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... honorable citizens , yeomen ready to do service for their country and for their faith . The Burns family is of Scotch origin , whose annals are lost in the oblivion of border war- fare and antiquity . The pioneer an- cestor , John Burns ...
... honorable citizens , yeomen ready to do service for their country and for their faith . The Burns family is of Scotch origin , whose annals are lost in the oblivion of border war- fare and antiquity . The pioneer an- cestor , John Burns ...
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... honorable Congress attending Mass in a Body in ye Roman Catholic Chappel at Phila- delphia ? Must it not be equal mock- ery in them to pretend to represent and act for the United Protestant States ? " The third charge was that he had ...
... honorable Congress attending Mass in a Body in ye Roman Catholic Chappel at Phila- delphia ? Must it not be equal mock- ery in them to pretend to represent and act for the United Protestant States ? " The third charge was that he had ...
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... Honorable Court that that part of their Petition shall think it proper and that they be sett may be rejected if in ... Honorable Council and House of Representatives in General Court assembled at Boston Jany . 1. 1738 . May it please ...
... Honorable Court that that part of their Petition shall think it proper and that they be sett may be rejected if in ... Honorable Council and House of Representatives in General Court assembled at Boston Jany . 1. 1738 . May it please ...
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... honorable men who have speculated , and have hung on the slippery edge of the abyss of dis- honor until they have failed . These men have tried to keep a footing by means desperate and discreditable , in hopes to avert the evil day ...
... honorable men who have speculated , and have hung on the slippery edge of the abyss of dis- honor until they have failed . These men have tried to keep a footing by means desperate and discreditable , in hopes to avert the evil day ...
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... honorable man to lose all , and make a clean breast of his folly . His only regret is that he may have cast his character after his fortune into the vortex of speculation . But if he hasn't done any act of overt crimi- nality , he has ...
... honorable man to lose all , and make a clean breast of his folly . His only regret is that he may have cast his character after his fortune into the vortex of speculation . But if he hasn't done any act of overt crimi- nality , he has ...
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Page 137 - Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.
Page 278 - THAT, AND A' THAT. Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that ; The coward slave — we pass him by ! We dare be poor for a
Page 20 - The Young Men's Christian Associations seek to unite those young men who, regarding Jesus Christ as their God and Saviour, according to the Holy Scriptures, desire to be his disciples in their doctrine and in their life, and to associate their efforts for the extension of his kingdom among young men.
Page 257 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art or dictated by force; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts.
Page 175 - THERE is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; But nations swell the funeral cry, And Triumph weeps above the brave. For them is Sorrow's purest sigh O'er Ocean's heaving bosom sent : In vain their bones unburied lie, All earth becomes their monument ! A tomb is theirs on every page, An epitaph on every tongue : The present hours, the future age, For them bewail, to them belong. For...
Page 65 - Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England...
Page 226 - That the said Barnet shall erect a House on the Land where Mr. Ezekiel Cheever Lately dwelt, of forty foot Long Twenty foot wide and Twenty foot stud with four foot Rise in the Roof, to make a cellar floor under one half of Sd house and to build a Kitchen of Sixteen foot in Length and twelve foot in breadth with a Chamber therein, and to Lay the floors flush through out the maine house and to make three paire of Stayers in y...
Page 20 - That as these organizations bear the name of Christian and profess to be engaged directly in the Saviour's service, so it is clearly their duty to maintain the control and management of all their affairs in the hands of those who profess to love and publicly avow their faith in Jesus, the Redeemer, as divine, and who testify their faith by becoming and remaining members of churches held to be evangelical, and that such persons and none others should be allowed to vote or hold office.
Page 257 - Missouri will see them succeed one another and multiply, truly worthy of the regard and care of Providence, in the bosom of equality, under just laws, freed from the errors of superstition and bad government.
Page 196 - Groton stores for some years before and after myself, no one else, to my knowledge, escaped the bog or slough ; and my escape I trace to the simple fact of my having put a restraint upon my appetite. We five boys were in the habit, every forenoon, of making a drink compounded of rum, raisins, sugar, nutmeg, &c., with biscuit, — all palatable to eat and drink.