The American Colonies, 1583-1763Houghton, Mifflin, 1912 - 302 страници |
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... laws that hindered all development , was at any rate less terrible by land than by sea . The ideal of a restored and universal Roman or German Empire , unsatis- factory and often in abeyance as it was , at least provided some slight ...
... laws that hindered all development , was at any rate less terrible by land than by sea . The ideal of a restored and universal Roman or German Empire , unsatis- factory and often in abeyance as it was , at least provided some slight ...
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... law . But in spite of such measures , villeinage died out rapidly as each lower class rose on the ruins of the older nobility , many of whose proudest houses had been wrecked in the Wars of the Roses men willing to work , but unable to ...
... law . But in spite of such measures , villeinage died out rapidly as each lower class rose on the ruins of the older nobility , many of whose proudest houses had been wrecked in the Wars of the Roses men willing to work , but unable to ...
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... laws was passed to protect the defenceless beings whose cause he championed . His treatise in 1542 was followed by a declaration from Charles v . that the aborigines were to be treated as free men and not slaves . And in the year 1551 ...
... laws was passed to protect the defenceless beings whose cause he championed . His treatise in 1542 was followed by a declaration from Charles v . that the aborigines were to be treated as free men and not slaves . And in the year 1551 ...
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... laws . ' This , the first colonial charter in our annals , possesses an interest of its own , but it came to nothing . The men to whom it was granted had not capital enough ; merchants did not yet see that their profit lay in supporting ...
... laws . ' This , the first colonial charter in our annals , possesses an interest of its own , but it came to nothing . The men to whom it was granted had not capital enough ; merchants did not yet see that their profit lay in supporting ...
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... laws were made : yet those who could afford the condemned articles continued to use them ; only people not rich enough to transgress the enactment obeyed it . The sumptuary laws , for instance , seem to have made not the slightest ...
... laws were made : yet those who could afford the condemned articles continued to use them ; only people not rich enough to transgress the enactment obeyed it . The sumptuary laws , for instance , seem to have made not the slightest ...
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Страница 223 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Страница 47 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Страница 50 - The loyal to their crown Are loyal to their own far sons, who love Our ocean-empire with her boundless homes For ever-broadening England, and her throne In our vast Orient, and one isle, one isle, That knows not her own greatness : if she knows And dreads it we are fall'n. But thou, my Queen, Not for itself, but thro...
Страница 222 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue...
Страница 57 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Страница 100 - Twas Presbyterian true blue; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints whom all men grant To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks...