Some Records of Persons by the Name of Worden, Particularly of Over One Thousand of the Ancestors, Kin, and Descendants of John and Elizabeth Worden, of Washington County, Rhode Island: Covering Three Hundred Years, and Comprising Twelve Generations in America ...

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Press of J. R. Cornelius, 1868 - Washington County (R.I.) - 164 pages
The Worden family emigrated before 1639 from England to " ... that narrow section of Cape Cod lying directly north from Nantucket." John Worden (1747-1802) was a direct descendant
 

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Page 3 - Before thy mystic altar, heavenly truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth. Thus let me kneel, till this dull form decay, And life's last shade be brightened by thy ray, Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without bound, without consuming glow.
Page 33 - ... well seized of the premises above conveyed, as of a good, sure, perfect, absolute, and indefeasible estate of inheritance in law, and in fee simple, and have good right, full power, and...
Page 89 - Ill success sometimes arises from a superabundance of qualities in themselves good — from a conscience too sensitive, a taste too fastidious, a self-forgetfulness too romantic, a modesty too retiring. I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that " the world knows nothing of its greatest men...
Page 134 - Jesus, at thy command I launch into the deep; And leave my native land, Where sin lulls all asleep; For thee I would the world resign, And sail to heaven with thee and thine.
Page 123 - ... but on acquaintance, the physiognomist would have been agreeably disappointed. He had so much self-government, that he has been heard to say, that (except when he had the small-pox,) he never found it hard to keep from speaking at any time, if his reason told him it was best to forbear ; and no man possessed finer feelings, or treated the characters of others with more delicacy than he did. He had an exalted idea of the inalienable rights of conscience ; justly appreciated the civil rights of...
Page 33 - I do hereby acknowledge, and myself therewith fully satisfied, contented and paid; and thereof, and of every part and parcel thereof, do...
Page 123 - His many paiuful labors for the salvation of sinners, the peace of the churches, and the purity of the ministers, will never be fully appreciated, until the time when he shall stand before his Judge, and hear the words of his mouth, — ' Well done, good and faithful servant...
Page 123 - But, on aoquaintance, the physiognomist would have been agreeably disappointed. He had so much self-government, that he has been heard to say that — except when he had the small-pox — he never found it hard to keep from speaking at any time...
Page 122 - Light, and too strongly attached to the doctrine of salvation by sovereign grace, to be generally received among the old Baptist churches in Rhode-Island, which had been...
Page 89 - Heaven is said to be a place for those who have not succeeded on earth; and it is surely true that celestial graces do not best thrive and bloom in the hot blaze of worldly prosperity. Ill success sometimes arises from a superabundance of qualities in themselves good — from a conscience too sensitive, a taste too fastidious, a -self-forgetfulriess...

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