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... England - is situated on the left bank of the James as one sails up the river from Norfolk , and is distant about ninety miles from Richmond . The original grant was made to John Martin . " Martin's Bran- don " is still the title of the ...
... England - is situated on the left bank of the James as one sails up the river from Norfolk , and is distant about ninety miles from Richmond . The original grant was made to John Martin . " Martin's Bran- don " is still the title of the ...
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... England . Benjamin Harrison , his son and heir , was a room - mate of Thomas Jefferson at William and Mary College , Williamsburg . The intimacy was continued in later years , and after Mr. Jeffer- son's return from France he planned ...
... England . Benjamin Harrison , his son and heir , was a room - mate of Thomas Jefferson at William and Mary College , Williamsburg . The intimacy was continued in later years , and after Mr. Jeffer- son's return from France he planned ...
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... England . Upon Benjamin West's portrait of Colonel Alston of South Carolina . Upon the dark intellectual face of Benjamin Harrison , who married Miss Evelyn Byrd of Westover , niece of the Fair Evelyn ; and a half - score of other ...
... England . Upon Benjamin West's portrait of Colonel Alston of South Carolina . Upon the dark intellectual face of Benjamin Harrison , who married Miss Evelyn Byrd of Westover , niece of the Fair Evelyn ; and a half - score of other ...
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... England in IRTUS INSTAR the train of William the Conqueror , and it trans- mits an ancient ballad , be- ginning , " My father from the Norman shore , With Royal William came . " The first American Byrd - William - was born in London in ...
... England in IRTUS INSTAR the train of William the Conqueror , and it trans- mits an ancient ballad , be- ginning , " My father from the Norman shore , With Royal William came . " The first American Byrd - William - was born in London in ...
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... England and the Continent . Among the pictures were the portraits now preserved at Lower and at Upper Brandon . They were removed to these houses when Westover passed out of the Byrd family . A partial list , ( taken from a Westover MS ...
... England and the Continent . Among the pictures were the portraits now preserved at Lower and at Upper Brandon . They were removed to these houses when Westover passed out of the Byrd family . A partial list , ( taken from a Westover MS ...
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Page 407 - Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men! Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Page 391 - I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, Even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more With the inhabitants of the world.
Page 434 - Powhatan; then as many as could laid hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs to beat out his brains, Pocahontas, the King's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death, whereat the Emperor was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads, and copper, for they thought him as well9 of all occupations as themselves.
Page 379 - And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them : remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
Page 434 - ... after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the conclusion was, two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could laid hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs to beat out his brains, Pocahontas, the King's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms and laid her own upon his to save him from death...
Page 433 - Powhatan and his train had put themselves in their greatest braveries. Before a fire upon a seat like a bedstead, he sat covered with a great robe, made of raccoon skins, and all the tails hanging by.
Page 380 - And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession ; and I will be their God.
Page 445 - ... weapons, when we were at supper. Therefore, if we would live, she wished us presently to be gone. Such things as she delighted in he would...
Page 433 - Having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the conclusion was, two great stones were brought before Powhatan : then as many as could...
Page 397 - ... of which were very awful; and yet such was the hardheartedness of the adversary, that my tears were reckoned to me as a reproach. My loss, and the loss of my children, was great; our hearts were so filled with sorrow, that nothing but the comfortable hopes of her being taken away in mercy to herself, from the evils we were to see, feel, and suffer under, (and joined to the assembly of the spirits of just men made perfect, to rest in peace, and joy unspeakable, and full of glory...