The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries: Extra number, Issues 33-36W. Abbatt, 1914 - History |
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... leaves us to do That alone which might better be done with the expected Assistance . R. MOUNTGOMERY . OF THE MOTIVES AND FOUNDATION OF THE UNDERTAKING PLANTATIONS of new Countries , says the Great Lord Bacon , are among the Primitive ...
... leaves us to do That alone which might better be done with the expected Assistance . R. MOUNTGOMERY . OF THE MOTIVES AND FOUNDATION OF THE UNDERTAKING PLANTATIONS of new Countries , says the Great Lord Bacon , are among the Primitive ...
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... leave them to the Folly of fixing at Random , and destroying their Interest by indulging their Humour ; So that we have more than ordinary Cause to expect , that in a very short Time , we shall be able to present the solid life its self ...
... leave them to the Folly of fixing at Random , and destroying their Interest by indulging their Humour ; So that we have more than ordinary Cause to expect , that in a very short Time , we shall be able to present the solid life its self ...
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... leave will prove a constant Seminary of sober Servants , of Both Sexes , for the Gentry of the Colony ; where- by they will be under no necessity to use the Dangerous Help of Blackamoors , or Indians ; The Lands set apart for this ...
... leave will prove a constant Seminary of sober Servants , of Both Sexes , for the Gentry of the Colony ; where- by they will be under no necessity to use the Dangerous Help of Blackamoors , or Indians ; The Lands set apart for this ...
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... leaves behind the salt , and that very Salt calcin'd , becomes the pot - ash , and it is pack'd , and sent away in Barrels , made and hoop'd there also . From due consideration of these Circumstances , it appears , that this must be a ...
... leaves behind the salt , and that very Salt calcin'd , becomes the pot - ash , and it is pack'd , and sent away in Barrels , made and hoop'd there also . From due consideration of these Circumstances , it appears , that this must be a ...
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... leave clear the Ground , they grow on , for producing yearly Crops of such Com- modities , as are most profitable , and fittest for the Country . Thus , having faintly touch'd the outward Lines , and given some Prospect of our Purpose ...
... leave clear the Ground , they grow on , for producing yearly Crops of such Com- modities , as are most profitable , and fittest for the Country . Thus , having faintly touch'd the outward Lines , and given some Prospect of our Purpose ...
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Page 155 - LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? who shall dwell in thy holy hill ? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Page 156 - And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim ; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD : and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
Page 170 - The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around and together be laid, And the young and the old, and the low and the high, Shall moulder to dust and together shall lie.
Page 243 - Firm-paced and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm. Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge or death...
Page 244 - In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volley'd thunder flew : — Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime...
Page 170 - tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud — Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud...
Page 273 - No people can claim, no country can appropriate him ; the boon of Providence to the human race, his fame is eternity, and his residence creation. Though it was the defeat of our arms, and the disgrace of our policy, I almost bless the convulsion in which he had his origin. If the heavens thundered and the earth rocked, yet, when the storm...
Page 273 - As a general, he marshalled the peasant into a veteran, and supplied by discipline the absence of experience ; as a statesman, he enlarged the policy of the cabinet into the most comprehensive system of general advantage ; and such was the wisdom of his views, and the philosophy of his counsels, that to the soldier and the statesman he almost added the character of the sage...
Page 170 - They loved, but the story we cannot unfold ; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
Page 170 - The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven, The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust.