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7016 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pilgrim Sincere, we have been talking with pilgrims and residents of Canaan, and now we have come to see you. Will you tell us something that will enable us to gain a freehold in Canaan? We have met many poor pilgrims who say they have never yet gained a clear title to a home he... |
7016 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And at this I smote him with the sword of truth. He ran away and got out his arrows to shoot at me as before; but I simply held up the shield, and not one hurt me [Romans 16:20]. Then I ran after him with all my might and chased him away--and I haven't had a real encounter with ... |
7016 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes ? Put that down then as a settled fact. Never allow yourself to doubt a point that has been settled. Let it stay settled. Next ask yourself if you believe God is true to His word, if you believe He will do what He promised. If you say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
7016 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I really and truly consecrated? Where are all my joyful feelings? Why do I feel this way? Surely something is wrong."
}
] |
7016 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith"
}
] |
7016 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pilgrim Caleb, do tell us what you were drinking and how we may obtain some of the same wine."
}
] |
7016 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing is so refreshing as the Wine of Prayer. The whole soul is caught up, invigorated, revitalized, inspired. It gives mighty strength. Giants tremble and quake and run for their lives when they see a pilgrim fresh from his wine-cask move upon them. Blessed be Immanuel! Glory... |
7016 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May we walk with you in the way? And may we inquire about your home in Canaan, and why it is you seem so happy and calm? We are only a few days over the Jordan, and are trying to learn all we can of the land. Where did you get those beautiful flowers in your hands? Tell us your ... |
7016 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brother H,"
}
] |
7016 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God (Romans 8:28)."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All things means _all things_. The Christian who gives up all is certain of God's continual care and protection. He can not expect to escape trouble or ... |
7016 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, suppose you should get sick, or suppose something should happen, said her rich friend."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I never supposes, said the poor woman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is what is the matter with you, you supposes and su... |
472532 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, I do not; nor do I know Plato's Dialogues,"
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Letters Patent to Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, and others, for two several Colonies and Plantations, to be made in Virginia, and other parts and Territories of America. The patentees were authorized"
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "James Cittie"
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kingdom of Virginia,"
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Going from the said estuary called Delaware Bay in a right line in the degree aforesaid to the true meridian of the first fountain of the river Potomac, then tending downward towards the south to the farther bank of the said river and following it to where it faces the western a... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The territory contained within the charters erecting the colonies of Maryland ... are hereby ceded, released, and forever confirmed to the people of those colonies ..."
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maryland and Virginia Start New Round in Oyster War --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pentagon Area a No Man's Land."
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "from a general requirement laid upon counties to employ a weaver and set up a public loom. In this year of 1666 Stafford sent a delegate to the General Assembly. The County, however, must have been in existence earlier since there is a record of the Stafford County Court Book wh... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The citizens of each State, respectively, shall have full property rights in the shores of Patowmack river adjoining their land...."
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to the United States for the permanent seat of the general government. Section I of this Act recited the motive:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whereas the equal and common benefits resulting from the administration of the general government will be best diffused, an... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then beginning the first of the said four lines of experiment at the point on Hunting Creek where the said southeast course shall have struck the same, and running to the said first line due northwest 10 miles; thence the second line into Maryland due northeast 10 miles; thence ... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Original Boundary Stones of the District of Columbia"
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The experience of more than forty years seems to have demonstrated that the cession of the county and town of Alexandria was unnecessary for any of the purposes of a seat of government, mischievous to the interests of the State at large, and especially injurious to the people of... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remonstrance"
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[31] It was not until the next year, however, that Virginia got around to extending its jurisdiction over the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On March 13, 1847,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Virgi... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That the territory so retroceded and accepted, comprising the county of Alexandria, shall constitute a new county, retaining the name of the county of Alexandria, the court-house whereof shall be in the Town of Alexandria where the courts now sit...."
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An Act for erecting a town at Hunting Creek warehouse, in the county of Fairfax."
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An Act for enlarging the town of Alexandria in the county of Fairfax."
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An Act for incorporating the town of Alexandria in the County of Fairfax."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An Act to confirm certain sales and leases by the trustees of the town of Alexandria and to enlarge said town...."
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beginning at Great Hunting Creek and running parallel with Fairfax street to four mile run or creek so as to intersect King street when extended one mile west of the courthouse, thence eastwardly down the said creek or run to its confluence with the Potomac river, thence southwa... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The line of the City of Alexandria shall be extended on the north and west as follows: Beginning in the Potomac River at a point distant northerly in the direction of Fairfax Street four hundred nineteen feet and two inches from the north line of the present corporate limits of ... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beginning in the Potomac River, at a point distant northerly, in the direction of Fairfax Street five hundred and ninety five feet and nine inches from the north line of Montgomery street, as now established in said city, and extended into said river; and running thence westerly... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Annexation of a Portion of Arlington County by the City of Alexandria in 1915,"
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that"
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The low water mark on the Potomac to which Virginia has a right in the soil, is to be measured ... from low-water mark at one headland to low water at another, without following indentations, bays, creeks, inlets, or affluent rivers. Virginia is entitled not only to full dominio... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beginning at the corner of Alexandria and Fairfax Counties on J. C. DePutron's farm; thence to the corner of W. H. Ellison and Koon [sic] on D. H. Barrett's line; thence to the corner of Sewell and Hollidge, on the new cut road; thence to the corner of J. E. Birch and H. J. Engl... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beginning at a large planted stone on the estate of the late J. C. DePutron, at the original western corner of the District of Columbia, which is also at the corner of Fairfax and Arlington counties, and at the corner of the Town of Falls Church; thence with the boundary of said... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beginning at the intersection of the north corporate limits of Alexandria Virginia with the west shore of the Potomac River, thence extending N. 80° 39' W. along said north boundary line to the northwest corner of the corporate limits as the same was established prior to the yea... |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remonstrance of ... Against the Bill to Annex the city and county of Alexandria, to the District of Columbia."
}
] |
36902 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Report of the District of Columbia--Virginia Boundary Commission."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Establishing a Boundary Line Between the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia."
}
] |
774730 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that true?"
}
] |
521919 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you make a guess as to the nature of the poison?"
}
] |
275635 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It shines for all,"
}
] |
399120 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was just on my way over to your house,"
}
] |
641659 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The impudence of that chap is beyond belief,"
}
] |
381045 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll accept your apology when you've had time to think it all over,"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy habitations, O Israel!"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Rawson, said he,"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us look into them, said I to Cousin Rebecca;"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I quite agree, said he,"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Teach me, my God, thy love to know, That this new light, which now I see, May both the work and workman show; Then by the sunbeams I will climb to thee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, they are not Sir Thomas's gift, for young Pike hath just left them. Whereat, a... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure thou didst flourish once, and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodged in thy living towers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And still a new succession sings and flie... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, Sir Thomas, quoth Mr. Richardson,"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been there often, to small profit. The spirit which thou persecutest testifieth against thee and thy meeting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Or the swine of the Gadarenes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I thank God that even in that dark season my heart relented at the sight of the poor starving women and children, chased from place to place like partridges. Even the Indian fighters, I found, had sorrows of their own, and grievous wrongs to avenge; and I do believe, if we h... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And were you kindly treated by this chief?"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He said he did for a long time refuse to dig up his hatchet, and make war upon the whites, but that he could not sit idle in his wigwam, while his young men were gone upon their war-path. The spirit of his dead child did moreover speak to him from the land of souls, and chide hi... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Will of Newiehawannock! For thy sad and cruel fall, And the bringing in of the Mohogs, May the Lord forgive us all!"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Elnathan, said Rebecca, as we walked home,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He reminds me, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My head is anointed with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life."
... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Woe to the persecutors! Woe to them who for a pretence make long prayers! Humble yourselves, for this is the day of the Lord's power, and I am sent as a sign among you! As she looked towards me I knew her to be the Quaker maiden, Margaret Brewster."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just after the war was over, said be,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Atkinson's Indian, said Captain Sewall,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you content to live as a servant? asked Rebecca."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would you lea... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How easy it is to make others happy, and ourselves also!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me."
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What time they wax warm they vanish; when it is hot they are consumed out of their place. The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing and perish."
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Murther! murther!"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "&c. He then went on to say that he had lived to see strange times, when such as I did venture to oppose themselves to sober and grave people, and to despise authority, and encourage rebellion and disorder; and bade me take heed lest all such be numbered with the cursed children ... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A likerous thing is wine, and drunkenness Is full of striving and of wretchedness. O drunken man! disfigured is thy face, Sour is thy breath, foul art then to embrace; Thy tongue is lost, and all thine honest care, For drunkenness is very sepulture Of man's wit and his discretio... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That the Devil helpeth the heathen in this matter, I do myself know for a certainty, said Caleb Powell;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Hull, the minister of the place, who was a lodger in the house, said he had heard one Foxwell, a reputable planter at Saco, late... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was, perhaps, for some such reason, said Rebecca,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pray, how was that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must know, answered our host,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That a petition having been sent to the C... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Lord! how manifold are thy works in wisdom hast thou made them all, and the earth is full of thy riches."
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here are my mines. So that afterwards, when any one prospered greatly in his estate, it was said of him by his neighbors,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has been working Peter Preble's mine."
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Imitation of Christ. Hereupon, Mr. Godfrey asked if there was aught evil in the book. The minister said it was written by a monk, and was full of heresy, favoring both the Quakers and the Papists; but Mr. Godfrey told him it had been rendered into the English tongue, and pri... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Thankful! Thankful! John Gibbins has appeared to us! His spirit is in the barn!"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John, said my cousin, in a quick, choking voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Thankful, don't you know me? I'm alive; but the folks in the barn will have it that I 'm a ghost,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O John, you are alive!"
},
{
"f... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I now know, said she,"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Anna, from her loving cousin, Christopher Gardiner, being the first rose that hath blossomed this season in the College garden. St. Omer's, June, 1630."
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then let the Paynim work his will, Let death unbind my chain, Ere down yon blue Carpathian hill The sunset falls again!"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For my part, he continued, in a serious manner,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no notion that the pulpit is my place; I like the open fields and sky better than the grandest churches of man's building; and when the wind sounds in the great grove of pines on th... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The gracious gods, to crown my bliss, Have granted this, and more than this,-- They promise me a modest spouse, To light my hearth and keep my house. I ask no more than, free from strife, To hold these blessings all my life!"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did it seem to go up, or down? inquired she, anxiously; and on my telling her that the sound went downward, she set up a sad cry, and they all came fleeing into the corn-loft, the girls bouncing upon my bed, and hiding under the blanket, and the old woman praying and groaning, a... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet many wiser men than Caleb Powell do deny the same, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True, answered he;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told the story of the disturbance at Strawberry Bank the night before, and how so silly a thing as a rollin... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WILLIAM FULLER."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vera copea:"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thomas Coleman's wife testifies that Goody Cole did repeat to another the very words which passed between herself and her husband, in their own house, in private; and Thomas Ormsby, the constable of Salisbury, testifies, that when he did strip Eunice Cole of her shift, to be whi... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cronk, cronk, cronk! These birds, the Doctor saith, do go northward in March to hatch their broods in the great bogs and on the desolate islands, and fly back again when the cold season approacheth. Our worthy guest improved the occasion to speak of the care and goodness of God ... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We do all, he continued,"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That your Petitioner, being a soldier under Captain Henchman, during their abode at Concord, Captain H., under pretence of your petitioner's profanation of the Sabhath, had sentenced your petitioner to lose a fortnight's pay. Now, the thing that was alleged against your petition... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the witch!"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but if it were indeed the work of Satan, it could, he did believe, do no harm to sincere and godly people, who lived sober and prayerful lives, and kept themselves busy in doing good. The doers of the Word seldom fell into the snare of the Devil's enchantments. He might be compa... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How you know Amesbury wolf? asked the Indian."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, said Mr. Saltonstall,"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do thyself no harm."
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thus have the fairest hopes deceived the eye Of the big-swoln expectants standing by So the proud ship, after a little turn, Sinks in the ocean's arms to find its urn: Thus hath the heir to many thousands born Been in an instant from the mother torn; Even thus thy infant cheek b... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wines from France and Muscovado too;"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But they deny the Scriptures, cried Mr. Ward,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not so understand them, said Leonard;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think they do diligently study the Scripture, and seek t... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This all Indian land. The Great Spirit made it for Indians. He made the great river for them, and birch-trees to make their canoes of. All the fish in the ponds, and all the pigeons and deer and squirrels he made for Indians. He made land for white men too; but they left it, and... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear me, says the woman, looking very dismal,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By this time we were all at the door, the Deacon and Aunt Prudence among the rest, when Moses, like a great lout as he is, pulled off his woollen cap and tossed it up in the air, crying out,... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thy visit and kind words, she continued,"
}
] |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dare he be now!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You rascal, said Mr. Corbet,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beg pardon, massa! said Sam, getting down from his pulpit, and rubbing his shoulder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How you think Sam ... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As for you who will neglect God's worship, go, and catch fish if you can. There were thirty men who thus left, and only five remained behind, and to these he said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will pray the Lord for you, that you may catch fish till you are weary... |
9590 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your brother Leonard hath gone off to them, and I dare say you will follow, if one of the ranters should take it into his head that you would make him a proper wife, or company-keeper, for there's never an honest marriage among them."
}
] |
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