Growth of the English ColoniesRivingtons, 1884 - 125 pages |
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Page 57 - If all the miseries and troublesome affairs of this sorrowful voyage should be perfectly and throughly written, there should need a painful man with his pen, and as great a time as he had that wrote the lives and deaths of the martyrs 2.
Page 18 - Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch, Lest that ill egg bring forth a cocatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice.
Page 19 - Vane presided, has been said to be " the first body in which the people, by their representatives, ever gave their own money to found a place of education.
Page 13 - 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 God keep us from both ! " 2 Thus spoke Massachusetts, and thus spoke Virginia, in that ancient day.
Page 26 - I will not by myself or any other, directly or indirectly, trouble, molest, or discountenance, any person professing to believe in Jesus Christ, for or in respect of religion.
Page 53 - Other stipulations were proposed which, says Thurloe, would have been granted, but with respect to these two Don Alonso de Cardenas was pleased to answer that to ask a liberty from the Inquisition and free sailing in the West Indies was to ask his master's two eyes and that nothing could be done in these points but according to the practice of former times.
Page 17 - It is ordered, that Josias Plastowe shall (for stealing four baskets of corn from the Indians) return them eight baskets again, be fined £5, and hereafter to be called by the name of Josias, and not Mr. as formerly he used to be ; and that William Buckland and Thomas Andrew shall be whipped for being accessary to the same offence.