Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants

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A. V. Haight, printer, 1890 - 418 sivua
 

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Sivu 173 - Therefore thus saith the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Sivu 229 - We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he shall help, will .submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
Sivu 234 - For all that is in the world, is the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Sivu 251 - Chatham, and thence to view not only what mischief the Dutch had done ; but how triumphantly their whole fleet lay within the very mouth of the Thames, all from the North Fore-land, Margate, even to the buoy of the Nore — a dreadful spectacle as ever Englishmen saw, and a dishonour never to be wiped off...
Sivu 250 - Upon perusing them, it is impossible not to be struck with the comprehensive knowledge they display of the principles of jurisprudence, and with the directness and simplicity with which legal investigations were conducted. In fact, as a means of ascertaining truth, and of doing substantial justice, their mode of proceeding was infinitely superior to the more technical and artificial system introduced by their English successors.
Sivu 336 - ... the high and mighty lords, the states general of the United Netherlands...
Sivu 230 - It is agreed by us whose hands are underwritten, to propagate a Plantation in the midst of the Island or elsewhere; AND...
Sivu 26 - He was exactly five feet, six inches in height and six feet, five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature with all her sex's ingenuity would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone just between the shoulders.
Sivu 336 - Managers aforesaid shall acknowledge as their Lords and Patroons, under the Sovereignty of the High and Mighty Lords the States General ; and unto their Director and Council here, shall in all things be conformed, as all good citizens are in duty bound. Provided, also, that he shall be...
Sivu 259 - Myself received an arrow through my coat sleeve, a second against my helmet on the forehead; so as if God in his providence had not moved the heart of my wife to persuade me to carry it along with me (which I was unwilling to do), I had been slain.

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