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 من الصفحات |
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FOR the credit of human nature , some men have appeared in every age , who adorned their lives by good actions , or their publick słations by the dignity , virtue , and splendid excellencies of their characters .
FOR the credit of human nature , some men have appeared in every age , who adorned their lives by good actions , or their publick słations by the dignity , virtue , and splendid excellencies of their characters .
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Philological inquiries grew fashionable , and very excellent productions appeared from the hands of gentlemen in civil life , as well as from the clergy . It is true that these were days of tranquillity , and such times are not ...
Philological inquiries grew fashionable , and very excellent productions appeared from the hands of gentlemen in civil life , as well as from the clergy . It is true that these were days of tranquillity , and such times are not ...
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His publications never appeared to satisfy the expectations of those who heard thm from the pulpit . They want his animated delivery . * a Mr. Adams was graduated at Cambridge , 1752 ,. * He printed several ordination sermons .
His publications never appeared to satisfy the expectations of those who heard thm from the pulpit . They want his animated delivery . * a Mr. Adams was graduated at Cambridge , 1752 ,. * He printed several ordination sermons .
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The same political cast of mind then appeared , which influenced his conduct afterwards . If he spake of men and manners it was freely to canvass them ; his conversation was in praise of old times , his manners were austere ...
The same political cast of mind then appeared , which influenced his conduct afterwards . If he spake of men and manners it was freely to canvass them ; his conversation was in praise of old times , his manners were austere ...
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When the stamp act was the subjcct of conversation , of public resentment , and succeeding tumults , Mr. Adams was one of those important eharacters , who appeared to oppose it in every step . He did not think it amiss to pull down the ...
When the stamp act was the subjcct of conversation , of public resentment , and succeeding tumults , Mr. Adams was one of those important eharacters , who appeared to oppose it in every step . He did not think it amiss to pull down the ...
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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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!
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 331 - All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.