New England in the Life of the World: A Record of Adventure and AchievementPilgrim Press, 1920 - 393 páginas |
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Página vii
... American Saxondom , and at that little fact of the sailing of the Mayflower . It was properly the beginning of America . There were straggling settlers in America before ; some material as of a body was there ; but the soul of it was ...
... American Saxondom , and at that little fact of the sailing of the Mayflower . It was properly the beginning of America . There were straggling settlers in America before ; some material as of a body was there ; but the soul of it was ...
Página xii
... American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions . Of co - workers at a distance to whom I feel in- debted the list is a long one , and includes among many others : Rev. John G. Fraser of Cleveland , O. , Rev. John W. Sutherland of ...
... American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions . Of co - workers at a distance to whom I feel in- debted the list is a long one , and includes among many others : Rev. John G. Fraser of Cleveland , O. , Rev. John W. Sutherland of ...
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... American d , " by Dr. William E. Strong . Considerable has been spent poring over the records of the rican Historical Association and still ng into the files of newspapers and periodicals , ell as in consulting numerous pamphlets and al ...
... American d , " by Dr. William E. Strong . Considerable has been spent poring over the records of the rican Historical Association and still ng into the files of newspapers and periodicals , ell as in consulting numerous pamphlets and al ...
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... American soldiers who went overseas , interpret the action taken on its highest side ? The crucial question always is what motive is dominant enough to bring all the other motives into line with itself . As for the New Englanders who ...
... American soldiers who went overseas , interpret the action taken on its highest side ? The crucial question always is what motive is dominant enough to bring all the other motives into line with itself . As for the New Englanders who ...
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... American patriot . . . . The first object is the preservation of the spirit of freedom , which is the soul of the Republic itself . Let that become languid and the Republic itself must languish and decline . Let it become extinct and ...
... American patriot . . . . The first object is the preservation of the spirit of freedom , which is the soul of the Republic itself . Let that become languid and the Republic itself must languish and decline . Let it become extinct and ...
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Página 140 - WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free!
Página 324 - BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne, Ye nations bow with sacred joy ; Know that the Lord is God alone, He can create, and he destroy.
Página 140 - Upbearing, like the Ark of old, The Bible in our van, We go to test the truth of God Against the fraud of man.
Página 241 - Jehovah, and he shall save me from the wrath of Pele when I break through her tabus, then you must fear and serve the Lord Jehovah. All the gods of Hawaii are vain. Great is the goodness of Jehovah, in sending missionaries to turn us from these vanities to the living God and the way of righteousness.
Página vii - Hah ! These men, I think, had a work ! The weak thing, weaker than a child, becomes strong one day, if it be a true thing. Puritanism was only despicable, laughable then ; but nobody can manage to laugh at it now. Puritanism has got weapons and sinews ; it has fire-arms...
Página 105 - The Mayflower, sir, brought seed and not a harvest. In a century and a half the religious restrictions of the Puritans had grown into absolute religious liberty, and in two centuries it had burst beyond the limits of New England, and John Carver of the Mayflower had ripened into Abraham Lincoln of the Illinois prairie.
Página vii - They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day ; How love should keep their memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway.
Página 7 - Lastly (and which was not least), a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea, though they should be but even as stepping-stones unto others for the performing of so great a work.
Página 63 - Who'd like to change your lot; Who've spunk enough to travel Beyond your native spot, And leave behind the village Where Pa' and Ma' do stay, Come follow me and settle In Michd-gan-ia.
Página 354 - ... pioneers that ^ followed Moses Cleaveland to the Connecticut Reserve occupied a region as large as the parent State. The area which settlers of New England stock occupied on the prairies of northern Illinois surpassed the combined area of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Men who had become accustomed to the narrow valleys and the little towns of the East found themselves out on the boundless spaces of the West dealing with units of such magnitude as dwarfed their former experience....