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
He was acquainted with those who were active in our publick concerns , and has been favoured with written accounts , that are strengthened ... In writing biography we ought to be very careful about taking the character from newspapers .
He was acquainted with those who were active in our publick concerns , and has been favoured with written accounts , that are strengthened ... In writing biography we ought to be very careful about taking the character from newspapers .
الصفحة vii
He has mostly written from one general mass of information , which he has been many years in col . lecting ; but where he has been indebted for principal facts he has pointed to the main source of his intelligence .
He has mostly written from one general mass of information , which he has been many years in col . lecting ; but where he has been indebted for principal facts he has pointed to the main source of his intelligence .
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A specimen of his abilities was ex . hibited in a letter written to a committee of the town of Boston , 1774 , when the Port Bill had an . nihilated their commerce . * Mr. Adams was obliged to leave Durham in the year 1778 ...
A specimen of his abilities was ex . hibited in a letter written to a committee of the town of Boston , 1774 , when the Port Bill had an . nihilated their commerce . * Mr. Adams was obliged to leave Durham in the year 1778 ...
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be written in letters of gold on monuments of marble , or rather to appear and shine forth from some genius of uncommon sublimity and equal to his own , But sufficient are his immortal writings to perpetuate his memory .
be written in letters of gold on monuments of marble , or rather to appear and shine forth from some genius of uncommon sublimity and equal to his own , But sufficient are his immortal writings to perpetuate his memory .
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... being a ready penman was often employed on committees to make reports , addresses , & c . and to vindicate the acts of the legislature . He assisted in writing most of the letters , which were peo . sent to the secretary of state .
... being a ready penman was often employed on committees to make reports , addresses , & c . and to vindicate the acts of the legislature . He assisted in writing most of the letters , which were peo . sent to the secretary of state .
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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.
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| العنوان | 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 |
| المؤلف | John Eliot |
| الناشر | by Cushing and Appleton, Salem, and Edward Oliver, no. 70, State street, 1809 |
| أصلي من | مكتبة نيويورك العامة |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 30 حزيران (يونيو) 2007 |
| عدد الصفحات | 511 من الصفحات |
| تصدير الاقتباس | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |