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Page 113 - ... you shall be governed by laws of your own making, and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious people. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution, and has given me his grace to keep it. In short, whatever sober and free men can reasonably desire for the security and improvement of their own happiness, I shall heartily comply with, and in five months resolve, if it please God, to see you.
Page 153 - Their government is by Kings, •which they call Sachama, and those by succession ; but always of the mother's side. For instance, the children of him who is now King will not succeed, but his brother by the mother, or the children of his sister, whose sons (and after them the children of her daughters) will reign, for no woman inherits.
Page 188 - An order was sent down to Taunton that all these little girls should be seized and imprisoned. Sir Francis Warre, of Hestercombe, the Tory member for Bridgewater, was requested to undertake the office of exacting the ransom. He was charged to declare in strong language that the maids of...
Page 20 - Moreover, when the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low; and I was required to Thee and Thou all men and women, without any respect to rich or poor, great or small.
Page 148 - The natives I shall consider, in their persons, language, manners, religion and government, with my sense of their original. For their persons, they are generally tall, straight, well-built, and of singular proportion; they tread strong and clever, and mostly walk with a lofty chin.
Page 147 - For the seasons of the year, having by God's goodness now lived over the coldest and hottest that the oldest liver in the province can remember, I can say something to an English understanding.
Page 155 - Kings ; first, to tell them what was done ; next, to charge and command them to love the Christians, and particularly to live in peace with me and the people under my government ; that many Governors had been in the river ; but that no Governor had come himself to live and stay here before : and having now such an one, who had treated them well, they should never do him or his any wrong ; at every sentence of which they shouted, and said Amen in their way.
Page 299 - Pennsylvania, what hast thou not cost me ? Above £30,000 more than I ever got by it, two hazardous and most fatiguing voyages, my straits and slavery here, and my child's soul almost...
Page 316 - I earnestly endeavored to form such a model of government as might make all concerned in it easy ; which, nevertheless, was subject to be altered as there should be occasion. Soon after we got over, that model appeared, in some parts of it, to be very inconvenient, if not impracticable. The numbers of members, both in the Council and Assembly, were much too large. Some other matters also proved inconsistent with the King's charter to me ; so that, according to the power reserved for an alteration,...
Page 149 - Of their customs and manners there is much to be said. I will begin with children. So soon as they are born they wash them in water, and while very young, and in cold weather to choose, they plunge them in the rivers to harden and embolden them.