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Page 15 - Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king's face. But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
Page 126 - To prevent and forbid any force or violence to be offered by either of the Plantations of Virginia or Maryland, from one to the other, upon the differences concerning their bounds: the said differences being then under the consideration of Ourself and Council here. Which, for your more full satisfaction, we have thought fit to signify to you ; and rest, " Your loving friend, [OLIVER P...
Page 125 - Whitehall, 26th September, 1655. SIRS, It seems to us by yours of the 29th of June, and by the relation we received by Colonel Bennet, that some mistake or scruple hath arisen concerning the sense of our Letters of the 12th of January last...
Page 33 - Wandesford, as being a statist," a politician, a meddler in state affairs ; " but here with you," he adds, 1 Strafford Papers, vol. ip 16. " I have matters of other guess stuff to relate, — that our harvest is all in, a most fine season to make fish-ponds, our plums all gone and past, peaches, quinces, and grapes almost fully ripe, which will, I trow, hold better relish with a Thistleworth palate, and approve me how to have the skill to serve every man in his right cue. These only we countrymen...
Page 182 - Four Sermons upon the great and indispensable duty of all Christian masters and mistresses to bring up their negro slaves in the knowledge and fear of God.
Page 170 - Maryland, so that their lo'pps humbly offer their opinion that for avoyding further differences the tract of land lying between the river and bay of Delaware and the Eastern sea on the one side, and the Chesapeake bay on the other, be divided into two equall parts by a line from the latitude of Cape Henlopen to the 40th degree of Northern latitude...
Page 53 - ... with the advice, assent, and approbation of the freemen of the province, and with authority to appoint all judges, justices, and constables.
Page 67 - Lewis, it seems, supposed this was read aloud to vex him; — whereupon, getting into a passion, he told them " that it was a falsehood, and came from the devil as all lies did : and that he that writ it was an instrument of the devil, and he would prove it: and that all Protestant ministers were the ministers of the devil," — and he forbade them from reading more.
Page 239 - At length the wintry Horrors disappear, And April views with Smiles the infant Year; The grateful Earth from frosty Chains unbound, Pours out its vernal Treasures all around, Her Face bedeckt with Grass, with Buds the Trees are crown'd. In this soft Season, 'ere the Dawn of Day, I mount my Horse, and lonely take my Way, From woody Hills that shade Patapsco's Head (In whose deep Vales he makes his stony Bed, From whence he rushes with resistless Force, I0 Tho...
Page 125 - Letters, we had intimated that we would have a stop put to the proceedings of those Commissioners who were authorized to settle the Civil Government of Maryland. Which was not at all intended by us ; nor so much as proposed to us by those who made addresses to us to 1655.] LETTER CXL., WHITEHALL.