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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الصفحة vi
What the preacher says he doubtless believes ; but how often is his opinion different from that of his audience ? How many funeral orators paint nothing ? Such performances require a nice and delicate pencil to finish ; but , in general ...
What the preacher says he doubtless believes ; but how often is his opinion different from that of his audience ? How many funeral orators paint nothing ? Such performances require a nice and delicate pencil to finish ; but , in general ...
الصفحة vii
A preacher is to say nothing but good of the dead ; a writer of lives nothing but the truth ; for he exhibits men as they were . The preacher is apt to give a general view of the characters ; it is the object of the biographer to enter ...
A preacher is to say nothing but good of the dead ; a writer of lives nothing but the truth ; for he exhibits men as they were . The preacher is apt to give a general view of the characters ; it is the object of the biographer to enter ...
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ADAMS Amos , minister of the first church in Roxbury , was a very popular preacher , having a voice uncommonly sonorous and plaintive . The energy of his manner in the pulpit is often mentioned by those who sat under his ministry .
ADAMS Amos , minister of the first church in Roxbury , was a very popular preacher , having a voice uncommonly sonorous and plaintive . The energy of his manner in the pulpit is often mentioned by those who sat under his ministry .
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... to the church of Christ in Wrentham ; and likewise preaching one part of the Lord's day at Frostendon for many years . And at that time , I suppose Mr. Thomas King , after Mr. Phillips ' great decay , supplied at , Wrentham .
... to the church of Christ in Wrentham ; and likewise preaching one part of the Lord's day at Frostendon for many years . And at that time , I suppose Mr. Thomas King , after Mr. Phillips ' great decay , supplied at , Wrentham .
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His manner of preaching was plain , practical and impressive . It is said , that in the younger part of life he excelled as a publick speaker . Many of the present generation remember him as a man venerable for his piety , his prudence ...
His manner of preaching was plain , practical and impressive . It is said , that in the younger part of life he excelled as a publick speaker . Many of the present generation remember him as a man venerable for his piety , his prudence ...
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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.