A Biographical Dictionary: Containing a Brief Account of the First Settlers, and Other Eminent Characters Among the Magistrates, Ministers, Literary and Worthy Men, in New-Englandby Cushing and Appleton, Salem, and Edward Oliver, no. 70, State street, 1809 - 511 من الصفحات |
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... town of Boston , 1774 , when the Port Bill had an- nihilated their commerce . * Mr. Adams was obliged to leave Durham in the year 1778 , in consequence of other disturbances than religious . He had been thought the most pro- per ...
... town of Boston , 1774 , when the Port Bill had an- nihilated their commerce . * Mr. Adams was obliged to leave Durham in the year 1778 , in consequence of other disturbances than religious . He had been thought the most pro- per ...
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... town was that of tax gatherer ; which the opposite party in politicks often alluded to , and in their con- troversies would style him Samuel the Publican . While the British regiments were in town , the to- ries enjoyed a kind of ...
... town was that of tax gatherer ; which the opposite party in politicks often alluded to , and in their con- troversies would style him Samuel the Publican . While the British regiments were in town , the to- ries enjoyed a kind of ...
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... town . He grew embarrassed in his circumstances , and was assisted , not only by private friends , but by many others who knew him only as a spirited partisan in the cause of liberty . 1 From this time , the whigs were determined to ...
... town . He grew embarrassed in his circumstances , and was assisted , not only by private friends , but by many others who knew him only as a spirited partisan in the cause of liberty . 1 From this time , the whigs were determined to ...
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... town put an end to this savage conduct by calling out the militia ; and soon after the news of the repeal of the stamp act quieted the minds of all classes of people . The taxes upon tea , oil and colours were still more odious to the ...
... town put an end to this savage conduct by calling out the militia ; and soon after the news of the repeal of the stamp act quieted the minds of all classes of people . The taxes upon tea , oil and colours were still more odious to the ...
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... town had been stagnant . The mechanicks were in want of business , and from this they expected gold- en dreams of prosperity . Our politician voted for the adoption of the con- stitution with amendments . He himself proposed one ...
... town had been stagnant . The mechanicks were in want of business , and from this they expected gold- en dreams of prosperity . Our politician voted for the adoption of the con- stitution with amendments . He himself proposed one ...
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الصفحة 207 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
الصفحة 135 - Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work : for I am with you, saith the Lord of Hosts...
الصفحة 252 - We will not say, as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell Babylon — Farewell Rome ; but we will say, Farewell, dear England — Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there...
الصفحة 429 - Baptist, his harbinger, or, if he was ever there* had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the cloak rather than needlessly contend for the coat, though taken away without order. A little chimney is soon fired ; so was the Plymouth Captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper.
الصفحة 252 - Farewell, Babylon ! Farewell, Rome ! But we will say Farewell, dear England ! Farewell, the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there. We do not go to New England as Separatists from the Church of England, though we cannot but separate from the corruptions in it. But we go to practice the positive part of church reformation, and propagate the Gospel in America.
الصفحة 333 - All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
الصفحة 224 - America Painted to the Life. The true history of the Spaniards Proceedings in the Conquests of the Indians, and of their Civil Wars among themselves, from Columbus his first Discovery, to these later Times. As also, Of the Original Undertakings of the Advancement of Plantations into those parts; with a perfect Relation of our English Discoveries, shewing their Beginning, Progress and Continuance, from the Year 1628 to 1658...
الصفحة 157 - Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch ; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice.
الصفحة ii - Eliot, John. A Biographical Dictionary, containing a brief account of the First Settlers and other eminent characters among the Magistrates, Ministers, Literary, and worthy men in New England.
الصفحة 142 - Ms. from 1779 until his death, and acting gov. in 1785. His signature being affixed to all public papers, as speaker of the house, caused him to be regarded in Great Britain as the leader of the Whigs in this country. Dr. Johnson, in his " Taxation no Tyranny," says, " One object of the Americans is said to be to adorn the brows of Mr.