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Page 63 - I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Page 30 - ... to do the like again. They then went away, and the friends of the murdered chief incited their friends — as they are a people like the Italians, who are very revengeful — to set about the work of vengeance. Observing our people out of the house, each one at his work, that there was not more than one inside, who was lying sick, and a large mastiff, who was chained — had he been loose they would not have dared to approach the house — and the man who had command, standing near the house,...
Page 50 - And Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the dayes of the Week and ye months of the year shall be called as in Scripture, & not by Heathen names (as are vulgarly used) as the first, second and third days of ye Week and first second and third months of ye year, and beginning with ye Day called Sunday and the month called March.
Page 47 - ... distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.
Page 42 - Joshua Morris. " David Ogden, probably from London. "Evan Oliver, with Jean, his wife, and children, David, Elizabeth, John, Hannah, Mary, Evan and Seaborn, of Radnorshire, Wales. The last named was a daughter born at sea, almost within sight of the Capes of Delaware.
Page 43 - Turning round to his friend Pearson, one of his own Society, who had accompanied him in the ship Welcome, he said, " Providence has brought us here safe. Thou hast been the companion of my perils. What wilt thou that I should call this place?
Page 30 - An Indian remained on board of the yacht at night, whom we asked why they had slain our people, and how it happened. He then showed us the place where our people had set up a column, to which was fastened a piece of tin, whereon the arms of Holland were painted.
Page 30 - Indians, who were to do the deed, bringing a lot of beaver-skins with them to exchange, sought to enter the house. The man in charge went in with them to make the barter ; which being done, he went to the loft where the stores lay, and in descending the stairs, one of the Indians seized an axe, and cleft his head so that he fell down dead. They also relieved the sick man of life ; and shot into the dog, who was chained fast, and whom they most feared, twenty-five arrows before they could despatch...
Page 19 - AT, and then to the mud flats of the Delaware. Patches of old Bryn Mawr gravel remain in various townships on the divides at 400' AT Patches and streaks of brick-clay remain on the terrace, and are extensively wrought. Brick clay (holding bowlders) passes also under the river mud. Cobb's creek (along the eastern line,) Darby creek, Crum creek, Ridley creek, and Chester creek cross the...
Page 117 - Tell them that they will live to see the hour| when they shall acknowledge it to have been the most glorious service that I have ever rendered to my country.