The Apprenticeship of Washington: And Other Sketches of Significant Colonial Personages

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Moffat, Yard, 1909 - 233 páginas
 

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Página 198 - We will not say as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell, Babylon! Farewell, Rome ! but we will say, Farewell, dear England ! Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there...
Página 53 - ... wholly to reading and writing, and had written many books. Her husband, being very loving and tender of her, was loath to grieve her; but he saw his error, when it was too late. For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way and calling to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had set her.
Página 141 - Lora Standish is my name. Lord, guide my heart that I may do thy will; Also fill my hands with such convenient skill As will conduce to virtue void of shame, And I will give the glory to thy name.
Página 105 - Short of stature he was, but strongly built and athletic, Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested, with muscles and sinews of iron ; Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was already Flaked with patches of snow, as hedges sometimes in November.
Página 216 - This was our Church, till we built a homely thing like a barne, set upon cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge and earth...
Página 216 - If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God ; if any man minister, let him, do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Página 33 - ... great courage, and strove to rally their troops, but in vain. The men lost all sense of discipline, fired so wildly that they did more harm to their own side than to the enemy, and then fled, leaving their artillery, provisions, and baggage. The colonial troops alone behaved well ; Washington himself had two horses shot under him, and four bullets through his coat, and yet was unhurt. The total loss in killed an'd wounded was over seven hundred, while that of the enemy did not amount to one hundred....
Página 111 - ... as we were sore athirst. About ten o'clock we came into a deep valley, full of brush, wood-gaile, and long grass, through which we found little paths or tracks, and there we saw a deer, and found springs of fresh water, of which we were heartily glad, and sat us down and drunk our first New England water with as much delight as ever we drunk drink in all our lives.
Página 212 - What shall I say? But thus we lost him that in all his proceedings made justice his first guide and experience his second; ever hating...
Página 104 - ... the collops of their flesh in their sight whilst they live, with other cruelties horrible to be related.

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