A Biographical Dictionary: Containing a Brief Account of the First Settlers, and Other Eminent Characters Among the Magistrates, Ministers, Literary and Worthy Men, in New-Englandby Cushing and Appleton, Salem, and Edward Oliver, no. 70, State street, 1809 - 511 σελίδες |
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... studies at the South Grammar School , under the care of Mr. Lovell . He entered Harvard College A. D. 1736. The honours of that seminary he received in the years 1740 and 1743 . He made a very con- siderable progress in classical ...
... studies at the South Grammar School , under the care of Mr. Lovell . He entered Harvard College A. D. 1736. The honours of that seminary he received in the years 1740 and 1743 . He made a very con- siderable progress in classical ...
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... studies than upon affairs of civil life . His abilities were conspicuous in all -kinds of business , but his friends were fully per- suaded he would be more happy and more useful as a preacher of the gospel . Hence he accepted an ...
... studies than upon affairs of civil life . His abilities were conspicuous in all -kinds of business , but his friends were fully per- suaded he would be more happy and more useful as a preacher of the gospel . Hence he accepted an ...
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... studies , but went into the mercantile line of business . To increase his commercial corres . pondence , as well as to expand his mind , he spent several years in Great Britain , and upon the conti- nent , and gained testimonies of ...
... studies , but went into the mercantile line of business . To increase his commercial corres . pondence , as well as to expand his mind , he spent several years in Great Britain , and upon the conti- nent , and gained testimonies of ...
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... studies , and discovered- such talents for composition , so much taste and sentiment , that several of the best scholars among the clergy predicted his future excellence . Some part of this time he employed in instructing youth ; and ...
... studies , and discovered- such talents for composition , so much taste and sentiment , that several of the best scholars among the clergy predicted his future excellence . Some part of this time he employed in instructing youth ; and ...
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... studies . In 1742 , his zeal blazed in the cause of the great re- vival of religion , and he could not be confined to one spot of the vineyard , but went from place to place to encourage the work . He preached in dif- ferent parts of ...
... studies . In 1742 , his zeal blazed in the cause of the great re- vival of religion , and he could not be confined to one spot of the vineyard , but went from place to place to encourage the work . He preached in dif- ferent parts of ...
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Σελίδα 133 - Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work : for I am with you, saith the Lord of Hosts...
Σελίδα 154 - Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch ; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice.
Σελίδα 250 - We will not say, as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell Babylon — Farewell Rome ; but we will say, Farewell, dear England — Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there...
Σελίδα 319 - Having been initiated, in youth, in the doctrines of civil liberty, as they were taught by such men as Plato, Demosthenes, Cicero and other renowned persons among the ancients; and such as Sidney and Milton, Locke and Hoadley, among the moderns, I liked them; they seemed rational.
Σελίδα 205 - The Body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stripped of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will (as he believed) appear once more In a new And more beautiful Edition, Corrected and Amended By The Author.
Σελίδα 431 - Baptist, his harbinger, or, if he was ever there, had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the cloak rather than needlessly contend for the coat, though taken away without order. A little chimney is soon fired ; so was the Plymouth Captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper.
Σελίδα 250 - England, Farewell, Babylon! Farewell, Rome ! but we will say, Farewell, dear England ! Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there ! We do not go to New England as Separatists from the Church of England; though we cannot but separate from the corruptions in it. But we go to practise the positive part of Church reformation, and propagate the Gospel in America!
Σελίδα ii - Eliot, John. A Biographical Dictionary, containing a brief account of the First Settlers and other eminent characters among the Magistrates, Ministers, Literary, and worthy men in New England.
Σελίδα ii - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Σελίδα 331 - All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.