Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Band 43The Society, 1910 |
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... tion with the American Antiquarian Society . My own absence in Europe during the larger portion of the time since the June meeting and my return only two days ago , hardly in time to participate in this meeting , have prevented my ...
... tion with the American Antiquarian Society . My own absence in Europe during the larger portion of the time since the June meeting and my return only two days ago , hardly in time to participate in this meeting , have prevented my ...
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... tion , and the duties were not so arduous but that he could find the opportunity and leisure for the historical investigations in which he had become greatly interested . He became a close student of colonial history , and edited with ...
... tion , and the duties were not so arduous but that he could find the opportunity and leisure for the historical investigations in which he had become greatly interested . He became a close student of colonial history , and edited with ...
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... tion started west April 28 , 1834 , by the Oregon Trail , reaching Fort Vancouver in September . These five men were the first American settlers in Oregon . So began our occupation of the territory . Presbyterian missionaries followed ...
... tion started west April 28 , 1834 , by the Oregon Trail , reaching Fort Vancouver in September . These five men were the first American settlers in Oregon . So began our occupation of the territory . Presbyterian missionaries followed ...
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... the Rockies . The next year he was sent out on a second expedi- tion , instructed to connect his first explorations " with the surveys of Commander Wilkes on the coast of the Pacific 28 [ OCT . MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY .
... the Rockies . The next year he was sent out on a second expedi- tion , instructed to connect his first explorations " with the surveys of Commander Wilkes on the coast of the Pacific 28 [ OCT . MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY .
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... tion and a peeuish mind . And I was thereto mooved the sooner , 1. Because the same was in many mens hands already , and so rather publicke than private . 2. We had waited almost a quarter of a yeare for answer , but could not ob- taine ...
... tion and a peeuish mind . And I was thereto mooved the sooner , 1. Because the same was in many mens hands already , and so rather publicke than private . 2. We had waited almost a quarter of a yeare for answer , but could not ob- taine ...
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Seite 243 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Seite 104 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own } but they had all things common.
Seite 245 - And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
Seite 249 - Our northern brethren also, I believe, felt a little tender under those censures; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.
Seite 12 - O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea...
Seite 249 - The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out, in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it...
Seite 310 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Seite 243 - ... he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Seite 330 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Seite 496 - Legislature, abrogating the supreme law which requires us to " do unto others as we would they should do unto us...