The Blue Laws of Connecticut:: A Collection of the Earliest Statutes and Judicial Proceedings of that Colony; Being an Exhibition of the Rigorous Morals and Legislation of the Puritans

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Duane Rulison, 1861 - 235 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 69 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Pàgina 163 - It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general...
Pàgina 41 - Forasmuch as it hath pleased the Almighty God by the wise disposition of his divine providence so to Order and dispose of things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor...
Pàgina 53 - THE free fruition of such liberties, immunities, and privileges as humanity, civility, and Christianity call for as due to every man in his place and proportion...
Pàgina 83 - ... so much learning, as may inable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capitall lawes uppon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
Pàgina 207 - All having spoken their apprehensions, it was agreed upon, and Mr. Robert Newman was desired to write it as an order whereunto every one that hereafter should be admitted here as planters, should submit, and testify the same by subscribing their names to the order: Namely, that church members only shall be free burgesses, and that they only shall choose magistrates and officers among themselves...
Pàgina 163 - ... not oppressed by paying much more than they can have them taught for in other townes; and it is further ordered, that where any towne shall increase to the number of one hundred families or...
Pàgina 82 - Forasmuch as the good education of children is of singular behoof and benefit to any commonwealth; and whereas many parents and masters are too indulgent and negligent of their duty in that kind.
Pàgina 231 - ... most of all suffered to declare themselves freely, and are only opposed by arguments in discourse, there they least of all desire to come, and we are informed that they begin to...
Pàgina 123 - ... parents or masters shall give them due correction, and that in the presence of some officer...

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