Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 20

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Primarily consists of: Transactions, v. 1, 3, 5-8, 10-14, 17-21, 24-28, 32, 34-35, 38, 42-43; and: Collections, v. 2, 4, 9, 15-16, 22-23, 29-31, 33, 36-37, 39-41; also includes lists of members.

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Page 366 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 122 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 122 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Page 272 - A | DECLARATION | of the SAD and GREAT ] Persecution and Martyrdom | of the People of God, called | QUAKERS, in NEW ENGLAND, | for the "Worshipping of God.
Page 39 - April next, and that, at two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, you be taken thence to the place of execution, and there be hanged by the neck till you are dead! dead! dead ! And may the Almighty God have mercy on your soul...
Page 76 - ... against the peace of our sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen, and against the form of the statute in that case made and provided.
Page 112 - twas not a time for NE to dance. Mr. Mather struck at the Root, speaking against mixt Dances.
Page 124 - And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle ; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men: and they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions : And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
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Page 103 - As the fire began in the middle or second story, the records, books, papers, furniture, pictures of the kings and queens, &c., which were in the Council Chamber, the Chamber of the House of Representatives, and the apartments thereof in that story, were consumed, as were also the books and papers in the offices of the upper story.

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