Memorials of the Huguenots in America: With Special Reference to Their Emigration to PennsylvaniaHuguenot Publishing Company, 1901 - 164 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abraham Adam Alsace America ancestor Andrew arrived became Berks county born Boyer branch brothers Bucks Catharine Christian Church Coligny Colonel colony Conewago Conrad considerable number Count Zinzendorf Daniel daughter David death Delaware descendants died distinguished Duke Duke of Guise early Edict of Nantes eminent England faith father fled founder France Frederick French French nobility George German Germantown Henry Hillegas Hist Holland honorable posterity Huguenot immigrant Isaac Jacob LeVan Jacques James Jean Bertolet John Jacob John Peter Joseph King La Rochelle Lanc Lancaster county land large number later Lefever located Lorraine Louis Madame Ferree married Martin Maxatawny Mennonites Michael minister Montgomery county Moravian Navarre Nicholas nobility noble Oley Palatinate pastor Pechin Penn Pennsylvania persecution Phila Philadelphia Philip Pierre President prior prominent Protestant Province Reformed religious removed Revocation Revolution settled settlement settlers sons Switzerland tion Valley whence wife William York
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Página 78 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think : They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Página 25 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea, And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free. The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white waves' foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared — This was their welcome home.
Página 41 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents passed into the skies!
Página 108 - Faith of our fathers ! living still In spite of dungeon, fire and sword ; O how our hearts beat high with joy Whene'er we hear that glorious word ; Faith of our fathers ! holy faith ! We will be true to thee till death.
Página 53 - One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Página 137 - Such was he: his work is done. But while the races of mankind endure, Let his great example stand Colossal, seen of every land, And keep the soldier firm, the statesman pure : Till in all lands and thro...
Página 17 - Hope looks beyond the bounds of time, When what we now deplore, Shall rise in full immortal prime, And bloom to fade no more.
Página 10 - Thine was the seed-time ; God alone Beholds the end of what is sown ; Beyond our vision, weak and dim, The harvest-time is hid with Him. Yet, unforgotten where it lies, That seed of generous sacrifice, Though seeming on the desert cast, Shall rise with bloom and fruit at last.
Página 139 - When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.
Página 14 - The ecclesiastical courts, as we shall hereafter see, very early acquired the right of determining as to the validity of wills of personal estate; and, in the exercise of this right, they generally followed the rules of the civil law. By this law males at the age of fourteen, and females at the age of twelve, were allowed, if of...