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Page 152 - Trustees and Fellows of the College or University, in the English Colony of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations in New England, in America...
Page 253 - And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid and said, How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 80 - A Summary of the Principal Evidences for the Truth and Divine Origin of the Christian Revelation.
Page 293 - ... that the moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section fifth of this act) and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college...
Page 134 - England, shall be, from time to time, and forever hereafter, a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America...
Page 293 - And be it further enacted, that all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land-scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks...
Page 25 - And furthermore, it is hereby enacted and declared, that into this liberal and catholic institution, shall never be admitted any religious tests ; but on the contrary, all the members hereof, shall forever enjoy full, free, absolute, and uninterrupted liberty of conscience...
Page 169 - ... he read me a manuscript more than a year since on that subject, which he did not own, though charged then with being the author. He did not deny it ; whereby he was entreated not to add the printing of this to the long list of imprudent things which had already so greatly grieved his friends ami ?o injured his reputation.
Page 84 - Laws was conferred upon him by this college. Mr. Richards had received no intimation that the honor was intended for him, nor did he live to hear that it had been bestowed. The library which he bequeathed to the college is, in many respects, valuable. It contains a considerable number of Welsh books, a large collection of valuable works, illustrating the history and antiquities of England and Wales; besides two or three hundred bound volumes of pamphlets, some of them very ancient, rare, and curious....