Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 3

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Lewis historical publishing Company, 1909 - Maine
 

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Page 1414 - We live in the past by a knowledge of its history; and in the future, by hope and anticipation. By ascending to an association with our ancestors ; by contemplating their example, and studying their character ; by partaking their sentiments, and imbibing their spirit ; by accompanying them in their toils ; by sympathizing in their sufferings, and rejoicing in their successes and their triumphs, we mingle our own existence with theirs, and seem to belong to their age.
Page 1374 - Let us think that his dying eyes read a mystic meaning which only the rapt and parting soul may know. Let us believe that in the silence of the receding world he heard the great waves breaking on a farther shore, and felt already upon his wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning.
Page 1354 - President of the United States of America, "To ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS, Greeting...
Page 1351 - An EXAMINATION of the TESTIMONY of the FOUR EVANGELISTS, by the Rules of Evidence administered in Courts of Justice, with an account of the TRIAL of JESUS.
Page 1350 - ... his winning manners and persuasive style of speaking and address, accompanied by the skill and ingenuity of his arguments, established his reputation and his practice on a firm basis. In the act of the new state, establishing the Supreme Judicial Court...
Page 1463 - a sincere servant of Christ, who had a fair yearly revenue in England, but having improved it for Christ by casting it into the common treasury, he waits on the Lord for doubling his talent, if it shall s«em good unto him so to do, and the mean time spending his person for the good of his people in the office of magistrate.
Page 1202 - History of Plymouth Plantation," informs us that he was "hired for a cooper at Southampton, where the ship victualed ; and being a hopeful young man was much desired but left to his own liking to go or stay when he came here; but he stayed and married here.
Page 1304 - Virginia to the elders here, bewailing their sad condition for want of the means of salvation, and earnestly entreating a supply of faithful ministers, whom, upon experience of their gifts and godliness, they might call to office, etc.
Page 1356 - Cleveland ; and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks...
Page 1354 - This commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the United States for the time being. Given under my hand, at...

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