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... Winsor's Narrative and Critical History , VIII , 413 et seq . , and in Channing and Hart , Guide to American History , § 35. Two classes of written records may , however , sometimes be used by beginners , - family papers and local ...
... Winsor's Narrative and Critical History , VIII , 413 et seq . , and in Channing and Hart , Guide to American History , § 35. Two classes of written records may , however , sometimes be used by beginners , - family papers and local ...
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... Winsor , Narrative and Critical History , II - V , and Channing and Hart , Guide to American History , §§ 23 , 29 . There are also several valuable collections of related documents , some of which are enumerated below . The colonial ...
... Winsor , Narrative and Critical History , II - V , and Channing and Hart , Guide to American History , §§ 23 , 29 . There are also several valuable collections of related documents , some of which are enumerated below . The colonial ...
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... Winsor's Memorial History of Boston ( 4 vols . , Boston , 1880-1881 ) , Reader's Handbook of the American Revolution ... Winsor ) is Channing and Hart , Guide to the Study of American History ( New York , 1896 ) . This is a brief work ...
... Winsor's Memorial History of Boston ( 4 vols . , Boston , 1880-1881 ) , Reader's Handbook of the American Revolution ... Winsor ) is Channing and Hart , Guide to the Study of American History ( New York , 1896 ) . This is a brief work ...
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... Winsor , Narrative and Critical History , and in Charles Kendall Adams , Manual of Historical Literature ( New York , 1882 ) . Some of the books most useful to the pupil , student , or reader are enumerated below . SCHOOL HISTORIES Not ...
... Winsor , Narrative and Critical History , and in Charles Kendall Adams , Manual of Historical Literature ( New York , 1882 ) . Some of the books most useful to the pupil , student , or reader are enumerated below . SCHOOL HISTORIES Not ...
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... Winsor , Memorial History of Boston , II , ch . ví , notes ; Channing and Hart , Guide , § 129 . ` T pleased God in the Year of our Lord 1692. to visit the People at a place called Salem Village in NEW - ENGLAND , with a very Sore and ...
... Winsor , Memorial History of Boston , II , ch . ví , notes ; Channing and Hart , Guide , § 129 . ` T pleased God in the Year of our Lord 1692. to visit the People at a place called Salem Village in NEW - ENGLAND , with a very Sore and ...
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Page 625 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them to His holy keeping.
Page 232 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 155 - Fines or Forfeitures due unto Us, fit Objects of Our Mercy, to pardon all such Offenders...
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Page 465 - The winds ceased to murmur; the thunders expired; Perfumes as of Eden flowed sweetly along, And a voice as of angels, enchantingly sung: " Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies.
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Page 156 - New-York for our approbation or disallowance of the same as also duplicates thereof by the next conveyance and in case any or all of the said laws...
Page 401 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.
Page 489 - ... should not have been, the greatest part of the war, inferior to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities to ruin them pass unimproved for want of a force which the country was completely able to afford, and of seeing the country ravaged, our towns burnt, the inhabitants plundered, abused, murdered, with impunity from the same cause.