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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Colonial history. (search)
ned in sin, to serve to his glory and the profit of his elect. Four hundred and seventy-four years after the barons at Runnymede had extorted Magna Charta from their legitimate king, the aristocratic revolution of 1688 established for England and its dominions the sovereignty of Parliament and the supremacy of law. Its purpose was the security of property and existing franchises, and not the abolition of privilege, or the equalization of political power. The chiefs of the nobility who, in 1640, had led the people in its struggle for liberty, had, from the passionate enthusiasm of a generous inexperience, been hurried, against their design, into measures which their interests opposed. Made circumspect by the past, the renewed contest did not disturb their prudence, nor triumph impair their moderation. Avoiding the collisions with established privileges that spring from the fanatical exaggeration of abstract principles, still placing the hope of security on the system of checks and
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
oss he bore, surrounded by a crowd of virgins, in the beatitudes of 1640. heaven. Once, as he himself has recorded, while engaged in penance, a nearer rendezvous for converted Indians, possession was taken, in 1640, by a 1640 solemn mass, celebrated beneath a tent. In the followino the Virgin. There the Mohawk and the feebler Algonquin, Relation 1640, 1641, p. 211. said Le Jeune, shall make their home; the wolf shall nations, whom no one can number; but the Jesuits were too Relation 1640, p. 211. feeble, and too few, to attempt the spiritual conquest of snquins from the west, especially from Green Bay. In the autumn of 1640, Charles Raymbault and Relation 1641, p. 12. Claude Pijart reached n, except as seen by missionaries from their stations in Canada. In 1640, Brebeuf had been sent to the villages of the neutral nation which oe avenue to the west by the Ottawa, Pijart and Charles Raymbault, in 1640, on their pilgrimage to the Huron country, attempted the conversion