History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts: With Genealogical Registers

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Crosby & Nichols, 1849 - 360 oldal

History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, With Genealogical Registers by Justin Winsor, first published in 1849, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation.

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49. oldal - Baptist, his harbinger, or, if he was ever there* had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the cloak rather than needlessly contend for the coat, though taken away without order. A little chimney is soon fired ; so was the Plymouth Captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper.
206. oldal - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you ; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return eveiy man unto his family.
50. oldal - we know it, but fear him not, neither will we shun him ; but let him begin when he dare, he shall not take us at unawares.
125. oldal - I AB do solemnly and sincerely, in the Presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, upon the true Faith of a Christian, That I will never exercise any Power, Authority, or Influence which I may possess by virtue of the Office of to injure or weaken the Protestant Church as it is by Law established in England...
72. oldal - Forasmuch as the maintenance of good literature doth much tend to the advancement of the weal and flourishing state of societies and republics, this Court doth therefore order, that in whatever township in this government, consisting of fifty families or upwards, any meet man shall be obtained to teach a grammar school, such township shall allow at least twelve pounds, to be raised by rate on all the inhabitants.
234. oldal - They shall call the people unto the mountain; There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness : For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, And of treasures hid in the sand.
25. oldal - Scenes must be beautiful, which daily viewed Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.
71. oldal - the court did freely give and grant all such profits as might or should accrue annually to the colony for fishing with nets or seines, at cape Cod, for mackerel, bass, or herring, to be improved for and towards a free school in some town of this jurisdiction, for the training up of youth in literature for the good and benefit of posterity, provided a beginning be made within one year after said grant,
29. oldal - I now advise you to prepare for your departure as soon as possible, but me ye shall bring to the promontory, where I thought it good to dwell ; it may be that it was a prophetic word that fell from my mouth about my abiding there for a season ; there shall ye bury me, and plant a cross at my head, and another at my feet, and call the place KROSS-A-NES (Crossness) in all time coming.
51. oldal - But now if this be merely from an human spirit, there is cause to fear that by occasion, especially of provocation, there may be wanting that tenderness of the life of man (made after God's image) which is meet.

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