Memoirs of the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D.D.: Founder and President of Dartmouth College and Moor's Charity SchoolEdward Little & Company, and sold at their book store, Market Square, C. Norris & Company, printers, 1811 - 336 pages |
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... important : as the brethren of the human race , christians are under obligations to spread the gospel among the heathen ; because it is a treasure committed to them by Jesus Christ , to be communicated to all , where they may have ...
... important : as the brethren of the human race , christians are under obligations to spread the gospel among the heathen ; because it is a treasure committed to them by Jesus Christ , to be communicated to all , where they may have ...
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... important work . ( d ) Before this much had been done , by pious and charitable individuals and societies , to christian- ize the heathen , by sending among them English missionaries . But the difficulty in learning their several ...
... important work . ( d ) Before this much had been done , by pious and charitable individuals and societies , to christian- ize the heathen , by sending among them English missionaries . But the difficulty in learning their several ...
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... important and interesting subjects . " 66 66 66 Such a number of youth , taken from the midst of savage life , attending with decency and de- votion upon the duties of religion , was a new and pleasing spectacle . The progress of his ...
... important and interesting subjects . " 66 66 66 Such a number of youth , taken from the midst of savage life , attending with decency and de- votion upon the duties of religion , was a new and pleasing spectacle . The progress of his ...
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... important undertaking . The whole number of Mohawks and Oneida children , received into the several schools , a- mounted to one hundred and twenty seven . They generally appeared fond of instruction , and made pleasing progress . The ...
... important undertaking . The whole number of Mohawks and Oneida children , received into the several schools , a- mounted to one hundred and twenty seven . They generally appeared fond of instruction , and made pleasing progress . The ...
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... importance of his subject . He usually wrote his sermons , but could extemporize with readi- ness . He was devout and solemn in prayer ; in private life , agreeable and exemplary ; easy and unassuming in conversation , his thoughts were ...
... importance of his subject . He usually wrote his sermons , but could extemporize with readi- ness . He was devout and solemn in prayer ; in private life , agreeable and exemplary ; easy and unassuming in conversation , his thoughts were ...
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Page 28 - And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say : — " Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths :" for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 181 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 155 - He shall pour the water out of his buckets, And his seed shall be in many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.
Page 187 - Know ye, therefore, that We, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said...
Page 80 - O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me ! If a man die, shall he live again ? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Page 180 - Act. in as full and ample a manner to all intents and purposes as if the same privileges and protections were repeated and re-enacted in this Act.
Page 105 - And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands ; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Page 101 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 176 - Offers which have been generously made in the several Governments in America to encourage and invite the settlement of said School among them for their own private emolument, and the increase of Learning in their respective places as well as for the furtherance of the general design in view.
Page 185 - Hampshire (and not excluding any person of any religious denomination whatsoever from free and equal liberty and advantage of education, or from any of the liberties and privileges or immunities of the said College on account of his or their speculative sentiments in religion, and of his or their being of a religious profession different from the said Trustees of the said Dartmouth College...