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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... scholars at the universities . President Chauncy , as professor of Greek , or Hebrew , had no superiour , and might have had any preferment in the national church , if he had become subservient to the views of archbishop Laud . Norton ...
... scholars at the universities . President Chauncy , as professor of Greek , or Hebrew , had no superiour , and might have had any preferment in the national church , if he had become subservient to the views of archbishop Laud . Norton ...
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... scholars who excelled in polite learning . Philological inquiries grew fashionable , and very excellent productions appeared from the hands of gentlemen in civil life , as well as from the clergy . It is true that these were days of ...
... scholars who excelled in polite learning . Philological inquiries grew fashionable , and very excellent productions appeared from the hands of gentlemen in civil life , as well as from the clergy . It is true that these were days of ...
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... scholars . In 1723 he was ordained , colleague pastor with the famous Mr. Bradstreet , and continued in the ministry till his death , 1774 . He left a few printed discourses , chiefly occa- sional , and his character was respectable as ...
... scholars . In 1723 he was ordained , colleague pastor with the famous Mr. Bradstreet , and continued in the ministry till his death , 1774 . He left a few printed discourses , chiefly occa- sional , and his character was respectable as ...
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... scholar . It is evident that he had good abilities for a polemical divine from his Defence of the nine pro- position which were so many points of church disci- pline . In this work he was assisted by Mr. Shep- herd of Cambridge . * In ...
... scholar . It is evident that he had good abilities for a polemical divine from his Defence of the nine pro- position which were so many points of church disci- pline . In this work he was assisted by Mr. Shep- herd of Cambridge . * In ...
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... scholars and men of taste . He was a fine classical scholar , and excelled in poetry as well as prose . It was much regretted that he did not publish more , as what he did publish was so acceptable . His sermon upon the good man would ...
... scholars and men of taste . He was a fine classical scholar , and excelled in poetry as well as prose . It was much regretted that he did not publish more , as what he did publish was so acceptable . His sermon upon the good man would ...
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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.