Methodism in America: With the Personal Narrative of the Author, During a Tour Through a Part of the United States and Canada |
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... considered a good or an evil , according to the taste and notions of men ; but to people who witness these pageants so con- stantly , and in such numbers in this country , the contrast is striking . The streets of New - York are very ...
... considered a good or an evil , according to the taste and notions of men ; but to people who witness these pageants so con- stantly , and in such numbers in this country , the contrast is striking . The streets of New - York are very ...
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... considered by the Americans themselves as their most beautiful city . Taken as a whole , it may be so . The assemblage of favourable circumstances seems com- plete . Earth and sky , land and water , all combine to produce this effect ...
... considered by the Americans themselves as their most beautiful city . Taken as a whole , it may be so . The assemblage of favourable circumstances seems com- plete . Earth and sky , land and water , all combine to produce this effect ...
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... considered as despicable foes ; probably , not as soldiers at all . Great issues turned on these two events , -the independence of America , and the humiliation of England . The pictures of the Embarcation and Landing of the Pil- grims ...
... considered as despicable foes ; probably , not as soldiers at all . Great issues turned on these two events , -the independence of America , and the humiliation of England . The pictures of the Embarcation and Landing of the Pil- grims ...
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... considered as a great retrogression into , the ages of social simplicity , when shep- herds and farmers left their flocks and ploughs to com- mand armies and govern states , and then returned to their avocations ; or else it must be ...
... considered as a great retrogression into , the ages of social simplicity , when shep- herds and farmers left their flocks and ploughs to com- mand armies and govern states , and then returned to their avocations ; or else it must be ...
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... considered a part of this valley . The Mississippi itself may be taken as the centre line of this great tract of country , stretching from north to south , prepared by nature herself as a drain for the waters descending from the east ...
... considered a part of this valley . The Mississippi itself may be taken as the centre line of this great tract of country , stretching from north to south , prepared by nature herself as a drain for the waters descending from the east ...
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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.