Hall Ancestry

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G. P. Putnam's sons, 1896 - 507 ページ
 

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352 ページ - For my own part, there was not a moment during the revolution, when I would not have given everything I possessed for a restoration to the state of things before the contest began, provided we could have had a sufficient security for its continuance.
101 ページ - We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he shall help, will .submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
7 ページ - For whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth liberal sciences, and to be short, who can live idly and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, for that is the title which men give to esquires and other gentlemen, and shall be taken for a gentleman...
360 ページ - Ordinance, we obtained the grant of near 5,000,000 of acres of land, amounting to three millions and a half of dollars, one million and a half of acres for the Ohio Company, and the remainder for a private speculation, in which many of the principal characters in America are concerned. Without connecting this speculation, similar terms and advantages could not have been obtained for the Ohio Company.
161 ページ - Of this inglorious act Chauncey was soon ashamed ; and to the end of his days he lacerated himself for it, even saying in his will that he kept ever before him his " many sinful compliances with . . . vile human inventions, and will-worship, and hell-bred superstitions, and patcheries stitched into the service of the Lord which the English 1 " Chauncey Memorials," 12. mass-book . . . and the Ordination of Priests . . . are fully fraught withal.
248 ページ - In superscribing the two letters, the one for the church was directed to the tenant, and the one for the tenant to the church. The church was convened to hear the advice which was to settle all their disputes. The moderator read as follows : You will see to the repair of the fences, that they be built high and strong, and you will take special care of the old black bull.
483 ページ - Why then, God's soldier be he ! Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish them to a fairer death.
100 ページ - Whereas the opinions and revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson have seduced and. led into dangerous errors many of the people here in New England, insomuch as there is just cause of suspicion that they, as others in Germany in former times, may, upon some revelation, make some...
249 ページ - This mystical advice puzzled the church at first; but an interpreter among the more discerning ones was soon found, who said, Brethren, this is the very advice we most need ; the direction to repair the fences, is to admonish us to take good heed in the admission and government of our members ; we must guard the church by our Master's laws, and keep out strange cattle from the fold. And we must in a particular manner set a watchful guard over the Devil, the old black bull, who has done so much hurt...
1 ページ - ... ancestors. Of these he hath two in the first ascending degree, his own parents ; he hath four in the second, the parents of his father and the parents of his mother ; he hath eight in the third, the parents of his two grandfathers and two grandmothers ; and by the same rule of progression, he hath an hundred and twenty-eight in the seventh ; a thousand and twenty-four in the tenth ; and at the twentieth degree, or the distance of twenty generations, every man hath above a million of ancestors,...

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