The Vine of Sibmah: A Relation of the Puritans

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Macmillan, 1906 - 432 pages
 

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Page 181 - ... it is therefore ordered, that the said Mr. Williams shall depart out of this jurisdiction within six weeks now next ensuing, which if he neglect to perform, it shall be lawful for the governor and two of the magistrates to send him to some place out of this jurisdiction, not to return any more without license from the Court.
Page 117 - But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the Lord your God, saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: and now therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Judah.
Page 337 - O My dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let Me see thy countenance, let Me hear thy voice ; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
Page 158 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.
Page 404 - Tribune. At the Sign of the Fox " Her little pictures of country life are fragrant with a genuine love of nature, and there is fun as genuine in her notes on rural character. A travelling pieman is one of her most lovable personages ; another is Tatters, a dog, who is humanly winsome and wise, and will not soon be forgotten by the reader of this very entertaining book.
Page 401 - Its charm is of the old times instead of the new. Instead of rollicking cowboys riding half a day to meet a
Page 401 - ... never quite were — but it is very delightful reading for all that."— New York Times. YOLANDA MAID OF BURGUNDY By CHARLES MAJOR Author of " Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall," " When Knighthood was in Flower,
Page 181 - Whereas Mr. Roger Williams, one of the elders of the church of Salem, hath broached and divulged divers new and dangerous opinions, against the authority of magistrates ; as also writ letters of defamation, both of the magistrates and churches...
Page 2 - Nemo debet seipsum prodere! I am an Englishman, and I ought not to be taken, nor imprisoned, nor called in question, nor put to answer but according to the law of the land." Foster, CJ " You are here required to take the oath of allegiance, and when you have done that, you shall be heard.

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