Cyclopædia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Ciritcal Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs, and Other IllustrationsC. Scribner, 1856 - American literature |
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... laws in brass prescribed were ; Nor suppliant crouching prisoners shook to see Their angrie judge . * * * * In firm content And harmless ease , their happy days were spent , The yet - free Earth did of her own accord ( Untorn with ...
... laws in brass prescribed were ; Nor suppliant crouching prisoners shook to see Their angrie judge . * * * * In firm content And harmless ease , their happy days were spent , The yet - free Earth did of her own accord ( Untorn with ...
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... laws established in New Eng- land , being adopted in 1641. It is not to be confounded with the " Abstract of Laws " pre- pared by Cotton .. Many of its provisions and omissions are sagacious , and its statutes are tersely worded . A ...
... laws established in New Eng- land , being adopted in 1641. It is not to be confounded with the " Abstract of Laws " pre- pared by Cotton .. Many of its provisions and omissions are sagacious , and its statutes are tersely worded . A ...
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... laws for the government of the colony . He performed the task , but his work was not accepted , the " Body of Liberties , " by Ward , being preferred in its stead . Cotton's " Abstract of the Laws of New England as they are now ...
... laws for the government of the colony . He performed the task , but his work was not accepted , the " Body of Liberties , " by Ward , being preferred in its stead . Cotton's " Abstract of the Laws of New England as they are now ...
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... LAW . From Gov. Winthrop's Speech to the Assembly of Massachu setts in 1645 . I am unwilling to stay you from your ... laws and our own , according to our best skill . When you agree with a workman to build you a ship or a house , & c ...
... LAW . From Gov. Winthrop's Speech to the Assembly of Massachu setts in 1645 . I am unwilling to stay you from your ... laws and our own , according to our best skill . When you agree with a workman to build you a ship or a house , & c ...
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... laws regarding church membership established in the colony . He displayed great courage in concealing the Regicides ... law with Sir Edward Coke , enjoying an early intimacy with him ; then a non - conformist minister in con- Iflict with ...
... laws regarding church membership established in the colony . He displayed great courage in concealing the Regicides ... law with Sir Edward Coke , enjoying an early intimacy with him ; then a non - conformist minister in con- Iflict with ...
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