An Address Delivered at Topsfield in Massachusetts, August 28, 1850: The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town

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Pudrey & Russell, printers, 1851 - 74 sidor

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Sida 45 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Sida xiii - ... shed. I would humbly beg of you, that your honors would be pleased to examine these afflicted persons strictly, and keep them apart some time, and likewise to try some of these confessing witches, I being confident there...
Sida 1 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages, and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums and fruits and flowers. In yonder nether world where shall I seek His bright appearances, or footstep trace...
Sida xii - Lord he knows it is that, if it be possible, no more innocent blood may be shed, which undoubtedly cannot be avoided in the way and course you go in. I question not but Your...
Sida xiii - I know and the Lord knows (as will shortly appear) they belie me, and so I question not but they do others ; the Lord alone, who is the searcher of all hearts, knows, as I shall answer it at the tribunal seat, that I know not the least thing of witchcraft, therefore I cannot, I durst not belie my own soul.
Sida xii - To the honorable judge and bench now sitting in judicature in Salem and the reverend ministers, humbly showeth, that whereas your humble poor petitioner being condemned to die, doth humbly beg of you, to take it into your judicious and pious consideration, that your poor and humble petitioner knowing my own innocency...
Sida xiii - I beg your honours not to deny this my humble petition, from a poor, dying, innocent person, and I question not but the Lord will give a blessing to your endeavours. MARY EASTY.
Sida 57 - From the disastrous battle in which she lost her crown and life, he fled to the Cambrian mountains. There his posterity lived and became the terror of the lowlands. Thus it was that the term PEA, which means ' mountain,' was prefixed to UOADlK, which means
Sida 45 - Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Sida xii - I question not, but your honours do to the utmost of your powers, in the discovery and detecting of witchcraft and witches, and would not be guilty of innocent blood for the world; but by my own innocency I know you are in the wrong way.

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