Papers of the American Historical Association, Volume 2G. P. Putnam's Sons., 1888 - History Include proceedings of the annual meetings. |
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Page 84
... secure the erection of a West India Company . In the interest of this design , he vigorously opposed the con- clusion of the Twelve Years ' Truce and the policy of the party of Oldenbarneveld . During the truce he engaged in the ...
... secure the erection of a West India Company . In the interest of this design , he vigorously opposed the con- clusion of the Twelve Years ' Truce and the policy of the party of Oldenbarneveld . During the truce he engaged in the ...
Page 132
... secure and impenitent world . " He cites especially the comet of 1652 . 1 See Wolf , " Gesch . d . Astronomie , " 239 . 2 See Grasser and Gross , " Christenliches Bedencken schrockenlichen Cometen , " etc. , Zürich , 1664 . " " von dem ...
... secure and impenitent world . " He cites especially the comet of 1652 . 1 See Wolf , " Gesch . d . Astronomie , " 239 . 2 See Grasser and Gross , " Christenliches Bedencken schrockenlichen Cometen , " etc. , Zürich , 1664 . " " von dem ...
Page 133
... secure world , " and goes on to show how in that year " it pleased God to smite the fruits of the earth , namely , the wheat in special , with blasting and mildew , whereby much of it was spoiled and became profitable for nothing , and ...
... secure world , " and goes on to show how in that year " it pleased God to smite the fruits of the earth , namely , the wheat in special , with blasting and mildew , whereby much of it was spoiled and became profitable for nothing , and ...
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... secure its adoption His requests for compensation Effects of the Thirty Years ' War on the discussions , 1620 PAGE 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 25 27 28 29 31 32 34 35 38 39 42 45 47 48 647 51 52 54 55 58 59 61 64 65 66 PAGE Further ...
... secure its adoption His requests for compensation Effects of the Thirty Years ' War on the discussions , 1620 PAGE 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 25 27 28 29 31 32 34 35 38 39 42 45 47 48 647 51 52 54 55 58 59 61 64 65 66 PAGE Further ...
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... secure a preponderant influence to his own great province . Hence he had already begun to look with misgiving upon the authority which the House of Orange was acquiring through the continuance of the war under the direction of the two ...
... secure a preponderant influence to his own great province . Hence he had already begun to look with misgiving upon the authority which the House of Orange was acquiring through the continuance of the war under the direction of the two ...
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Page 63 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 28 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Page 63 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 117 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Page 63 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn by the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, that ' the judgments of the l,ord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 26 - THAT NO MAN SHALL BE COMPELLED to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever...
Page 128 - But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified ; for these things must first come to pass, but the end is not by and by.
Page 27 - Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should " make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church...
Page 61 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Page 25 - That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.