A Compendious History of New England: Exhibiting an Interesting View of the First Settlers of that Country, Their Character, Their Sufferings, and Their Ultimate ProsperityC. Taylor, 1808 - 207 pages |
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... piety , patience , fortitude , and benevolent enterprise , deserving a rank among the worthies who have founded em- pires , enlightened nations , and given glory to the iv PREFACE . age and country in which they lived.
... piety , patience , fortitude , and benevolent enterprise , deserving a rank among the worthies who have founded em- pires , enlightened nations , and given glory to the iv PREFACE . age and country in which they lived.
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... piety , and valor , in the hands of God , have been the means of this unexampled prosperity . Her soil is not the most fertile , her climate is forbidding , yet 2 Situation of New England . her wealth is greater Advantages of history ...
... piety , and valor , in the hands of God , have been the means of this unexampled prosperity . Her soil is not the most fertile , her climate is forbidding , yet 2 Situation of New England . her wealth is greater Advantages of history ...
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... piety procured them esteem and confi- dence in a land of strangers . Though they were poor , when they wished to borrow money , the Dutch would readily take their word , because they always found them punctual to fulfil their ...
... piety procured them esteem and confi- dence in a land of strangers . Though they were poor , when they wished to borrow money , the Dutch would readily take their word , because they always found them punctual to fulfil their ...
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... piety , and unconquerable virtue . Immediately after landing , they began to lay out the town into streets , and lots , and to erect buildings for their accommodation . They first erected a store house with a thatched roof , in which ...
... piety , and unconquerable virtue . Immediately after landing , they began to lay out the town into streets , and lots , and to erect buildings for their accommodation . They first erected a store house with a thatched roof , in which ...
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... Piety , humility , and bene- volence , were eminent traits in his character ; and it is par- ticularly remarked that in the time of general sickness , which befel the colony , and with which he was affected , after he had himself ...
... Piety , humility , and bene- volence , were eminent traits in his character ; and it is par- ticularly remarked that in the time of general sickness , which befel the colony , and with which he was affected , after he had himself ...
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