A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century: Part the First in Three Volumes ; Containing a Sketch of the Revolutions and Improvements in Science, Arts, and Literature During that Period, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1805 - Art, Modern |
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... episcopal church . On ac- count of the unsettled state of religion which then existed in that kingdom , he quitted his preferments , and went into England , near the end of the reign of Charles II . The bishop of London , considering ...
... episcopal church . On ac- count of the unsettled state of religion which then existed in that kingdom , he quitted his preferments , and went into England , near the end of the reign of Charles II . The bishop of London , considering ...
Page 197
... episcopal church ; but afterward left that communion , and became a celebrated preacher among the friends . In 1692 , having manifested a troublesome and disorderly disposition , he was disowned by them , and in a short in this academy ...
... episcopal church ; but afterward left that communion , and became a celebrated preacher among the friends . In 1692 , having manifested a troublesome and disorderly disposition , he was disowned by them , and in a short in this academy ...
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... episcopal church . He was a man of learn- ing and talents ; but arrogant , vain , and given to litigation . * Edward Shippen was early and much distinguished in Penn- sylvania . He came from England to Massachusetts to avoid persecution ...
... episcopal church . He was a man of learn- ing and talents ; but arrogant , vain , and given to litigation . * Edward Shippen was early and much distinguished in Penn- sylvania . He came from England to Massachusetts to avoid persecution ...
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... episcopal college , to aid in the missionary cause * . He landed at Newport , in Rhode Island , have in gathering up handfuls of silver or gold from a newly discovered mine . " The fruits of this early initiation into me- taphysical ...
... episcopal college , to aid in the missionary cause * . He landed at Newport , in Rhode Island , have in gathering up handfuls of silver or gold from a newly discovered mine . " The fruits of this early initiation into me- taphysical ...
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... episcopal missionary within the colony who should then be present ; and in case none should be present , then by the president only and in case the president and senior missionary should not agree in deciding on the best scholars , that ...
... episcopal missionary within the colony who should then be present ; and in case none should be present , then by the president only and in case the president and senior missionary should not agree in deciding on the best scholars , that ...
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Page 188 - It is further ordered, That where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 38 - He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints, architecture, and gardening.
Page 30 - The poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm, that our thoughts expand with his imagery, and kindle with his sentiments.
Page 29 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Page 209 - Island : the rents of which he directed to be appropriated to the maintenance of the three best classical scholars, who should reside at college at least nine months in a year in each of the three years between their first and second degrees.
Page 260 - Alexander, but spent a considerable part of his life in New Jersey. He was considered by many as the rightful heir to the title and estate of an earldom in Scotland, of which country his father was a native; and although, when he went to North Britain in pursuit of this inheritance, he failed of obtaining...
Page 15 - Man' was originally composed by Lord Bolingbroke in prose, and that Mr. Pope did no more than put it into verse : that he had read Lord Bolingbroke's manuscript in his own handwriting ; and remembered well, that he was at a loss whether most to admire the elegance of Lord Bolingbroke's prose, or the beauty of Mr. Pope's verse.
Page 95 - Europe; but it applies with particular force to our own country, where every judicious observer must perceive, that too many of our gazettes are in the hands of persons destitute at once of the urbanity of gentlemen, the information of scholars, and the principles of virtue.
Page 101 - To promote and encourage the knowledge of the antiquities of America and of the natural history of the country, and to determine the uses to which the various natural productions of the country may be applied...
Page 39 - The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.