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 YorkT. & J. Swords, 1824 - 209 Seiten |
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... opinion of his own abilities as a scholar . But after a year or two he met with a book , which his curiosity prompted him to pur- chase . This was Lord Bacon's Instauratio Magna , or Advancement of Learning , and per- haps the only copy ...
... opinion of his own abilities as a scholar . But after a year or two he met with a book , which his curiosity prompted him to pur- chase . This was Lord Bacon's Instauratio Magna , or Advancement of Learning , and per- haps the only copy ...
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... 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 , seeking ...
... 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 , seeking ...
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... opinion . That excellent writer proved , with an evidence that Mr. Johnson thought but little short of demonstration , that public worship car- ried on in the extempore way , was wrong and unscriptural : and that pre - conceived , well ...
... opinion . That excellent writer proved , with an evidence that Mr. Johnson thought but little short of demonstration , that public worship car- ried on in the extempore way , was wrong and unscriptural : and that pre - conceived , well ...
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... opinion , that such a popular form of eccle- siastical discipline could not long subsist in such a manner as to answer the main ends of govern- ment ; but must , from the very nature of it , soon crumble to pieces , especially in a ...
... opinion , that such a popular form of eccle- siastical discipline could not long subsist in such a manner as to answer the main ends of govern- ment ; but must , from the very nature of it , soon crumble to pieces , especially in a ...
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... opinion , a dishonour to the Christian and Episco- pal nation of England , that America , which had been planted for one hundred years , and con- tained a large number of Episcopal congrega- tions , should still be without some of the ...
... opinion , a dishonour to the Christian and Episco- pal nation of England , that America , which had been planted for one hundred years , and con- tained a large number of Episcopal congrega- tions , should still be without some of the ...
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Seite 51 - He has seduced several of the hopefullest young clergymen, and others here, many of them well provided for, and all of them in the fairest way of preferment ; but, in England, his conquests are greater, and, I doubt, will spread very far this winter.
Seite 175 - God shall be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets ; and then the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ and he shall reign for ever (Apoc.
Seite 51 - Indian scholars and missionaries, where he most exorbitantly proposeth a whole hundred pounds a year for himself, forty pounds for a fellow, and ten for a student. His heart will break, if his deanery be not taken from him, and left to your Excellency's disposal. I discourage him by the coldness of courts and ministers, who will interpret all this as impossible and a vision ; but nothing will do.
Seite 171 - I think myself, at present, in a very bad situation: Bishop of a vast country, without power, or influence, or any means of promoting true religion; sequestered from the people over whom I have the care, and must never hope to see. I should be tempted to throw off all this care quite, were it not for the sake of preserving even the appearance of an Episcopal Church in the Plantations.
Seite 169 - The maintenance of such prelates not to be at the charge of the colonies. 4. No bishops are intended to be settled in places where the government is in the hands of Dissenters, as in New England, &c., but authority to be given only to ordain clergy for such Church of England congregations as are among them, and to inspect into the manners and behavior of such clergy, and to confirm the members thereof.
Seite 169 - That nothing is desired for such bishops that may in the least interfere with the dignity, or authority, or interest of the governor, or any other officer of state. Probates of...
Seite 157 - Those who have all along contended for a material world, have yet acknowledged that natura naturans (to use the language of the schoolmen) is God ; and that the divine conservation of things is equipollent to, and, in fact, the same thing with a continued repeated creation : in a word, that conservation and creation differ only in the terminus a quo.
Seite 161 - Ireland containing such numbers of poor, uneducated people, for whose sake charity schools are erecting throughout the kingdom, obligeth us to draw charities from England so far are we from being able to extend our bounty to New York a country in proportion much richer than our own. But as you are pleased to desire my advice upon this undertaking, I send the following hints to be enlarged and improved by your own judgment. I would not advise the applying to England for Charters or Statutes (which...
Seite 164 - I WOULD not let Mr. Hall depart without a line from me in acknowledgment of your letter which he put into my hands. As for Mr. Hutchinson's writings, I am not acquainted with them. I live in a remote corner, where many modern things escape me. Only this I can say, that I have observed that author to be mentioned as an enthusiast, which gave me no prepossession in his favour8•.