 | William Smith Porter - 1663 - 196 σελίδες
...humility, disinterestedness, and generosity, as for his intellectual attainments and exemplary deportment. His parishioners were his children, and they venerated...tradition among us, that the country could never perish so long as Eliot was alive." Richard Baxter, the celebrated English clergyman, in a letter to Eliot,... | |
 | 1837 - 424 σελίδες
...and glory. So deep was the sentiment of reverence for his character, that Mather observes, ' We had a tradition among us, that the country could never perish as long as Eliot was alive.' One, who for a long series of years had filled so large a space with eminent usefulness, on whom the... | |
 | Convers Francis - 1840 - 384 σελίδες
...and glory. So deep was the sentiment of reverence for his character, that Mather observes, " We had a tradition among us, that the country could never perish as long as Eliot was alive." One, who for a long series of years had filled so large a space with eminent usefulness, on whom the... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1836 - 386 σελίδες
...and glory. So deep was the sentiment of reverence for his character, that Mather observes, " We had a tradition among us, that the country could never perish as long as Eliot was alive." One, who for a long series of years had filled so large a space with eminent usefulness, on whom the... | |
 | Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn - 1850 - 46 σελίδες
...humility, disinterestedness, and generosity, as for his intellectual attainments and exemplary deportment. His parishioners were his children, and they venerated...were his services considered, that Mather remarks, 3 " There was a tradition among us, that the country could never perish so long as Eliot was alive."... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1853 - 732 σελίδες
...is now rejoicing with!" Bereaved New-England, where are thy tears at this ill-boding funeral? We had a tradition among us, " That the country could never perish as long as Eliot was alive." But into whose hands must this Hippo fall, now the Austin of it is taken away? Our Elisha is gone,... | |
 | 1853 - 802 σελίδες
...Roxbury Church for nearly sixty years, and who was held in such respect that Mather remarks of him, " there was a tradition among us, that the country could never perish as long as Elliot was alive/' The memorial to Elliot has not yet been completed, while another monument is now... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1855 - 680 σελίδες
...now rejoicing with !'' Bereaved New-England, where are thy tears at this ill-boding funeral? We had a tradition among us, " That the country could never perish as long as Eliot was alive." But into whose hands must this Hippo fall, now the Austin of it is taken away? Our Elisha is gone,... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1855 - 676 σελίδες
...now rejoicing with I" Bereaved New-England, where are thy tears at this ill-boding funeral? We had a tradition among us, " That the country could never perish' as long as Eliot was alive." But into whose hands must this Hippo fall, now the Austin of it is taken away? Our Elisha is gone,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 814 σελίδες
...bewailed his death as a great and general calamity ; and Cotton Mather tells us : " Wo had a tradition that the country could never perish as long as Eliot was alive." — A list of the published works of Mr. Eliot may be found in his life, by the Rev. Convere Francis,... | |
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Bereaved New-England, where are thy Tears, at this Ill-boding Funeral? We had a Tradition among us, "That the Country could never perish, as long as Eliot was alive." But into whose Hands must this Hippo fall, now the Austin of it is taken away? Our Elisha... 
