The Life of Samuel Johnson, D.D.: The First President of King's College, in New York. Containing Many Interesting Anecdotes; a General View of the State of Religion and Learning in Connecticut During the Former Part of the Last Century; and an Account of the Institution and Rise of Yale College, Connecticut; and of King's (now Columbia) College, New-York, Band 1T. & J. Swords, 1805 - 208 Seiten |
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... mean an opinion of their tutors , that they despised them , and refused to pay them any marks of respect , openly com- plaining that they could learn nothing from such teachers . At length most of them , one after another , went off ...
... mean an opinion of their tutors , that they despised them , and refused to pay them any marks of respect , openly com- plaining that they could learn nothing from such teachers . At length most of them , one after another , went off ...
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... means the effect of indolence , or an aversion to business ; but merely of a regular plan that he had formed for rendering himself as useful as possible . The attainments he had hitherto made in literature he now considered in the light ...
... means the effect of indolence , or an aversion to business ; but merely of a regular plan that he had formed for rendering himself as useful as possible . The attainments he had hitherto made in literature he now considered in the light ...
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... means of the books which they had put into their hands , and per- suaded them to read . Accordingly , after for- mally resigning their respective places , in a few days they set out for Boston , proposing to em- bark from thence for ...
... means of the books which they had put into their hands , and per- suaded them to read . Accordingly , after for- mally resigning their respective places , in a few days they set out for Boston , proposing to em- bark from thence for ...
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... means , " to return home to Europe , and to give up his present expectations . " The Dean , being in- formed of this conversation by his good friend · the Bishop , and fully convinced that his whole plan was defeated , resolved to ...
... means , " to return home to Europe , and to give up his present expectations . " The Dean , being in- formed of this conversation by his good friend · the Bishop , and fully convinced that his whole plan was defeated , resolved to ...
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... means , removed ; and he became an entire convert to the Dean's philosophical system . It appeared to him to be the most effectual method for precluding scepticism , whatever use some writers may since have made of it ; and that it left ...
... means , removed ; and he became an entire convert to the Dean's philosophical system . It appeared to him to be the most effectual method for precluding scepticism , whatever use some writers may since have made of it ; and that it left ...
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