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... Connecticut . There was much religious freedom , and no persecution for opinion's sake ; so that persecuted people often took refuge in Maine . But , on the other hand , the nearness to Cana- da was a disadvantage ; because the French ...
... Connecticut . There was much religious freedom , and no persecution for opinion's sake ; so that persecuted people often took refuge in Maine . But , on the other hand , the nearness to Cana- da was a disadvantage ; because the French ...
Page 71
... Connecticut was first explored by one of the early Dutch navigators , Adrian Block , who was the first European to sail through Hurlgate . This was in 1614 ; and the island called Block Island still bears the name of the bold sailor ...
... Connecticut was first explored by one of the early Dutch navigators , Adrian Block , who was the first European to sail through Hurlgate . This was in 1614 ; and the island called Block Island still bears the name of the bold sailor ...
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... Connecticut Colony was made , permitting all men to vote who had taken the oath of allegiance to the commonwealth . The name of the colony was taken from that of the river ; and it is said to mean " Long River . " While this colony was ...
... Connecticut Colony was made , permitting all men to vote who had taken the oath of allegiance to the commonwealth . The name of the colony was taken from that of the river ; and it is said to mean " Long River . " While this colony was ...
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson. year , united with the Connecticut Colony ; and they both went on prospering , being only visited by such troubles as attacked all the New England colonies together . These troubles must be told in a separate ...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson. year , united with the Connecticut Colony ; and they both went on prospering , being only visited by such troubles as attacked all the New England colonies together . These troubles must be told in a separate ...
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... Connecticut appeared to do the same ; but a brave man , William Wadsworth , took the charter , and hid it in a hollow tree . Sir Edmund Andros was very angry and took the book of records of the Connecticut Colony , and wrote under it ...
... Connecticut appeared to do the same ; but a brave man , William Wadsworth , took the charter , and hid it in a hollow tree . Sir Edmund Andros was very angry and took the book of records of the Connecticut Colony , and wrote under it ...
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Page 316 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Page 370 - Round Table. With Biographical Introduction. The Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend. By Sir THOMAS BROWNE, Knt Ballad Poetry of the Affections. By ROBERT BUCHANAN. Coleridge's Christabel, and other Imaginative Poems. With Preface by ALGERNON C. SWINBURNE. Lord Chesterfield's Letters, Sentences and Maxims. With Introduction by the Editor, and Essay on Chesterfield by M. De Ste.-Beuve, of the French Academy.
Page 301 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 353 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Page 369 - De Joinville's St. Louis, King of France. The Essays of Abraham Cowley, including all his Prose Works. Abdallah ; or the Four Leaves. By EDOUARD LABOULLAYE.
Page 160 - Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third" — " Treason !" cried the speaker — " Treason, treason !" echoed from every part of the house.
Page 301 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 301 - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 343 - Sect. 4. The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to th.e places of choosing senators.
Page 338 - He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.