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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
tended commerce. No where in the world were life, liberty, and property, safer than in Rhode Island. The thanks of the colony were unanimously voted to a triumvirate of benefactors Ms. Record, Vote 3, 4, and 6.—to King Charles of England, for his high and inestimable, yea, incomparable favor; to Clarendon, the historian, the statesman, the prime minister, who had shown to the colony exceeding great care and love; and to the modest and virtuous Clarke, On Clarke, see Backus, i. 440; Allen's Biog. Dict. The charge of baseness in Grahame, i. 315, is an unwarranted misapprehension. His enemies in Massachusetts disliked his principles and his success they respected his fidelity and his blameless character. Grahame is usually very candid in his judgments. the persevering and disinterested envoy, who, during a twelve years mission, had sustained himself by his own exertions and a mortgage on his estate; whose whole life was a continued exercise of benevolence, and who, at his de
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
ched sedition, and planned resistance. Once at least, to the great anger of the governor, they put by thanksgiving; and at private Sewall, Mss. fasts they besought the Lord to repent himself for his servants, whose power was gone. The enlightened Moody refused to despair, confident that God would Chap XVII.} 1688 yet be exalted among the heathen. On the Lord's day, which was to have been the day of thanksgiving for the queen's pregnancy, the church was much grieved at the weakness of Allen, who, from the literal version of the improved Bay Psalm Book, gave out,— Jehovah, in thy strength And joy in thy salvation, Thou granted hast to him And thou hast not with holden back The king shall joyful be, How vehemently shall hee! That which his heart desired, That which his lips required. But Willard, while, before prayer, he read, among many other notices, the occasion of the governor's gratitude, and, after Puritan usage, interceded largely for the king, otherwise altered not hi