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Page 53 - him an understanding heart, that he may know how to go out and come in before this great people ; that he may discern between good and bad. For who is able to judge this thy so great people
Page 89 - has bought And your sons reap the soil which their fathers defended. 'Mid the reign of mild peace, May your nation increase, With the glory of Rome and the wisdom of Greece; And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves.
Page 81 - made his proclamation offering pardon "to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their Arms and return to the Duties of peaceable Subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose Offences were of too flagitious a Nature to admit of any other Consideration than that of condign Punishment.
Page 183 - passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me and thought I made, as I most certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Page 53 - by a sense of the obligations, the important trusts, and numerous duties connected with it. That you may be enabled to discharge them with honour to yourself, with justice and impartiality to your country, and with satisfaction to this great people shall be the daily prayer of your—
Page 53 - The sun is dressed in brightest beams To give thy honours to the day. And may it prove an auspicious prelude to each ensuing season. You have this day to declare yourself head of a nation. 'And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant ruler over the people; give
Page 46 - of our worthy pastor for a reconciliation between our no longer parent state but tyrant state and these Colonies. Let us separate ; they are unworthy to be our brethren. Let us renounce them; and instead of supplications, as formerly, for their prosperity,
Page 253 - how many. When at last he left his room, he rode out and from that time he was incessantly on horseback rambling about the mountain in the least frequented roads and just as often through the woods. In those melancholy rambles, I was his
Page 53 - words of a royal sovereign and not less applicable to him who is invested with the Chief Magistracy of a nation, though he wear not a crown nor the robes of royalty. My thoughts and my meditations are with you, though personally absent; and my petitions to Heaven are that 'the things that make for peace may not be hidden from your
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| Title | The Pioneer Mothers of America: A Record of the More Notable Women of the Early Days of the Country, and Particularly of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods, Volume 3 The Pioneer Mothers of America: A Record of the More Notable Women of the Early Days of the Country, and Particularly of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods, Harry Clinton Green Volume 3 of The Pioneer Mothers of America: A Record of the More Notable Women of the Early Days of the Country, and Particularly of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods, by Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green, Harry Clinton Green |
| Authors | Harry Clinton Green, Mary Wolcott Green |
| Publisher | G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 |
| ISBN | 0722284268, 9780722284261 |
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