Six Characters in Search of a Republic: Studies in the Political Thought of the American ColoniesRevised version of Part II of [the author's] Seedtime of the Republic. |
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... governor and assistants met at Boston , and took into consideration a treatise , which Mr. Wil- liams ( then of Salem ) had sent to them , and which he had formerly written to the governor and council of Plymouth , wherein , among other ...
... governor and assistants met at Boston , and took into consideration a treatise , which Mr. Wil- liams ( then of Salem ) had sent to them , and which he had formerly written to the governor and council of Plymouth , wherein , among other ...
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... Governor's honor , came petitions against the fee , whereupon the lower house , in an unusual display of the new colonial temperament , asked the Governor " to acquaint us with the Authority that impowers you to demand β this ...
... Governor's honor , came petitions against the fee , whereupon the lower house , in an unusual display of the new colonial temperament , asked the Governor " to acquaint us with the Authority that impowers you to demand β this ...
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... Governor stuck to the letter of the law as read in England β that grants of land were " a Matter of Favour from the Crown , and not a Matter relative to the Administration of Government β βand again the house used phrases that smacked ...
... Governor stuck to the letter of the law as read in England β that grants of land were " a Matter of Favour from the Crown , and not a Matter relative to the Administration of Government β βand again the house used phrases that smacked ...
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Apostle of Soul Liberty | 35 |
A Star of the First Magnitude | 79 |
Herald of Revolution | 116 |
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