 Soon after the Reformation, a few People came over into this new world for conscience sake. Perhaps this, apparently, trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me. For if we can remove the turbulent Gallicks,...  The Columbian Cyclopedia - Page 141897Full view - About this book
 | Uriah Smith - 1887 - 328 pages
...world." John Adams, Oct. 12, 1775, wrote :— "Soon after the Reformation, a few people came over into this New World for conscience' sake. Perhaps this...may transfer the great seat of empire, to America." On the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, he wrote : — "Yesterday the greatest... | |
 | 1888 - 980 pages
...accomplishment. It is dated 12th October 1754, and says—" Soon after the Reformation, a few people came over to this New World for conscience' sake. Perhaps this...(the French in Canada), our people, according to the eiactest computation, will in another century become more numerous than England itself. Should this... | |
 | William Barrows - 1887 - 460 pages
...and a schoolmaster. Referring to the arrival of the early colonists in the New World he remarked : " Perhaps this apparently trivial incident may transfer...seat of empire to America. It looks likely to me." 3 This was in 1755. Ten years later the possibility has grown with his knowledge and patriotism and... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...TO NATHAN WEBB, WITH A STRANGE PREDICTION. SOON after the Reformation, a few people came over into this new world for conscience' sake. Perhaps this...trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me: for if we can remove the turbulent Gajlicks, our people, according... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1890 - 976 pages
...accomplishment. It is dated 12th October 1775, and says — " Soon after the Reformation, a few people came over to this New World for conscience' sake. Perhaps this...(the French in Canada), our people, according to the eiactest computation, will in another century become more numerous than England itself. Should this... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1890 - 644 pages
...Worcester, Massachusetts, October 12, 1755. " Soon after the Reformation, a few peoplecame over into this New World, for conscience' sake. Perhaps this apparently trivial incident may transfer the greai seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me ; for, if we can remove the turbulent Gallics,... | |
 | Frances Emory Tower - 1892 - 584 pages
...to the rest of mankind." 1775. John Adams: "Soon after the Reformation, a few people came over into this New World for conscience' sake. Perhaps this...may transfer the great seat of empire to America." 1776. Adam Smith predicted the transfer of empire to America, and Galvani said, "I will wager in favor... | |
 | 1892 - 492 pages
...is now the greatest Nation upon the Globe. Soon after the Reformation, a few People came over into this new world for conscience sake. Perhaps this,...trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me. For if we can remove the turbulent Gallicks, our People according... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 pages
...WEBB, WITH A STRANGE PREDICTION. SOON after the Reformation, a few people came over into this newworld for conscience' sake. Perhaps this apparently trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me: for if we can remove the turbulent Gallicks, our people, according... | |
 | 1895 - 592 pages
...to a friend, containing the following: "Soon after the Reformation, a few people came over into the new world for conscience' sake. Perhaps this apparently...trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me; for if you can remove the turbulent gallicks, our people, according... | |
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