A Popular History of the United States: From the First Discovery of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen, to the End of the Civil War, Preceded by a Sketch of the Pre-historic Period and the Age of the Mound Builders, Količina 2

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C. Scribner's Sons, 1881
 

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Stran 292 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Stran 486 - Son William, if you and your friends keep to your plain way of preaching, and keep to your plain way of living, you will make an end of the priests to the end of the world.
Stran 73 - And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house : and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
Stran 87 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Stran 378 - Whereas, the plantations in New England have, by the blessing of the Almighty, had good and prosperous success, without any public charge to this state, and are now likely to prove very happy for the propagation of the Gospel in those parts, and very beneficial and commodious to this kingdom and nation ; the Commons now assembled in Parliament, &c.
Stran 493 - But in liberality they excel; nothing is too good for their friend: give them a fine gun, coat, or other thing, it may pass twenty hands before it sticks: light of heart, strong affections, but soon spent: the most merry creatures that live, feast and dance perpetually; they never have much, nor want much: wealth circulateth like the blood, all parts partake; and though none shall want what another hath, yet exact observers of property.
Stran 174 - I sate still. And it was said, All things come by Nature. And the elements and stars came over me; so that I was in a manner quite clouded with it...
Stran 113 - Company, and their successors ; and, from time to time, to make, ordain, constitute or repeal, such laws, statutes, orders and ordinances, forms and ceremonies of government and magistracy, as to them shall seem meet, for the good and welfare of the said Company, and for the government and ordering of the lands and here8 CHARTER.
Stran 182 - Take heed ye break not our ecclesiastical laws, for .then ye are sure to stretch by a halter.
Stran 292 - But I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years...

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