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... North Carolina South Carolina Georgia .. Florida Page . 251 252 253 262 263 267 268 270 273 275 276 278 284 II . THE HUDSON AND LAKE LINE . Troy . Vermont Black - River Oneida Genesee Erie North Ohio Michigan North Indiana Rock - River ...
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... north , called North , or Hudson's , River . Oppo- site this tongue of land , at a considerable distance , is the upper end of Long - Island , which has the effect of land- locking the harbour , guarding it from storms , and break- ing ...
... north , called North , or Hudson's , River . Oppo- site this tongue of land , at a considerable distance , is the upper end of Long - Island , which has the effect of land- locking the harbour , guarding it from storms , and break- ing ...
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... North and A South , B North and B South , & c .: and east and west , they are designated by num- bers ; as , 1st East , 1st West , & c . Pennsylvania avenue , from the capitol to the president's house , is the most compactly built , and ...
... North and A South , B North and B South , & c .: and east and west , they are designated by num- bers ; as , 1st East , 1st West , & c . Pennsylvania avenue , from the capitol to the president's house , is the most compactly built , and ...
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... north , I should have had ample experience of their nocturnal visits ; -bad enough as it was , but the warfare of the night must have been ten times worse , if these southern gentry could have lived in the regions I visited . The camp ...
... north , I should have had ample experience of their nocturnal visits ; -bad enough as it was , but the warfare of the night must have been ten times worse , if these southern gentry could have lived in the regions I visited . The camp ...
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... North and South , at any rate , in this journey , met without collision . Our route lay along a very interesting country , partly in the State of Maryland , and partly in Virginia . We beheld a great number of slaves at work in the ...
... North and South , at any rate , in this journey , met without collision . Our route lay along a very interesting country , partly in the State of Maryland , and partly in Virginia . We beheld a great number of slaves at work in the ...
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Page 256 - In the name of God, amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 256 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 426 - Resolved, That it is the sense of this General Conference that he desist from the exercise of this office so long as this impediment remains.
Page 393 - Does this conference acknowledge that slavery is contrary to the laws of God, man, and nature, and hurtful to society ; contrary to the dictates of conscience and pure religion, and doing that which we would not that others should do to us and ours?
Page 357 - At the end of the half -hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer of a world, had fallen asleep on the margin of the stream that bears his name. Near its mouth the canoe-men dug his grave in the sand. Ever after, the forest rangers, if in danger on Lake Michigan, would invoke his name. The people of the West will build his monument.
Page 256 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid, and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony ; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 210 - Bishop. I shudder, I start at the very thought ! Men may call me a knave, or a fool, a rascal, a scoundrel, and I am content; but they shall never, by my consent, call me a Bishop ! For my sake, for God's sake, for Christ's sake, put a full end to this ! Let the Presbyterians do what they please, but let the Methodists know their calling better.
Page 357 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 178 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Page 237 - They shall not change or alter any part or rule of our government, so as to do away episcopacy, or destroy the plan of our itinerant general superintendency.