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John Winthrop and Anne Hutchinson
"THe examination of mrs. Anne Hutchinson" |
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| You have maintained a meeting and assembly in your house that hath been condemned by the general assembly as a thing not tolerabloe or comely in the sight of God nr fitting for your sex and notwithstanding that was cried down you have continued the same. Therefore we have thought good to send for you to understand how tings are that i you be in an erroneous way, we may reduce you so that you may become a profitable member among us. |
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Winthrop and Hutchinson
"the examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson" |
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| But put to the case sir, I do fear the Lord and my parents. May not I entertain them that fear the Lord because my parents will not give me leave? |
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Winthrop and Hutchinson
The examination of Mrs.Anne Hutchinson |
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Definition
| We do not mean to discourse with those of your sex but only this: you so adhere unto them and do endeavor to set foward this faction and so do dishonor us |
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Winthrop and Hutchinson
"the examination of Mrs.Anne Hutchinson |
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Definition
| If your meeting had answered to the former it had not been offensive, but I will say that there was no meeting of women alone, but your meeting is of another sort for there are sometimes men among you. |
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Winthrop and Hutchinson
The Examination of mrs.Anne Hutchinson |
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| Men and women all is one for that, but ssuppose that a man should come and say Mrs. Hutchinsion, I hear that you are a woman that God have given his grace unto and you have knowledge in the word of God, I pray, instruct me a little, ought you not to instruct this man? |
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Winthrop and Hutchinson
"the examination of mrs. anne hutchinson |
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Definition
| We see not that any should have authority to set up any other exercises besides what authority hath already set up and so what hurt comes of this you will be guilty of and we for suffering you |
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William bradford
Of Plymouth Plantation |
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Definition
| John Howland..was, with a seele of the ship, thrown into the sea; but it pleased God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which hung overboard and ran out at length. Yet he held his hold (though he was sundry fathoms under water) thill he was haulded up by the same rope to the brim of the water, and then with a boat hook and other means got into the ship again and his life saved |
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Bradford
Of Plymouth plantation |
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Definition
| Being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element. And no marvel if they were thus joyful, seeing wise Seneca was so affected with sailing a few miles on the coase of his own Italy, as he afirmed that he had rather remain twenty years on his way by land than pass by sea to any place in a short time, so tedious and dreadful was the same unto him. |
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bradford
Of Plymouth plantation` |
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Definition
| they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their weatherbeaten bodies; no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succour |
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bradford
Of Plymouth plantation |
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Definition
| Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness full of wild beasts and wild men --- and what multitudes there might be of them they knew not. Neither could they, as it were, go up to the top of Pisgah to view from this wilderness a more goodly country to feed their hopes for which way soever they turned their eyes (save upward to the heavens) they could have little solace or content in respect of any outward objects....If they looked behind them there was the mighty ocean which they had passed and was now as a main bar and gulf to separate them from all civl parts of the world |
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Term
Bradford
"Plymouth plantation" |
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Definition
| What could now sustain them but the Spirit of God and His grace? May not ought not the children of these fathers rightly say "our father's were Englishmen" |
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Bradform
"Plymouth Plantation" |
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Definition
| Covenant and combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservaton and furtherance of the ends aforesaid: and by virtue hereof Constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be though most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promis all due submission and obedience |
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Bradford
"Plymouth plantation" |
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Definition
| that in two or three months time, half of their company died, especially in January and February...there was but six or seven sound persons who to their great commendations, be it spoken, spared no pains night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of...In a word, did all the homely and necessare offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs can not endure to hear named |
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Term
Roger Williams
"from A Key into the language of America of Salutation" |
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Definition
The courteous pagan shall condemn/
Uncourteous Englishmen/
Who live like foxes bears and wolves
Or lion in his den/ |
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Roger Williams
"from A Key into the language of America of Salutation" |
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Definition
If nature's sons both wild and tame,/
Humane and courteous be,/
How ill becomes it sons of God/
To want humanity/ |
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Term
Roger Williams
"Of eating and entertainment" |
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Definition
In wilderness, in great distress/
These ravens have fed me |
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Term
Roger Williams
"Of Sleep and lodging" |
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Definition
I have known them leave their house and mat/
To lodge a friend or stranger/
When jews or Christians oft have sent/
Christ Jesus to the manger |
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Roger Williams
"of sleep and lodging" |
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Definition
'Fore day they invocate their gods/
Though many false, and new;/
O how should that God worshipped be,/
Who is but one and true |
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Term
Roger Williams
"Of possesions of art and body" |
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Definition
Boast not proud English, of they birth and blood/
They brother Indian is by birth as good |
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Term
Roger Williams
"Of possesions of art and body" |
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Definition
Make sure they second birth, else thou shalt see/
Heaven ope to Indians wild, but shut to thee |
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Term
Roger Williams
"Of Earth and fruit thereof" |
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Definition
But man forgets his maker, who/
Framed him in righteousness. /
A paradise in Paradise, now worse/
Than Indian wilderness |
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Term
Roger Williams
"Of Beasts, ETC." |
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Definition
For though God's children lose their lives/
They shall not lose a hair,/
But shall arise, and judge all those/
That now their judges are |
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Term
Roger Williams
"Of Beasts, ETC." |
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Definition
New Englands wild beasts are not fierce/
As other wild beasts are./
Some men are no so fierce, and yet/
From mildness are they far. |
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Roger Williams
"Of their nakedness and clothing" |
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Definition
Israel was naked, wearing clothes!/
The best clad englishmen,/
Not clothed with Christ, more naked is/
Than naked Indian |
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Term
Bradford
Of Plymouth plantation |
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Definition
| his kingdom should go down, the truth prevail and the churches of God revert to their ancient purity and recover their primitive order, liberty and beauty |
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Term
Bradford
Of plymouth plantation |
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Definition
| That when by the bloody and barbarous persecutions of the heathen emperors he could not stop and subvert the course of the gospel but that it speedily overspread with a wonderful celerity |
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Term
bradford
Of plymouth plantation |
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Definition
| Theier present dangers and wisely foresee the future and think of timely rememdy. In the agitation of their thoughts, and much discourse of things hearabout at lenght they began to incline to this conclustion: of removal to some other place |
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| Bradford "Of Plymouth Plantation" |
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Definition
| Now to maintain this riotous prodigality and profuse excess, Morton, thinking himself lawless, and hearing what gain the French and fishermen mad by trading of pieces, powder and shot to the indians and the head of this consortship began the practice of the same in these parts |
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Bradford
"Of plymout plantation" |
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Definition
| And threatened withal that if any came to molest him, let them look to themselves for he would prepare for them. |
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Term
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Definition
| The riddle, for want of Oedipus, they could not expound, only they made some explication of part of it and said it was meant by Samson Job |
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Term
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Definition
| No Irish stuff nor Scotch over worn/ lasses in beaver coats come away/ Ye shall be welcome to us night and day |
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Term
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Definition
| This harmless mirth made by young men (that lived in hope to have wives brought over to them, that would save them a labor to make a voyage to fetch any over was much distasted of the precise. Spearatists that keep much ado about the tithe of mint and cummin, troubling their brains more than reason would require about things that are indifferent and from that time, they sought occasion against my honest hose of Ma-re Mount to overthrow his undertakings and to destroy his plantation quite and clean. But because they presumed that with their imaginary gifts (which they have out of phaon's box) they could expound hidden mysteries to convince them of blindness as well in this as in other matters of more consequence, I will illustrate the poem according to the true intent of the authors of these revels so much distasted by those moles |
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Term
Williams
"of Their government" |
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Definition
We wear no clothes, have many gods/ And yet our sins are less/
You are barbarians, pagans wild/
your land's the wilderness |
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Term
Williams
"From The bloddy tenet of persecution for the cause of conscience" |
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Definition
| God requireth not an uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state, which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls, Ninethly in holding an enforced uniformity of religion in a civil state we must necessarily disclaim our desires and hopes of the Jew's conversion to Christ |
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In adam's fall/
We sinned all |
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Term
| "The Dutiful Child's Promises" |
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Definition
I will love my friends/
I will hate no man |
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Term
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Definition
I will learn my catechism/
I will keep the Lord's day Holy/
I will Reverence God's Sanctuary/
for Our God is a consuming fire |
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Term
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Definition
I in the burying place may see/
Graves shorter there than i/
From Death's arrest no age is free/
Young children too may die/
My God, may such and awful sight/
Awakening be to me/
Oh! that by early Grace I might/
For death prepared be |
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Definition
| What is the chief End of Man?/ Answer: Man's chief end is to Glorify God, and to Enjoy Him forever. |
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Term
| The Shorter Catchism (not sure if this is the actually title, the other possibility is "assembly of divines at Westminister" check the pages 130 adn 131 to see if i'm correct) |
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Definition
Q: What is the work of creation/
A: The work of Creation is God's Making all things of Nothing, by the Word of his Power |
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Q: What is the misery of that estate whereinto Man fell?/
A: All mankind by there fall, lost communication with God, are under his Wrath and Curse, and so made liable to all miseries in this life, to Death it self and to the pains of Hell forever |
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Q: did God leave all Mankind to perish in the estate of Sin and Misery/
A:God having out of his meer good pleasure from all Eternity, Elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a Covenant of Grace to deliver them out of the state of Sin and Misery and to being them into a stae of salvation by a redeemer |
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Q: What is justification/
A: Justification is an act of God's free Grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins and accepteth us as righteous in his fight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us and received by faith alone. |
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| Q: what is sanctification/ A: Sanctification is the Work of God's free Grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole Man, after the Image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto Sin, and live unto righteousness |
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Term
Anne bradstreet
"the prologue" |
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Definition
A bartas can do what a bartas will/
But simple I, according to my skill |
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Term
Anne Bradstreet
"the prologue" |
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Definition
My foolish, broken, blemished muse so sings/
And this to mend, alas, not art is able/
Cause nature made it so irreparable |
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Definition
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/
Who says my hand a needle better fits. |
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Definition
But sure antique Greeks were fare more mild/
Else of our sex, why feigned they those nine. |
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Definition
If e'er you deign these lowly lines you eyes/
Give thyme or parsley wreath, I ask no bays/
This mean and unrefined or of mine/
Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine. |
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Term
bradstreet
"contemplations" |
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Definition
Silent alone, where none saw or heard/
In pathless paths I led my wand'ring feet/
My humble eyes to lofty skies I reared/
To sing some song, my mazed Muse thought meet/
That nature had thus decked liberally/
But ah and ah again my imbecility. |
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Term
Bradstreet
"The author to her book" |
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Definition
Though ill formed offspring of my feeble brain/
Who after birth didst by my side remain/
Till snatched from hence by friends, less wise than true/
Who thee abroad exposed to public view/ |
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Term
Bradstreet
"the author of her book" |
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Definition
Thy visage was so irksome in my sight/
Yet being mine own, at length affection would/
thy blemishes amend, if so I could. |
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Term
Bradstreet
"Before the birth of one of here children" |
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Definition
How soon, my Dear, death may my steps attend/
How soon't may be thy lot to lose thy friend/
We both are ignorant, yet love bids me |
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Term
Bradstreet
"before the birth of one of her children" |
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Definition
Yet love thy dead feel'st no grief, as I no harms/
Yet love thy dead, who long lay in thine arms/
And when thy loss shall be repaid with grains/
Look to my little babes, my dear remains |
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Term
Bradstreet
"To my dear and loving husband" |
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Definition
If ever two were one, then surely we/
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee/
If ever wife was happy in a man/
Compare with me, ye women if you can/
I prize thy love more than while mines of gold/
Or all the riches that the east doth hold/
My love is such that rivers cannot quench/
Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense/
Thy love is such I can no way repay/
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray/
There while we live, in love let's so persever/
That when we live no more, we may live ever |
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Term
bradstreet
"a letter to her husband absent upon public employment" |
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Definition
My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay, more/
My joy, my magazine of earthly store/
If two be one, as surely thou than I/
How stayest thou there, whilst I at ipswitch lie/
so many steps head from the heart to sever/
If but a neck, soon should we be together |
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Term
Bradstreet
" a letter to her husband absent upon public employment" |
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Definition
My chilled limbs now numbed lie forlorn/
return return sweet Sol, from Capricorn |
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Term
bradstreet
"a letter to her husband absent upon public employment" |
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Definition
whereever, ever stay and go not thence/
Till nature's sad decree shall call thee hence/
Flesh of they flesh, bone of they bone/
I here, thou there, yet both but one |
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Term
bradstreet
"in memory of my dear grandchild elizabeth bradstreet (who deceased august 1665 being a year and a half old) |
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Definition
Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content/
Farewell sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye/
Farewell fair flower that for a space was lent/
Then ta'en away unto eternity/
Blest babe why should I once bewail thy fate/
Or sigh they days so soon were terminate/
Sith thou art settle in an everlasting state |
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Term
Bradstreet
"In memory of my dear grandchild" |
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Definition
But plants new set to be eradicate/
And buds new blown to have so short a date/
Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate. |
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Term
Bradstreet
"upon the burning of our house" |
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Definition
And when I could no longer look/
I blest His name that gave and took/
That laid my goods now in the dust/
yea so it was, and so 'twas just |
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Term
Bradstreet
"upon the burning of our house" |
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Definition
It's purchased and paid for too/
By him who hath enough to do |
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Term
Bradstreet
"upon the burning of our house" |
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Definition
The world no longer let me love/
My hope and treasure lies above. |
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Term
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Definition
Lord, can a crumb of dust the earth outweigh/
Outmatch all mountains nay the crystal sky |
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Term
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Definition
If it its pen had of an angel's quill/
And sharpened on a precious stone ground tight/
and dipped in liquid gold, and moved by skill/
In crystal leaves should golden letters write/
It would but blot and blur yea jag and jar/
Unless thou mak's the pen and scrivener |
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Definition
Let not th' attempts to break down my dust I pray/
Nor laugh Thou them to scorn but pardon give/
Inspire this crumb of dust till it display/
They glory through't and then thy dust shall live |
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Definition
That thou wilt guide its pen to write aright/
To prove though art, and that thou art the best |
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Term
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Definition
| A golden path my pencil cannot line |
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Term
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Definition
In this sad state, God's tender bowels run/
Out streams of grace and he to end all strife. |
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Term
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Definition
This bread of life dropped in my mouth doth cry/
Eat, eat my, soul, and thou shalt never die. |
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Term
Taylor
"upon a spider catching a fly" |
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Definition
Tho sorrow, venom elf/
Is this thy play/
To spin a web out of thyself/
to catch a fly/
for why? |
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Mary Rowlandson
"a narrative of the captivity and restoration of mrs. Mary rowlandson |
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Definition
| At lenght they came and beset our own house, and quickly it was the dolefullest day that ever mine eyes saw. |
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Mary Rowlandson
"a narrative of the captivity" |
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Definition
| Now is the dreadful hour come, that I have often heard of (in time of war as it was the case of others) but now mine eyes see it. Some in our house were fighting for their lives, others wallowing in their blood, the House on fire over our heads, and the bloody Heathen ready to knock us on the head, if we stirred out. Now might we hear mothers and children crying out for themselves, and one another Lord, what shall we do? Then I took my children (and one of my sisters, hers) to go forth and leave the house: but as soon as we came to the door and appeard, the Indians shot so thick that the bulletts rattled agains the house as if one had taken an handfull of stones and threw them so that we were fain to give back |
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Term
Rowlandson
"a narrative of the captivity" |
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Definition
| The bullets flying thick, one went through my side, and the same as would seem, through the bowels and hand of my dear Child in my arms. |
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Term
Bradstreet
"Captivity and Restoration" |
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Definition
| The Indians laid hold of us, pulling me one way, and the children another, and said, come go along with us; I told them they would kill me: they answered, If I were willing to go along with them, the would not hurt me |
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Rowlandson
"captivity and restoration" |
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Definition
| I had often before said, that if the Indians should come, I should choose rather to be killed by them than taken alive but when it came to the trial, my mind changed; their glittering weapons so daunted my spirit that I chose rather to go along with those (as I may say) raveous Beasts, than that moment to end my days. |
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Rowlandson
"captivity and resoration" |
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Definition
| One of the indians carried my poor wounded babe upon a horse, it went moaning all along, I shall die, I shall di, I went on foot after it, with sorry that cannot be exprest |
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Rowlandson
"captivity and restoration" |
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Definition
| But the lord renewed my strength still, and carried me along |
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Term
Rowlandson
"captivity and Restoration" |
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Definition
| It may be easily judged what a poor feeble condition we were in, there being not the least crumb of refreshing that came within either of our mouths, from Wednesday night to Saturday night, except only a little cold water. |
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Rowlandson
"captivity and restoration" |
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Definition
| I cannot but take notice of the wonderfull mercy of God to me in those afflictions in sending me a bible. One of the Indians came from Medfield fight, had brought some plunder, came to me and asked me, if I would have a Bible, he had got one in his basket. I was glad of it, and asked him, whether he thought the Indians would let me read? he answered, yes: So I took the Bible and in that melancholy time, it came into my mind to read the first 28th chapter of deuteronomy |
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Rowlandson
"captivity and restoration" |
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Definition
| I went along that da mourning and lamenting, leaving farther my own country and travelling into the vast and howling wilderness. and I understood something of Lot's wife's temptation when she looked back. |
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Term
Rowlandson
"captivity and restoration" |
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Definition
| Hearing that my son was come to this place, I went to see him, and told him his father was well, but very melancholy |
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Term
Johnathan Edwards
Sarah pierrepont |
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Definition
| I frequently used to retire into a solitary place, on the banks of Hudson's river at some distance fromt he city, for contemplation on divine things |
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Term
Edwards
"a divine and super natural light" |
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Definition
| Those convictions that natural men may have of their sin and misery is not this spiritual and divine light |
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Term
Edwards
"a diving and supernatural light" |
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Definition
| That some sinners have a greater conviction of their guilt and misery than others, is because some have more light or more of an apprehension of truth than others. |
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Edwards
"a divine and supernatural light" |
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Definition
| Conscience is a principle natural to men; and the work that it doth naturally, or of itself is to give and apprehension of right and wrong, and to suggest to the mind the relation that there is between right and wrong and a retribution |
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Term
Edwards
"a divine and supernatural light" |
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Definition
| This spiritual and divine light does not consist in any impression mad upon the imagination. It is no imagination or idea of an outward light |
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Term
Edwards
"a divine and supernatural light" |
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Definition
| This spiritual and divine light does not consist in any impression mad upon the imagination. It is no imagination or idea of an outward light |
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Term
Edward
"a divine and supernatural light" |
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Definition
| The spiritual light is not the suggesting of any new truths or propositions not contained in the word of god |
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Term
Edwards
"a divine and supernatural light" |
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Definition
| the spiritual light primarily consists in the forver of these, viz., a real sense and apprehension of the divine excellency of things revealed in the word of God. A spiritual and saving conviction of the truth and reality |
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Edwards
"a divine and supernatural light" |
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Definition
| A true sense of the divine and superlative excellency of the things of religion; a real sense of the excellency of God and Jesus Christ and of the work |
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Term
Benjamin Franklin
"the autobiography" |
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Definition
| It was about this time that I conceiv'd the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection. I wish'd to live without commiting any Fault at any time: I would conquer all that either Natural Inclination, Custom or company might lead me into. As I know or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a Task of more difficulty than I had imagined while my attention was taken in guarding against one Fault, I was often surpized by another. Habit took the Advantage of Inattentiveness |
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Franklin
"the autobiograpy" |
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Definition
| Resolution, once become habitual, would keep me firm in my endeavours to obtain all the subsequent vitrues; Frugality and industry |
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Term
Franklin
"the autobiography" |
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Definition
| Order too, with regard to places for things, papers, etc.I found extreamly difficult to acquire, I had not been early accustomed to Method, and Hving and exceeding good Momeory, I was not so sensible of the Inconvenience attending Want of method. This article therefore cost me so much painful attention and my faults in it vex'd me so much and I made so little progress in amendment, and had such frequent relapses that I was almost ready to give up the attempt and content myself with a faulty character in that respect |
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Franklin
"the autobiography" |
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Definition
| For something that pretended to be Reason was every now and then suggesting to me, that such extreme nicety as I exacted of my self might be a kind of Foppery in Morals, which if it were known would make me ridiculous, that a perfect character might be attended with the Inconvenience of being envied and hated and that a benevolent Man should allow a few faults in himself to keep his friends in countenance |
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Samson Occom
"from a short narrative of my life" |
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Definition
| I was born a heathen and brought up in heathenism, till I was between 16 and 17 years of age |
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Term
Occom
"a short narrative of my life" |
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Definition
| they had blankets givent o them every fall of the year and for these things they would attend and there was a sort of school kept when i was quite young, but I believe there never was one that ever learnt to read anything. |
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Definition
| After I was awakened and converted I went to all the meetings...And when i was 17 years of age I had, as I trust, a discovery of the way of salvation throught Jesus Christ and was enable'd to put my trust in him alone for life and salvation |
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Occom
"a short narrative of my life" |
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Definition
| I over strained my eyes to such a degree I could not pursue my studies and longer, and out of these four years I lost just about one year -- and was oblighed to quit my studies |
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Occom
"a short narrative of my life" |
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Definition
| I found difficulty with some children who were someone dull, most of these can soon learn to say over their letters, they ditinguish the letters, and the way i took to curer them was by making an alphabet on small bits of paper, and glued them on small chips of cedar after this manner |
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Occom
"a short narrative of my life" |
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| Besides all these difficulties I met with adverse providnece. I bought a mare, had it but a little while, and she fell into the quicksand and died. After a while bought another; I kept her about half a year, and she was gone, and I never have heard of nor seen her from that day to this; it was supposed some rogue stole her i got another and it died with a distemper, and last of all I bought a young mare, and kept her till she had one colt, and she broke her loge and died, and presently ater the colt died also. In the whole I lost five horse kind |
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Thomas paine
"the age of reason" |
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| I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy and endeavouring to make our fellow creatures happy. |
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| my own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether jewish, christian, or turkish, appear tome no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe other wise they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessar to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. |
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| Revalation..means something communicated immediately from God to man |
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| But admitting for the sake of a case that something has been revealed to a certain person and not revealed to any other person, it is revelation to that person only. When he tells it to a second person, a second to a third, a third to a fourth, and so on, it ceases to be a revelation to all those persons. It is revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to every other, and consequently, the are not obliged to believe it. |
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| It was not a revelation made to me, and I have only hs word for it that was made to him. |
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| Every man is an evidence to him self, that he did not make himself |
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| it is the conviction arising from this evidence, that carries us on, as it were, by necessity to the belief, of a first cause, eternally existing, of a nature totally different, to any material existence we know of. |
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| It is only by exercise of reason that man can discover God...HOw then is it that those people pretend to reject reason. |
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| Adam, if ever there was such a man, was created a Deist; but in the mean time, let every man folow, as he has a right to do, the religion and worship he prefers |
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Thomas Jefferson
"Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson" |
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| when in the course of human events it becomes necessar for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the seperate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. |
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Thomas Jefferson
"Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson" |
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| We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and certain inalienable rights; that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriveing their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of govt. becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it |
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Phillis Weatley
"To the university of Cambridge in New England" |
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Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand/
Brought me in safety from those dark abodes/
Students to you 'tis giv'n to scan the heights/
Above to traverse the ethereal space |
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Wheatley
"To the university of Cambridge" |
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Let sin, that baneful evil to the soul/
By you be shunned, nor once remit your guard |
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Wheatley
"University of Cambridge" |
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An Ethiop tells you 'tis your greatest foe/
Its transient sweetness turns to endless pain |
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Wheatley
"On being broght from Africa to America" |
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'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land/
Taught my benighted soul to understand/
That there's a God, that there's a savior too/
Once I redemtion neither sought nor knew |
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Wheatley
"on being brought from Africa to America" |
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Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain/
May be refin'd and join th' angelic train |
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| And all attest how potent is thine hand |
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There in one view we grasp the mighty whole/
Or with new worlds amaze th' unbounded sould |
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Philip Freneau
"The wild honey suckle" |
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| She bade thee shun the vular eye |
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Freneau
"The wild honey suckle" |
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Smit with those charms, that must decay/
I grieve to see your future doom/
They died -- nor were those flowers more gay,/
The flowers that did in Eden bloom/
Unpitying frosts and Autumn's power/
Shall leave no vestige of this flower |
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Freneau
"The wild honey suckle" |
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From morning suns and evening dews/
At first they little being came/
If nothing once, you nothing lose/
for when you die you are the same/
The space between is but an hour/
The frail duration of a flower |
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Freneau
"The indian burying ground" |
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In spite of all the learned have said/
I still my old opinion keep/
The posture, that we give the dead/
Points out the souls eternal sleep |
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Freneau
"The indian burying ground" |
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| Again is seated with his friends |
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Freneau
"The indian burying ground" |
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Thou, stranger that shalt come this way/
No fraud upon the dead commit/
Observe the swelling turf and say/
They do no lie, but here they sit |
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Freneau
"The indian burying ground" |
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and reason's self shall bow the knee/
To shadows and delusions here |
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Welcome -- I hail you to my glass/
All welcome, here, you find/
Here let the cloud of trouble pass/
Here be all care resigned/
This fluid never fails to please/
And drown the griefs of men or bees |
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Here bigger bees than you might sink/
Even bees full six feet high/
Like Pharaoh, then you would be said/
To perish in a sea of red |
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Go, take your seat in Charon's boat/
We'll tell the hive, you died afloat |
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Freneau
"Attributes of the god of nature" |
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All that exist upon him lean/
He lives in all, and never stray'd/
A moment from the works he made |
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Freneau
"Attributes of the god of nature" |
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All that exist upon him lean/
He lives in all, and never stray'd/
A moment from the works he made |
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Freneau
"Attributes of the god of nature" |
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Impartially he rules mankind/
And all that on this globe we find |
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Freneau
"Attributes of the god of nature" |
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All that he did he first approved/
He all things into being loved/
O'er all he made he still presides/
For them in life, or death provides |
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