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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things occur in so strange a style . He was a man of unbounded fancy , astonishing memory , but of no judgment . With his marvellous stories he has , however , collected many facts , and it would be unpardonable if the author of this ...
things occur in so strange a style . He was a man of unbounded fancy , astonishing memory , but of no judgment . With his marvellous stories he has , however , collected many facts , and it would be unpardonable if the author of this ...
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... to one part of this biographical work , it is in doing justice to the characters of those who lived between the peace of Paris , and the commencement of the American revolution . The age of the writer made every thing impressive .
... to one part of this biographical work , it is in doing justice to the characters of those who lived between the peace of Paris , and the commencement of the American revolution . The age of the writer made every thing impressive .
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Every man who received a liberal education , who wore a band or black coat , and held a regular service on the Lord's day , was called hireling , thief , wolf , and any thing that would make him odious . They after this manner insulted ...
Every man who received a liberal education , who wore a band or black coat , and held a regular service on the Lord's day , was called hireling , thief , wolf , and any thing that would make him odious . They after this manner insulted ...
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... and preached the gospel according to the strictest sect of our forefathers ; but as one extreme succeeds another , the most cold indifference to every thing of a religious nature was visible in the inhabitants of Durham during the ...
... and preached the gospel according to the strictest sect of our forefathers ; but as one extreme succeeds another , the most cold indifference to every thing of a religious nature was visible in the inhabitants of Durham during the ...
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His ancestors were respectable , among the early planters of New England , but not sufficiently distinguished to be inserted in a genealogical list ; and every kind of genealogy he affected to despise , as a thing which gives birth to ...
His ancestors were respectable , among the early planters of New England , but not sufficiently distinguished to be inserted in a genealogical list ; and every kind of genealogy he affected to despise , as a thing which gives birth to ...
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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.