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... abroad , —the Puritan colony rapidly grew in num- bers and influence . The despotism of Charles I. and the persecution instigated by Archbishop Laud drove some of the best people of England to seek religious and polit- ical freedom in ...
... abroad , —the Puritan colony rapidly grew in num- bers and influence . The despotism of Charles I. and the persecution instigated by Archbishop Laud drove some of the best people of England to seek religious and polit- ical freedom in ...
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... abroad . Day speaks to day , knowledge night hath to night declar'd . There neither speach nor language is , where their voyce is not heard . Through all the earth their line is gone forth , & unto the utmost end of all the world ...
... abroad . Day speaks to day , knowledge night hath to night declar'd . There neither speach nor language is , where their voyce is not heard . Through all the earth their line is gone forth , & unto the utmost end of all the world ...
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... abroad ; and only his father's death prevented his running away from home and going to sea . He was afterwards bound as an apprentice to Thomas Sendall , a prominent merchant of Lynn ; but his rest- less disposition could not be ...
... abroad ; and only his father's death prevented his running away from home and going to sea . He was afterwards bound as an apprentice to Thomas Sendall , a prominent merchant of Lynn ; but his rest- less disposition could not be ...
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... abroad that the colonies existed solely for the benefit of the mother country . Consequently , the measures of government were adopted , not for the welfare of the colonies , but for the profit of England . This unjust policy naturally ...
... abroad that the colonies existed solely for the benefit of the mother country . Consequently , the measures of government were adopted , not for the welfare of the colonies , but for the profit of England . This unjust policy naturally ...
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... abroad as a philosopher . Besides a number of new experi- ments invented by him , he was the first to point out clearly the existence of positive and negative electricity , and by his well- known experiment with the kite to prove the ...
... abroad as a philosopher . Besides a number of new experi- ments invented by him , he was the first to point out clearly the existence of positive and negative electricity , and by his well- known experiment with the kite to prove the ...
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