring, near which they landed; it is the parent spot, the first inhabited nook of RhodeIsland. To express his unbroken confidence in the mercies...a shelter for persons distressed for conscience." 1 In his new abode Williams could have less leisure for contemplation and study. " My time," he observes... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 strani
...the spring, near which they landed ; it is the parent spot, the first inhabited nook of RhodeIsland. To express his unbroken confidence in the mercies...might be for a shelter for persons distressed for conscience."1 In his new abode Williams could have less leisure for contemplation and study. "My time,"... | |
 | 1837 - 666 strani
...the first inhabited nook of Rhode Island. To express his unbroken confidence in the mercies of God he called the place PROVIDENCE. 'I desired,' said he,...a shelter for persons distressed for conscience.' " * • • "The land which was now occupied by Williams was within the territory of the Narragansett... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 strani
...the Narragansett Bay, encouraging me from the freeness of the place from English claims or patents. 1 took his prudent motion as a voice from God." It was...a shelter for persons distressed for conscience." 1 In his new abode, Williams could have less leisure for contemplation and study. " My time," he observes... | |
 | 1852 - 784 strani
...Island. ' Tradition,' says Mr. Bancroft, the historian of the United States, ' has marked the spot near which they landed ; it is the parent spot, the...a shelter for persons distressed for conscience."' We have ourselves stood on this spot, once so solitary, but now surrounded on nearly every side by... | |
 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1853 - 714 strani
...for cause of conscience is most evidently and lamentably contrary to the doctrine of Christ Jesus." " I desired," said he, " it might be for a shelter for persons distressed for conscience." " He was the first person in modern Christendom to assert, in its plenitude, the doctrines of the liberty... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1854 - 550 strani
...PROVIDENCE. " I desired," said he, " it might be for a shelter for persons distressed for conscience."(l) In his new abode, Williams could have less leisure...contemplation and study. "My time," he observes of himself,—and it is a sufficient apology for the roughness of his style, as a writer on morals,—"... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1855 - 502 strani
...PROVIDENCE. " I desired," said he, " it might be for a shelter for persons distressed for conscience.551 In his new abode, Williams could have less leisure for contemplation and study. "My time,5' he observes of himself, — and it is a sufficient apology for the roughness of his style,... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 500 strani
...the Narragansett Bay, encouraging me from the freeness of the place from English claims or patents. 1 took his prudent motion as a voice from God." It was...a shelter for persons distressed for conscience." 1 In his new abode, Williams could have less leisure for contemplation and study. " My time," he observes... | |
 | James Pinkney Hambleton - 1856 - 550 strani
...* [After being expelled from Massachusetts, Roger Williams went out to seek a home for himself:] " It was in June that the law-giver of Rhode Island,...a shelter for persons distressed for conscience.' " These are taken from examples of American history long before the revolutionary war, and before the... | |
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Island, with five companions, embarked on the stream ; a frail Indian canoe contained the founder of an independent state and its earliest citizens. Tradition has marked the spring near which they landed ; it is the parent spot, the first inhabited nook... 
