| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1838 - 540 páginas
...eighteen years of age complete,) which will more strictly look unto, and force them to submit unto government, according to the rules of this order,...former instructions they will not be drawn unto it." And in 1654 ; " Forasmuch as it appeareth by too much experience, that divers children and servants... | |
| George Combe - 1841 - 426 páginas
...bestowed on education. In the Massachusetts Colony Laws, 1646, chap. viii. § 13, it is enacted, " that if any child or children above sixteen years old,...understanding, shall curse or smite their natural father, he or they shall be put to death, unless it can be sufficiently testified, that the parents have been... | |
| 1862 - 396 páginas
...of the Journal. Guided by the laws of Moses, " Exod. 21, 17.— Levit. 10, 9." Connecticut enacted: If any child or children above sixteen years old, and of sufficient ULderstanding, shall curse or smite their natural father or mother, he or they shall be put to death;... | |
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