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...sy flourish together, under that odious tyrant and hypocritical fanatic, Oliver Cromwell: when the altar was thrown down and both King and Archbisho... ...itchcraft, in the jurisdiction, a case occurred. It was in Springfield upon the Connecticut river, and in the family of the Rev. Mr. Moxam. Two of hi... ...were many supposed cases of the offence. In 1662 witchcraft passed over to Connecticut. In Hartford at that time, there was imprisoned a witch,... ...en and devils;‖ and it was for an illicit intercourse with the latter, that the Connecticut govenor hung this young woman. After her sentence th...

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... drew 7,108 votes; Charles Darwin, 6,337; Isaac Newton, 4.664; and Oliver Cromwell, 4,653. copy available to burn them, but then Tyndale would use ... ...tor—a beautiful machine—is housed in the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut. Twain later observed that he‘d learned two things from the...

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... drew 7,108 votes; Charles Darwin, 6,337; Isaac Newton, 4.664; and Oliver Cromwell, 4,653. William Tyndale was the first man to print the New Testa... ...tor—a beautiful machine—is housed in the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut. Twain later observed that he‘d learned two things from the e...

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... the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemen... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT by MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Cleme... ...t going to have anything particular to do next winter anyway. MARK TWAIN. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 3 A CONNECTICUT ... ...n done with a bullet since inven tion of firearms — perhaps maliciously by Cromwell’s sol diers.” My acquaintance smiled — not a modern smile, but ... ...n smile, but one that must have gone out of general use many, many centu A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 4 ries ago — and... ...rough many wa ters and valleys, and evil was he lodged. And at the last A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 5 by fortune him...

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...em. Mr. Peters afterwards went back to England, and was chaplain to Oliver Cromwell; but Grand father did not tell the children what became of this u... ...r. Hooker and Mr. Stone, two ministers, went on foot from Massachusetts to Connecticut, through the pathless woods, taking their whole congrega tion ... ...rable event took place in 1643. The colonies of Massachu setts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed a union, for the purpose of assisting eac... ...was left to take care of itself. In 1649 King Charles was beheaded. Oliver Cromwell then became Protector of England; and as he was a Puritan himself,... ...readful war that had yet occurred between the Indians and the English. The Connecticut settlers, assisted by a celebrated Indian chief named Uncas, bo... ... on his restoration to his father’s throne. When death had stricken Oliver Cromwell, that mighty protector had no sincerer mourners than in New Englan...

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...countrymen to a foreign obedience? The difference between Pennsyl vania and Connecticut, respecting some unlocated lands, shews the insignificance of... ...thing, which ever happened, or may happen to kings as being his work. OLIVER CROMWELL thanks you. CHARLES, then, died not by the hands of man; and sho...

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...ity of the city. Pennsylvania Avenue, New York Avenue, Vermont Avenue, and Connecticut Avenue do the same at what is generally called President’s Squa... ...history is made up of re- bellion and revolution. Hampden, Pym, and Oliver Cromwell; Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, all were rebels.” Then comes th... ...to put down rebellion. Had Wash- ington been the governor of Virginia, had Cromwell been a minister of Charles, had Garibaldi held a marshal’s baton ... ...red! Pennsylvania does not, in my mind, stand on a par with Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Illinois, 81 Trollope or Virginia. We are apt to co... ...of their trials have been different. It did not seem to be well with us in Cromwell’s early days; nor was it well with us afterward in those disgracef... ...al purposes. Rhode Island may do so, and so may Massa- chusetts, New York, Connecticut, and the other rich At- lantic States. They may tax themselves ...

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.... 3 The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the Prince... ...aracter, that it could never have been suggested by him. NOTES to Chapter XXIII Death for Trifling Larcenies When Connecticut and New Haven were frami... ...e has never been a time—under the Blue Laws or any other—when above fourteen crimes were punish- able by death in Connecticut. But in England, within ...

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...er, he continued: “Now, if that young man who was in your sleigh is a real Connecticut set- tler, he will be telling everybody how he saved my horses,... ... settlement; but, as most of its inhabitants were from the moral States of Connecticut and Massachu- setts, when the wants of nature were satisfied th... ...hborhoods, who were tempted by their representations to leave the farms of Connecticut and Massachusetts, to make a trial of fortune in the woods. Dur... ...le doggerel, whose verses, if extended, would reach from the Caters of the Connecticut to the shores of Ontario. The tune was, of course, a familiar a... ...rd, but trust to time, and the will of Heaven? Here is another letter from Connecticut, but it only repeats the substance of the last. There is but on... ...thed sword, that he was fond of saying his ancestors had carried in one of Cromwell’ s victories, and crying, in an authoritative tone, to “clear the ...

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... John Brown, was an officer in the Revolution; that he himself was born in Connecticut about the beginning of this century, but early went with his fa... ...e Puritans. It would be in vain to kill him. He died lately in the time of Cromwell, but he reappeared here. Why should he not? Some of the Pu- ritan ... ...marked that, with the addition of a chaplain, it would have been a perfect Cromwellian troop, he observed that he would have been glad to add a chapla... ...ress and elsewhere seemed to me at a discount. It was like the speeches of Cromwell compared with those of an ordinary king. As for his tact and prude...

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...’s mind was unsound. Everyone who con- fronted him personally, from Oliver Cromwell down to county magistrates and jailers, seems to have ac- knowledg... ...power of the Holy Spirit on the second evening of November, 1829. Madison, Connecticut, 1830. I select this case because it shows how in these in- ner... ...ocious tortures with which the Anabaptist leaders were put to death; and a Cromwell praises the Lord for delivering his enemies into his hands for “ex... ...t when it came to non-resistance. Christ himself was fierce upon occasion. Cromwells, Stonewall Jacksons, Gordons, show that Christians can be strong ...

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... length there were “praying Indi ans,” and, as the General Court wrote to Cromwell, the “work is brought to this perfection, that some of the Indians... ...hip, leaning, still, against the sky.” Rising at an equal height with the Connecticut, the Merrimack reaches the sea by a course only half as long, a... ...away of its banks. The influence of the Pawtucket Dam is felt as far up as Cromwell’s Falls, and many 66 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers think th... ...st surveyed in 1652. The first settlers of Massachusetts supposed that the Connecticut, in one part of its course, ran northwest, “so near the great l... ...the Potomac was thought to come out of or from very near it. Afterward the Connecticut came so near the course of the Merrimack that, with a little pa... ... picturesque and luxurious mode of fishing was for merly practised on the Connecticut, at Bellows Falls, where a large rock divides the stream. “On t... ...he 18th of April, 1725. He was the son of “an ensign in the army of Oliver Cromwell, who came to this country, and settled at Dunstable, where he died... ...od the house of old John Lovewell, who was an ensign in the army of Oliver Cromwell, and the father of “famous Captain Lovewell.” He settled here befo... ...cutting off the pine cones, and letting them fall to the ground. We passed Cromwell’s Falls, the first we met with on this river, this forenoon, by me...

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...try Churchyard.” The “Village Hampdens,” the “mute, inglorious Miltons,” and Cromwells, “guiltless of” their “country’s blood,” were yet unborn. “Perc... ...rhaps the tent poles. And not long since, similar beds were spread along the Connecticut, the Hudson, and the Delaware, and longer still ago, by the T...

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...e arbiter of their differences. The circum- stances of the dispute between Connecticut and Pennsylva- nia, respecting the land at Wyoming, admonish us... ... the court decided in favor of Pennsylvania. 29 The Federalist Papers But Connecticut gave strong indications of dissatisfaction with that determinat... ...lish their own pre- tensions. These were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. New Jersey and Rhode Island, upon all occa- sions, discovered ... ... submitted to by the tributary States. The relative situation of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey would afford an example of this kind. New York,... ...iment in the way, to distinguish the cus- tomers in our own markets. Would Connecticut and New Jersey long submit to be taxed by New York for her excl... ...r late convulsions, if the malcontents had been headed by a Caesar or by a Cromwell? Who can predict what effect a des- potism, established in Massach...

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...rating her scientific, literary, and political worthies, Shaks peare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and others, speak next of her Christian heroes,... ...ar northern hills, which has winged its way over the Green Mountains and the Connecticut, shot like an arrow through the township within ten minutes, ... ...ed with me some long winter evenings. One of the last of the philosophers, — Connecticut gave him to the world, — he peddled first her wares, afterward... ...le tree wood, which had stood in a farmer’s kitchen for sixty years, first in Connecticut, and afterward in Massachusetts, — from an egg deposited in t...

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...civil war, in which he had borne some share as a cornet of dragoons, under Cromwell. But when the ambitious designs of his leader began to develop the... ...estimony, in the negative. Here is a note relating to a suit of his in the Connecticut courts, 79 Hawthorne which was delivered me from that gentlema... ... that I doubt whether he would refuse a cup of kindness with either Oliver Cromwell or John Hancock,—to say nothing of any democrat now upon the stage...

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..., there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, and the ear loves... ...nd themselves! These flatter not. I do not wonder that these men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the G... ...trength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. “A man” said Oliver Cromwell “never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.” Dr... ...stem to gyrate round it; as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus, or Cromwell, does for a time, and every man of truth, like Plato or Paul, does...

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...ting her scientific, literary, and political worthies, Shakespeare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and others, speak next of her Chris tian heroes,... ... northern hills, which has winged its way over the Green Mountains and the Connecticut, shot like an arrow through the township within ten minutes, an...

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...18;000 a-year; that of New Hampshire and Rhode Island, £3500 each; that of Connecticut, £4000; that of New York and Pennsylvania, £4500 each; that of ... ...mblies had not only the legislative, but a part of the executive power. In Connecticut and Rhode Island, they elected the governor. In the other colon... ...at trade was very considerable. In the Dutch war, during the government of Cromwell, her navy was superior to that of Holland; and in that which broke... ...standing army of Caesar destroyed the Roman republic. The standing army of Cromwell turned the long parliament out of doors. But where the sovereign i...