The Puritan Republic of the Massachusetts Bay in New England

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Bowen-Merrill, 1899 - 422 pàgines
 

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Distractions resulting from religious differences
249
Puritan ideas as to religious and political toleration
255
Samuel Gortons experience
262
Wilson Rise and Fall of the Slave Power
265
PLANTING THE SEED OF A REPUBLIC DEVELOPMENT
269
Bryce American Commonwealth 75
277
HOW THE REPUBLIC GREWESCAPE FROM DEMOCRACY
282
Dispute over a stray pig and its results
288
Winthrop also opposes claim of clergy
294
LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS OF A GREATER REPUBLIC
301
Articles of confederation
307
Towns and population in the confederation
313
How the colonists construed the charter
319
Why they did not petition for enlarged powers
327
Accession of Charles II and the ominous tidings from England
337
The reception of the commissioners
343
Failure of commissioners to try appeals
349
No foundation for them in their charter
355
Refusal of commonwealth authorities to comply with the kings
361
Beginning of resistance to arbitrary exercise by England of
365
Situation of colonists upon their arrival in America
366
Their letters cause dismay
373
The quo warranto proceedings pushed to a speedy hearing
379
Growth of Boston
384
De Tocqueville Democracy in America 75
386
Change in great seal
390
They were economical in public and private expenditures
396
Cost of books 178
404
None but church members admitted freemen 199
409
No development of law as a science
412
How General Court enforced respect for its authority
413
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414
Strict laws against strangers 41 41
419
Winthrop History of New England 44 45 74 112 135 140 143 144
422
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Pàgina 165 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Pàgina 165 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha-Bible, ance his father's pride; His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God!
Pàgina 399 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Pàgina 166 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with Grace Divine preside.
Pàgina 165 - An ne'er tho' out o' sight, to jauk or play ; " An' O ! be sure to fear the Lord alway ! An' mind your duty, duly, morn an' night ! Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might ; They never sought in vain, that sought the Lord aright." But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame.
Pàgina 166 - Blythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en ; The father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye. The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy, But blate and laithfu', scarce can weel behave ; The mother, wi...
Pàgina 73 - And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers ! for ye lade men with burdens, grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Pàgina 65 - It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.
Pàgina 188 - Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch ; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice.
Pàgina 166 - An honest man's the noblest work. of God;" And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind. What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined.

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