Foot-prints, Or, Incidents in Early History of New BrunswickJ. & A. McMillan, 1883 - 119 pages |
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Page 49 - For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars...
Page 50 - Happy are the people that are in such a case : yea, blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God.
Page 44 - I now proceed to lay in the name of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and may the education ever to be furnished by the institution be conducted on Wesleyan principles, to the glory of God and the extension of His cause. Amen.
Page 16 - Fell out about the water ; To war they went, that is to law, Resolved to give no quarter. A lawyer was by each engaged, And hotly they contended ; When fees grew scant, the war they waged They judged, twere better ended. The heavy costs remaining still, Were settled without pother ; — One lawyer took the upper mill, The lower mill the other.
Page 47 - They helped every one his neighbour; And every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, And he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, Saying, It is ready for the sodering: And he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
Page 17 - And for so doing, This shall be your Warrant. And so We bid you Farewell. GIVEN at Our Court at Kensington the Fifteenth Day of June, 1739, in the Thirteenth Year of Our Reign.
Page 66 - ... on probation of good conduct, the Court may, instead of sentencing him at once to any punishment, direct that he be released on his entering into a...
Page 65 - ... him, giving him bread and water only for his food, until you receive further orders from me, or the commissary of prisoners for the state of New Jersey, for the time being. Given under my hand, at Elizabethtown, this 6th day of Nov., 1779. " ELISHA BOUDINOT,
Page 65 - I am that I have been put under the disagreeable necessity of a treatment towards your person that will prove so irksome to you ; but retaliation is directed, and it "will, I most sincerely hope, be in your power to relieve yourself from the situation by writing to New York, to procure the relaxation of the sufferings of John Leshier, and Capt. Nathaniel Randal.
Page 17 - Our Chief Justice of and in Our said Province; To have, hold, execute and enjoy the said Office unto him the said...