Scribner's Popular History of the United States: From the Earliest Discoveries of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen to the Present Time, Band 2

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Seite 29 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Seite 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"!
Seite 487 - So that government seems to me a part of religion itself, a thing sacred in its institution and end.
Seite 376 - 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.
Seite 487 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Seite 575 - In which height it pleased God to send us into a fair and good bay, with a good wind to enter the same.
Seite 73 - Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, uecause 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 176 - I was, and set him to play, thinking to vex me thereby ; but while he played, I was moved in the everlasting power of the Lord God to sing ; and my voice drowned the noise of the fiddle, and struck and confounded them, and made them give over fiddling and go their way.
Seite 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...

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