The Journals of Hugh Gaine: Biography and bibliography

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Page 42 - Majesty intituled an Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America; for continuing amending and making perpetual an Act passed in the sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the second intituled an Act for the better securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America...
Page 97 - Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model...
Page 140 - America ; and that it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty...
Page 117 - Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
Page 159 - Christ: translated out of the original greek; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command.
Page 125 - Charter of the Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen in the Communion of the Church of England, in America...
Page 137 - RULES and Articles, for the Better Government of the Troops, raised or to be...
Page 161 - Containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command.
Page 137 - Captain General, and Governor in Chief in and over the Province of New- York, and the / Territories depending thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the same.
Page 139 - Esq ; Captain General and Governor in chief, in and over the province of New York, and the territories depending thereon in America.

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