“A Description of New England,” etc., London, 1616.
— from Captain John Smith by Charles Dudley Warner

{126} XIII MONISM A LL systems of philosophy that reject the idea of an intelligent First Cause, which alone is self-existent, and whose being is of a higher order than that of aught else,—base their denial on the assumption that no such distinction of nature either exists or is possible,—that there is but one reality, namely the substance whereof the sensible world
— from The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John Gerard

[370] As late as May, 1775, after the bloody affair of Concord and Lexington, Mr. Bancroft remarks: "The delegates of New England, especially those from Massachusetts, could bring no remedy to the prevailing indecision (in the Continental Congress), for they suffered from insinuations that they represented a people who were republican in their principles of government and fanatics in religion, and they wisely avoided the appearance of importunity or excess in their demands.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

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— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

And here we come to the remarkable fact that the women who, with its apostles and elders, founded Mormondom, were the Puritan daughters of New England, even as were their compeer brothers its sons.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

They're tew greasy tew kindle a fire with, an I dunno o' nothin else ez
— from The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shays' Rebellion by Edward Bellamy

These deductions, which have received further support in the discovery of new elements endowed not only with chemical but even with physical properties, which were foreseen by the law of periodicity, are well known; so I need not dwell upon the subject, and may pass to the consideration of oxides.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Upon the bench under St. Bartholomew's Church sate Wriothesley, chancellor of England, the old Duke of Norfolk," etc. etc.... Strange times, indeed!
— from Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook