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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Adams who had gone hand in hand with him during the revolu . tion now forsook him , though he yet received the respect , attentions and caresses of those , who thought him not more venerable for age , than he was for his attachment to ...
Adams who had gone hand in hand with him during the revolu . tion now forsook him , though he yet received the respect , attentions and caresses of those , who thought him not more venerable for age , than he was for his attachment to ...
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The people had gone to another extreme in opposi . tion to the platform : more so than the pastor they accused . They meant to reduce it to a mere piece ot parchment , accerding to the insurgent spirit that was then raging .
The people had gone to another extreme in opposi . tion to the platform : more so than the pastor they accused . They meant to reduce it to a mere piece ot parchment , accerding to the insurgent spirit that was then raging .
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Few of our New England divines have surpassed him in clearness of percep . tion , comprehension of understanding or soundness of judgment . The simplicity of his manners was peculiar , and he had a softness and benevolence in his ...
Few of our New England divines have surpassed him in clearness of percep . tion , comprehension of understanding or soundness of judgment . The simplicity of his manners was peculiar , and he had a softness and benevolence in his ...
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... under his administra . tion , the province enjoyed as much peace and prosperity , as in the same number of years during that century : The strength of intellect which marked the character and proceedings of Burnet ; that extensive ...
... under his administra . tion , the province enjoyed as much peace and prosperity , as in the same number of years during that century : The strength of intellect which marked the character and proceedings of Burnet ; that extensive ...
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His sermons were excellent ; and his grave manner , just emphasis , and distinct articulation , were more striking to well - informed hearers , than those graces of elocu . tion , which render some preachers popular , or which make the ...
His sermons were excellent ; and his grave manner , just emphasis , and distinct articulation , were more striking to well - informed hearers , than those graces of elocu . tion , which render some preachers popular , or which make 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.