Connecticut: A Study of a Commonwealth-democracy

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 - 409 halaman
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Halaman 173 - Bay, where the said River falleth into the Sea, and on the North by the Line of the Massachusetts Plantation ; and on the South by the sea ; and in Longitude as the Line of the Massachusetts Colany, running from East to West, that is to say, from the said Narragansett Bay on the East, to the South sea on the West Part, with 'the Islands thereunto adjoining.
Halaman 307 - Sir, — Nathan Palmer, a lieutenant in your king's service, was taken in my camp as a spy — he was tried as a spy — he was condemned as a spy — and you may rest assured, sir, he shall be hanged as a spy. " I have the honor to be, <fcc., "ISRAEL PUTNAM. "His Excellency Governor Tryon.
Halaman 72 - Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Halaman 389 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased the Almighty God by the wise disposition of his divine providence so to order and dispose of things that we the inhabitants and residents of Windsor...
Halaman vi - They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty ; A stubborn race, fearing and nattering none.
Halaman 387 - These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment, and an immutability of purpose, which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other.
Halaman 164 - Take counsel, execute judgment; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; Hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Halaman 391 - Magestracy which was not propownded in some Generall Courte before, to be nominated the next Election ; and to that end yt shall be lawfull for ech of the Townes aforesaid by their deputyes to nominate any two...
Halaman 70 - Hooker, defended the restriction of the suffrage on the ground that " the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser ; " Hooker replied that " in matters which concern the common good, a general council, chosen by all, to transact businesses which concern all, I conceive most suitable to rule and most safe for relief of the whole.
Halaman 391 - Magestrats for the ensueing yeare, to make up the aforesaid number. 3. It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed, that the Secretary shall not nominate any person nor shall any person...

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