Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne Parts of Virginia; doe, by these Presents, solemnly and
mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience.
For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common pursuit and
mutually shared privations and perils.
They
mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we
mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
So the historians of this class, by
mutually destroying one another's positions, destroy the understanding of the force which produces events, and furnish no reply to history's essential question.
It is an established doctrine on the subject of treaties, that all the articles are
mutually conditions of each other; that a breach of any one article is a breach of the whole treaty; and that a breach, committed by either of the parties, absolves the others, and authorizes them, if they please, to pronounce the compact violated and void.
At the very same time, they
mutually execrate their masters when viewed separately.
To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will
mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations and the bitterness of their invectives.
Between Elizabeth and Charlotte there was a restraint which kept them
mutually silent on the subject; and Elizabeth felt persuaded that no real confidence could ever subsist between them again.
We remained thus
mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again.
We seemed, indeed, to be
mutually pleased with each other, and managed to maintain between us a cheerful and animated though not very profound conversation.
Franklin and I had both talked of foreign politics, till we could talk no longer, and had then
mutually fallen asleep in the heat of the sun.