Rolfe Family Records: Volume II

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Page 145 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
Page 120 - Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Page 109 - ... again. Perhaps a more noble nor a more tragical scene was ever exhibited, than that of the march of the garrison of St. Philip's through the Spanish and French armies. It consisted of no more than 600 old decrepid soldiers, 200 seamen, 120 of the royal artillery, twenty Corsicans, and twenty-five Greeks, Turks, Moors, Jews, &c.
Page 23 - London (ch. v., printed separately as Pocahontas and her Companions, London, 1869), and in the same writer's English Colonisation in America (chap, iv.) Charles Dudley Warner, in the Study of the Life and Writings of John Smith (1881), treats the Pocahontas episode with sceptical levity. Deane's views were also supported by Henry Adams in the North American Review, January 1867 ; by Henry Cabot Lodge in his English Colonies in America ; by Justin Winsor in History of America, vol.
Page 234 - To help the common-weill take cuire. Use no deceit : mell not with treason : And to all men do right and reason. Both unto word and deed be true : All kind of wickedness eschew. Slay no man, nor thereto consent : Be nought cruel, but patient.
Page 261 - Walpole, the house, after a long debate, came to the following resolutions: — 1. that Robert Walpole, Esq. a member of this house, in receiving the sum of 500 guineas, and in taking a note for 500 more, on account of two contracts for forage of...
Page 168 - ... which he has done, having a liberal fortune as well as a liberal mind, and really meriting the appellation of a builder of palaces. For, he built a new palace at Chester; he built a new...
Page 257 - I was casually showed the Duchess of Portsmouth's splendid apartment at Whitehall, luxuriously furnished, and with ten times the richness and glory beyond the Queen's; such massy pieces of plate, whole tables, and stands of incredible value.
Page 109 - ... and twenty-five greeks, turks, moors, jews, &c. The two armies were drawn up in two lines, the battalions fronting each other, forming a way for us to march through ; they consisted of...
Page 103 - Way of the World": Determined beforehand, we gravely pretend To ask the opinion and thoughts of a friend : Should his differ from ours on any pretence, We pity his want both of judgment and sense ; But if he falls into and flatters our plan, Why really we think him a sensible man.

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