The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 27 1873

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Heritage Books, 1995 - 464 páginas

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Contenido

Sección 1
1
Sección 2
8
Sección 3
36
Sección 4
40
Sección 5
42
Sección 6
48
Sección 7
60
Sección 8
61
Sección 18
199
Sección 19
223
Sección 20
227
Sección 21
239
Sección 22
256
Sección 23
307
Sección 24
311
Sección 25
329

Sección 9
65
Sección 10
79
Sección 11
81
Sección 12
93
Sección 13
111
Sección 14
113
Sección 15
153
Sección 16
161
Sección 17
176
Sección 26
335
Sección 27
347
Sección 28
376
Sección 29
377
Sección 30
382
Sección 31
383
Sección 32
419
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Página 86 - Resolved, That copies of the Declaration be sent to the several assemblies, conventions, and committees, or councils of safety, and to the several commanding officers of the continental troops; that it be proclaimed in each of the United States, and at the head of the army.
Página 168 - Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Página 163 - Ohio," confirmed the ordinance of 1785, and declared " that religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged.
Página 162 - At the foundation of the constitution of these new Northwestern States lies the celebrated Ordinance of 1787. We are accustomed, Sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus ; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Página 162 - It fixed forever the character of the population in the vast regions northwest of the Ohio, by excluding from them involuntary servitude. It impressed on the soil itself, while it was yet a wilderness, an incapacity to sustain any other than freemen. It laid the interdict against personal servitude, in original compact, not only deeper than all local law, but deeper, also, than all local constitutions.
Página 188 - But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart. Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness of alliance with excellence which...
Página 144 - Songs for the Nursery, or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children, printed by T. Fleet, at his printing house, Pudding Lane, Boston. Price ten coppers...
Página 255 - What new story have you lately heard agreeable for telling in conversation? 3. Hath any citizen in your knowledge failed in his business lately, and what have you heard of the cause?
Página 97 - November 15, when the following gentlemen were elected officers of the Society for the ensuing year : — President, the Rev.
Página 188 - ... connected with our whole race, through all time; allied to our ancestors; allied to our posterity; closely compacted on all sides with others; ourselves being but links in the great chain of being, which begins with the origin of our race, runs onward through its successive generations, binding together the past, the present, and the future, and terminating at last, with the consummation of all things earthly, at the throne of God.

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