History of New England ...: History of New England from the revolution of the seventeenth century, to the revolution of the eighteenth

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Little, Brown, and Company, 1875

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Halaman 238 - General and Commander in Chief of the Militia and of all the Forces by Sea and Land within our Colony of Connecticut...
Halaman 231 - Connecticut, wherein youth may be instructed in the arts and sciences, who through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for public employment both in church and civil state...
Halaman 443 - Twas nigh unto Pigwacket, on the eighth day of May, They spied a rebel Indian soon after break of day; He on a bank was walking, upon a neck of land, Which leads into a pond, as we're made to understand. Our men resolved to have him, and travelled two miles round Until they met the Indian, who boldly stood his ground; Then spake up Captain Lovewell, "Take you good heed," says he, "This rogue is to decoy us, I very plainly see.
Halaman 443 - Robbins, and wounded good young Frye, Who was our English chaplain : he many Indians slew, And some of them he scalped when bullets round him flew.
Halaman 498 - Government, whereby Bills of Credit may be struck or issued in lieu of Money, without a Clause be inserted in such Act, declaring that the same shall not take Effect until the said Act shall have been approved and confirmed by Us, Our Heirs or Successors.
Halaman 18 - To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.
Halaman 318 - Court, made and passed in the year 1650, which has not been repealed or nulled, — the President and Fellows of the said College are directed, from time to time, to regulate themselves according to the rules of the Constitution by the said Act prescribed, and to exercise the powers and authorities thereby granted for the government of that House, and the support thereof.
Halaman 406 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Halaman 263 - About sun an hour high, we were all carried out of the house for a march, and saw many of the houses of my neighbors in flames, perceiving the whole fort, one house excepted, to be taken.
Halaman 242 - No reliance was to be placed on the correctness of the copy of their laws, which, agreeably to a demand of the Board of Trade, had been transmitted to England. " Government have taken all this time to prune and polish them, yet I believe the world never saw such a parcel of fustian They have never erected nor encouraged any schools of learning, or had the means of instruction by a learned orthodox ministry The generality of the people are shamefully ignorant, and all manner of licentiousness and...

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