The History of Boscawen and Webster [N. H.] from 1733 to 1878 |
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Page xviii - And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her : and the Highest himself shall establish her. 6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there.
Page 171 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page xvii - Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness of alliance with excellence which is departed ; and a consciousness, too, that in its acts and conduct, and even in its sentiments and thoughts, it may be actively operating on the happiness of those who come after it.
Page xvii - We live in the past by a knowledge of its history; and in the future by hope and anticipation. By ascending to an association with our ancestors; by contemplating their example and studying their character; by partaking their sentiments, and imbibing their spirit; by accompanying them in their toils, by sympathizing in their sufferings, and rejoicing in their successes and their triumphs, we mingle our own existence with theirs, and seem to belong to their age.
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Page 227 - That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 159 - But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera...
Page 81 - July in the year of our LORD CHRIST, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Sixty one and in the First year of our Reign. By his Excellency's Command, With advice of Council, B. WENTWORTH. Theodore Atkinson, Secy. Province of New-Ramp™ July 5. 1761 Recorded according the original Charter under the Province Seal. Attest
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