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 стор. |
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... political skill , and all that energy of character necessary for raising provinces into an empire . During the course of the war , the officers of the American army showed courage and magnanimity . They were brave , active , with a ...
... political skill , and all that energy of character necessary for raising provinces into an empire . During the course of the war , the officers of the American army showed courage and magnanimity . They were brave , active , with a ...
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... political influence , during the contests of the American revo- lution . He was born September , 1722 , in Roston . His ancestors were respectable , among the early planter New - England , but not sufficiently dis- tinguished to be ...
... political influence , during the contests of the American revo- lution . He was born September , 1722 , in Roston . His ancestors were respectable , among the early planter New - England , but not sufficiently dis- tinguished to be ...
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... political cast of mind then appeared , which influen- ced his conduct afterwards . If he spake of men and manners it was freely to canvass them ; his conver . sation was in praise of old times , his manners were austere , his remarks ...
... political cast of mind then appeared , which influen- ced his conduct afterwards . If he spake of men and manners it was freely to canvass them ; his conver . sation was in praise of old times , his manners were austere , his remarks ...
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... politicians of a later period , whose views must necessarily be more comprehen- sive , and whose object was to restrain rather than give a loose to popular feelings . It was their opin- ion , however , that he did worthily in those ...
... politicians of a later period , whose views must necessarily be more comprehen- sive , and whose object was to restrain rather than give a loose to popular feelings . It was their opin- ion , however , that he did worthily in those ...
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... political sen- timents , and united in their opposition to the claims of the British ministry . Mr. Adams had frequent- ly delivered his sentiments in the publick pa- pers ; and being a ready penman was often employ- ed on committees to ...
... political sen- timents , and united in their opposition to the claims of the British ministry . Mr. Adams had frequent- ly delivered his sentiments in the publick pa- pers ; and being a ready penman was often employ- ed on committees to ...
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Сторінка 207 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript 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.
Сторінка 135 - 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...
Сторінка 252 - 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...
Сторінка 429 - 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.
Сторінка 252 - 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 practice the positive part of church reformation, and propagate the Gospel in America.
Сторінка 333 - All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Сторінка 224 - America Painted to the Life. The true history of the Spaniards Proceedings in the Conquests of the Indians, and of their Civil Wars among themselves, from Columbus his first Discovery, to these later Times. As also, Of the Original Undertakings of the Advancement of Plantations into those parts; with a perfect Relation of our English Discoveries, shewing their Beginning, Progress and Continuance, from the Year 1628 to 1658...
Сторінка 157 - 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 142 - Ms. from 1779 until his death, and acting gov. in 1785. His signature being affixed to all public papers, as speaker of the house, caused him to be regarded in Great Britain as the leader of the Whigs in this country. Dr. Johnson, in his " Taxation no Tyranny," says, " One object of the Americans is said to be to adorn the brows of Mr.