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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)
erence in opinion in matters of Chap XI.} 1663 religion; every person may at all times freely and fully enjoy his own judgment and conscience in matters of religious concernments. The charter did not limit freedom to Christian sects alone; it granted equal rights to the painim, and the worshipper of Fo. To the disciples of Confucius it was, on the part of a Christian prince no more than an act of reciprocal justice; the charter of Rhode Island was granted just one year after the emperor of China had proclaimed the enfranchisement of Christianity among the hundred millions of his people. No joy could be purer than that of the colonists, when the news was spread abroad, that George Baxter, Backus, almost always very accurate, here mistakes the name. the most faythful and happie bringer of the charter, had arrived. On the beautiful island, long Nov. 24. esteemed a paragon for fertility, and famed as one of the pleasantest sea-side spots in the world, the whole body of the peopl
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
seventh degree, without finding a passage. Netherlanders in the service of Portugal had 1595. visited India, Malacca, China, and even Japan. Of these Cornelius Houtman, in April, 1595, sailed for India by way of the Cape of Good Hope, and beford Hudson once more on a 1608. voyage, to ascertain if the seas which divide Spitzbergen from Nova Zembla, open a path to China. The failure of two expeditions daunted Hudson's 1609. employers; they could not daunt the great navigator. The disccommanded by Hudson and manned by a mixed crew of Netherlanders and Englishmen, his son being of the number, set sail for China by way of the north-east. On the fifth day of May he had attained the height of the north cape of Norway; but fogs and fh the Emperor of Ceylon. In 1611 their ships once again braved the frosts of the Arctic circle in search of a new way to China; and it was a Dutch discoverer, Schouten, from Hoorn, Chap. XV.} 1616. who, in 1616, left the name of his own beloved s
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
y letter, to catechize Innocent XI. Ploughmen and Sewel, 570 milkmaids, becoming itinerant preachers, sounded the alarm throughout the world, and appealed to the consciences of Puritans and Cavaliers, of the Pope and the Grand Turk, of the negro and the savage. The plans of the Quakers designed no less than the establishment of a universal religion; their apostles made their way to Chap. XVI.} Fox, 351. Rome and Jerusalem, to New England and Egypt; and some were even moved to go towards China and Japan, and in search of the unknown realms of Prester John. The rise of the people called Quakers is one of the memorable events in the history of man. It marks the moment when intellectual freedom was claimed unconditionally by the people as an inalienable birthright. To the masses in that age all reflection on politics and morals presented itself under a theological form. The Quaker doctrine is philosophy, summoned from the cloister, the college, and the saloon, and planted among