American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Articles for New Netherlands Colony (1624) from Chamber of Amsterdam: <They shall within their territory practice no other form of divine worship than that of the Reformed religion...and thus by their Christian life and conduct seek to draw the Indians and other blind people to the knowledge of God and His word, without, however, persecuting any on account of his faith, but leaving each one the use of his conscience.> 1624NN001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1624NN001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Articles for New Netherlands Colony,...

Warrant for William Ussling (December 21, 1624) to establish a General Company for Trade to Asia, Africa, America and Magellanica: <Gustavus Adolphus, by the Grace of God, King of Sweden...Know you, that...William Ussling has humbly...proved to us how a general trading company here from our kingdom of Sweden to Asia, Africa, America, and Magellanica could be established for the considerable improvement of our and the Crown's revenues and...has...promised to...organize this company using the utmost of his diligence and power, while he cherishes the certain hope that, with God's gracious blessing and help, it shall have a good beginning and progress as well...

George Fox (July 1624-January 13, 1691) was the founder of the Society of Friends, or "Quakers," 1652. After his conversion experience, 1646, he traveled extensively, ministering in England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, the West Indies and North America, often being imprisoned for his beliefs. William Penn, founder of the Pennsylvania Colony, was close friends with Fox, even traveling and preaching with him. Penn himself was imprisoned three times for his faith, once in the Tower of London for eight months. In 1694, George Fox wrote in his journal: <The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not...

Virginia House of Burgesses (March 5, 1624) ordinances of Jamestown: <1. That there shall be in every plantation, where the people use to meet for the worship of God, a house or room sequestered for that purpose, and not to be for any temporal use whatsoever, and a place...sequestered only to the burial of the dead. That whosoever shall absent himself from Divine service any Sunday without an allowable excuse shall forfeit a pound of tobacco, and he that absenteth himself a month shall forfeit 50 pound of tobacco. That there be an uniformity in our Church as near as may...

Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623-August 19, 1662) was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher. Known as the "Father of the Science of Hydrostatics," he helped develop the barometer, pioneered hydrodynamics and fluid mechanics, leading to his discovery of "Pascal's Principle," the basis of hydraulics. He made invaluable contributions in the areas of probability and differential calculus, with the invention of Pascal's triangle for calculating the coefficients of a binomial expansion. His influential religious works, emphasizing "the reasons of the heart" over dry logic and intellect, were titled Lettres Provinciales, 1656-57, and Pensees Sur La Religion, published posthumously in 1670. In Pensees,...