A Collection of Historical and Other PapersThe editor, 1895 - 499 páginas |
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... tribe in a little peninsula , washed on all sides , except the north , by the waters of Narragan- sett and Mount Hope bays . As if to emphasize this fact , their neighbors , the people of Swanzey , " set up a very substantial fence ...
... tribe in a little peninsula , washed on all sides , except the north , by the waters of Narragan- sett and Mount Hope bays . As if to emphasize this fact , their neighbors , the people of Swanzey , " set up a very substantial fence ...
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... tribes of central Massachusetts . " Massasoit , " says Drake , " was for an Indian a great king . " As an equal he made a treaty with the whites ; and was assured that 3 " King James would esteem him his friend and ally . " Fifty years ...
... tribes of central Massachusetts . " Massasoit , " says Drake , " was for an Indian a great king . " As an equal he made a treaty with the whites ; and was assured that 3 " King James would esteem him his friend and ally . " Fifty years ...
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... tribe out of existence . There is very slight evidence that he was in command at any of the later undertakings . He certainly fled for a time to the Mohawks . Had not a certain Nemesis brought him back to die on his own hearthstone ...
... tribe out of existence . There is very slight evidence that he was in command at any of the later undertakings . He certainly fled for a time to the Mohawks . Had not a certain Nemesis brought him back to die on his own hearthstone ...
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... tribe by peculiarly close ties , to prepare for the emergency . But confederacy is a large term to apply to such ... tribes along the Connecticut River in August ; those of New Hampshire and Maine in Sep- tember and October . The ...
... tribe by peculiarly close ties , to prepare for the emergency . But confederacy is a large term to apply to such ... tribes along the Connecticut River in August ; those of New Hampshire and Maine in Sep- tember and October . The ...
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... Tribe after tribe , by a sort of The habits of the race made jealousy and fear , and often warlike contagion , rose . bloodshed natural , while sense of injury , made it certain . The first act of the war closed with Philip's flight ...
... Tribe after tribe , by a sort of The habits of the race made jealousy and fear , and often warlike contagion , rose . bloodshed natural , while sense of injury , made it certain . The first act of the war closed with Philip's flight ...
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Página 391 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Página 443 - Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
Página 465 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Página 285 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Página 71 - Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country" This publication produced quite a sensation among the officers.
Página 171 - Who shall succeed, Without fail, Forevermore. * Here is the land, Shaggy with wood, With its old valley, Mound and flood. But the heritors ? — Fled like the flood's foam. The lawyer, and the laws, And the kingdom, Clean swept herefrom.
Página 125 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.
Página 42 - We have suffered prodigiously," he writes in December, " for want of wood. Many regiments have been obliged to eat their provisions raw for want of fuel to cook it, and notwithstanding we have burnt up all the fences and cut down all the trees for a mile round the camp, our sufferings have been inconceivable. The barracks have been greatly delayed for want of stuff. Many of the troops are yet in tents, and will be for some time, especially the officers.
Página 474 - We covenant with our Lord, and one with another. We bind ourselves, in the presence of God, to walk together in all his ways, according as he is pleased to reveal himself to us in his blessed word of truth...
Página 10 - Boston ; and it was added, — we now quote the language of the instructions3 — "in prosecution of this affayre, if you should meet with any Indians that stand in opposition to you, or that declare themselves to be your enemies, then you are ordered to ingage them, if you see reason for it and endeavor to reduce them by force of armes." Nothing could have been more foolhardy than this expedition. When we consider the nature of Ephraim Curtis's report, and remember that it was known that the Nipmucks...