The Colonial Era in AmericaSampson Low, Marston, 1892 - 348 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Albany America Andros appointed arrived Assembly attack authority Baltimore became body Boston Carolina Charles Charles II charter Church of England coast colonists colony Commissioners Connecticut contest Council Court Delaware deputies Dudley Duke of York Dutch early East Jersey ecclesiastical emigrants Endicott English ernor established expedition France French Governor grant Haven Haven colony House hundred Indians inhabitants James Jamestown Jersey John King land laws leader Leisler liberty London Lord magistrates Maryland Massachu Massachusetts ment ministers natives negroes North Oglethorpe Parliament party patent Penn Pennsylvania persons planted Plymouth Plymouth Colony Plymouth Company political Proprietary Protestant province Puritan Quakers quit-rents refused religion religious Rhode Island River Roger Williams Roman Catholic royal sailed sent settlement settlers setts ships South South Carolina Spain Spanish spirit territory tion town trade tribe vessels Virginia voyage West William Winthrop York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 101 - I will make them conform, or I will harry them out of the land, or else worse,"
Seite 290 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Seite 110 - ... we desire you would be pleased to take notice of the principals and body of our Company, as those who esteem it our honor to call the Church of England, from whence we rise, our dear mother ; and cannot part from our native Country, where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart and many tears in our eyes...
Seite 94 - ... ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have...
Seite 51 - 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 viii - In its foundation it is federal, not national ; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the. government are drawn, it is partly federal, and partly national ; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal ; in the extent of them again, it is federal, not national ; and finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments, it is neither wholly federal, nor wholly national.
Seite 93 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.
Seite 93 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Seite 93 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission...
Seite 304 - Pretender, and is much above ninety years old ; the finest figure you ever saw. He perfectly realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great, his knowledge of the world extensive, and his faculties as bright as ever...