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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 90 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 45 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 22 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 22 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 7 1 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
islation Chap. VI.} 1643. independent of European control; and the voluntary act of the assembly, restraining religious liberty, adopted from hostility to political innovation, rather than from a spirit of fanaticism, or respect to instructions, proves conclusively the attachment of the representatives of Virginia to the Episcopal church and the cause of royalty. Yet there had been Puritans in the colony almost from the beginning: even the Brownists were freely offered a secure asylum; Bradford, in Prince. here, said the tolerant Whitaker, neither surplice nor subscription is spoken of, and several Puritan families, and perhaps I muse that so fewof our English ministers, that were so hot against the surplice and subscription, come hither, where neither is spoken of. Whitaker, in Purchas, b. IX. c. XI. some even of the Puritan clergy, emigrated to Virginia. They were so content with their reception, that large numbers were preparing to follow, and were restrained 1619. only by
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
of conscience. I use the copy which once belonged to William Bradford, and which is now in the library of Robinson's churched to learn mechanical trades; Brewster became a printer; Bradford, who had been educated as a farmer, learned the art of dyapsed, before it was ready for service. But Standish and Bradford, and others, impatient of the delay, determined to explorth, the shallop was again sent out, with Dec. 6. Carver, Bradford, Winslow, Standish, and others, with eight or ten seamen.and his wife, broken-hearted, followed him in death. William Bradford, the historian of the colony, was soon chosen his sucattlesnake, was now the token of his hostility. But when Bradford stuffed the skin with powder and shot, and returned it, hys subordinate to the general will, was, at the desire of Bradford, specially restricted by a council of five, and afterwardld award to their virtues. Out of small beginnings, said Bradford, great things have been produced; and as one small candle
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
dship with the pilgrims, the governor of Massachusetts, with Wilson, pastor of Boston, repaired to Plymouth. 1632. Oct. 26. From the south shore of Boston harbor, it was a day's journey, for they travelled on foot. In honor of the great event, Bradford and Brewster, the governor and elder of the Old Colony, came forth to meet them, and conduct them to the town, where they were kindly entertained and feasted. On the Lord's day, they did Oct. 28. partake of the sacrament; in the afternoon, a q, that not the poets only, like Tasso, but the clearest minds, Sir Isaac Newton, Pascal, Spinoza, have been deeply tinged with insanity. Perhaps Williams pursued his sublime principles with too scrupulous minuteness; it was at least natural for Bradford and his contemporaries, while they acknowledged his power as a preacher, to esteem him unsettled in judgment. The court at Boston remained as yet undecided; when the church of Salem,—those who were best acquainted with Williams,—taking no not