History of the Society of Jesus in North America; Colonial and Federal, Volume 1, Part 1

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Longmans, Green, 1908
 

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Page 258 - Now if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 247 - Confirming this and none other to be my last will and testament in testimony whereof I Have Hereunto set my Hand and affixed my seal this twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight...
Page 258 - America, to be paid to the said , his certain attorney, executors, administrators or assigns, to which payment well and truly to be made, I do bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, for and in the whole, firmly by these presents.
Page 269 - Possession now being by virtue of a Bargain and Sale to him thereof made for ,one whole Year by Indenture, bearing Date the Day next before the Day of the Date of these Presents, and by Force of the Statute for transferring of Uses into Possession, and...
Page 249 - Street, in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, in the county of Middlesex, spinster, all of his estate, after the payment of his debts and funeral expenses, and appointed her, executrix.
Page 137 - Rapinam bonorum cum gaudio susceperunt, cognoscentes se habere meliorem et manentem substantiam. Ludibria ac verbera experti sunt, insuper et vincula et carceres; lapidati sunt, secti sunt, tentati sunt, in occisione laquei mortui sunt, circuierunt egentes, angustiati, afflicti. Nee tarnen, quae Dei misericordia est, passus est nos tentari supra quam possumus, sed fecit cum tentatione proventurn, ut possimus sustinere. In ipso certa spes collocata est quod [?] qui coepit hoc opus bonum ipse perficiet.
Page 223 - ... usual feasts of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Michael the Archangel...
Page 332 - Land seems evidently the best and securest establishment yt can be made for present and future Views. Several Tracts of Land have been lately sold for double ye price they were bought for a few years ago. And a valuable tract may now be purchased for eight hundred or a thousand pounds, yet in a few years will in all probability be held at two or three thousand. Nor is there any difficulty of our purchasing now, tho there may be perhaps afterwards.
Page 365 - ... the way for a return of the Society, I alone opened and continued the correspondence with the General in Russia, and with his concurrence gave all that existence to it, which it could receive without a full and authentic repeal of the destructive brief of Clement XIV. I am ashamed for having said so much of myself, which nothing should have extorted from me but the undeserved insinuations of my unfriendliness for not adopting the suggestions of a zeal, which appeared to me so precipitate as to...
Page 365 - College these were originally my acts alone; they were performed without the small [est] expense to those who have since enjoyed the property; my journeys year after year, my attendance on the general assemblies, my sollicitations, my care and watchfulness over the wording of the different acts of the Legislature, which were necessary to erect corporations for the clergy and the College, so that they might not be a bar against the Society in case of its revival ; these were done by me alone, tho...

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