Addresses and Proceedings at the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the American Whig Society: Of the College of New Jersey, Princeton, N. J., June 29th, 1869 |
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... continued the practice of his profession until his death in 1817 . William Schenck was born at Allentown , Mon- mouth county , New Jersey , and was graduated at Nassau Hall in 1767. He was licensed to preach in 1771 by the Presbytery of ...
... continued the practice of his profession until his death in 1817 . William Schenck was born at Allentown , Mon- mouth county , New Jersey , and was graduated at Nassau Hall in 1767. He was licensed to preach in 1771 by the Presbytery of ...
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... the American Whig Society , was the first graduate President of this College , and began that Dr. Smith , one of the • glorious Whig dynasty which continued uninterrupt- ed for sixty HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHIG SOCIETY . 33.
... the American Whig Society , was the first graduate President of this College , and began that Dr. Smith , one of the • glorious Whig dynasty which continued uninterrupt- ed for sixty HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHIG SOCIETY . 33.
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... continued uninterrupt- ed for sixty years , from 1794 to 1854. He was probably the most accomplished scholar , the most cultivated in his manners , and with the exception of President Davies , the most eloquent preacher who has adorned ...
... continued uninterrupt- ed for sixty years , from 1794 to 1854. He was probably the most accomplished scholar , the most cultivated in his manners , and with the exception of President Davies , the most eloquent preacher who has adorned ...
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... continued for years despite the interruptions caused by public duties . He was elected a member of the House of Dele- gates of Virginia in 1784. Of this body composed of able and distinguished men , Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee ...
... continued for years despite the interruptions caused by public duties . He was elected a member of the House of Dele- gates of Virginia in 1784. Of this body composed of able and distinguished men , Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee ...
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... continued a member of Congress during the whole of Washington's Administration . His conscientious convictions compelled him to differ from Mr. Hamilton , the Secretary of the Treasury , in reference to financial questions . Hence he ...
... continued a member of Congress during the whole of Washington's Administration . His conscientious convictions compelled him to differ from Mr. Hamilton , the Secretary of the Treasury , in reference to financial questions . Hence he ...
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Page 166 - Others more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle ; and complain that fate ' Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance.
Page 55 - ... here the guardian shade, And sent soft waters murmuring by; Thus quietly thy summer goes, Thy days declining to repose. Smit with those charms, that must decay, I grieve to see your future doom; They died — nor were those flowers more gay, The flowers that did in Eden bloom; Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power Shall leave no vestige of this flower. From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came: If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space...
Page 170 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on...
Page 167 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute: And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 62 - From thence he went to Congress, then consisting of few members. Trained in these successive schools, he acquired a habit of self-possession, which placed at ready command the rich resources of his luminous and discriminating mind, and of his extensive information, and rendered him the first of...
Page 54 - FAIR flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honied blossoms blow, Unseen thy little branches greet: No roving foot shall crush thee here, No busy hand provoke a tear. By Nature's self in white arrayed, She bade thee shun the vulgar eye, And planted here the guardian shade, And sent soft waters murmuring by; Thus quietly thy summer goes, Thy days declining to repose.
Page 51 - At Eutaw Springs the valiant died; Their limbs with dust are covered o'er— Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide; How many heroes are no more! If in this wreck of ruin, they Can yet be thought to claim a tear, O smite your gentle breast, and say The friends of freedom slumber here!
Page 69 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Page 171 - ... national plan for training young children to virtuous habits, and thereby rooting out crimes from the land. And this interdict, under which both parties join in laying their country, is by each pronounced to be necessary for the sacred interests of religion. Of religion ! Oh, gracious God ! Was ever the name of thy holy ordinances so impiously profaned before? Was ever before, thy best gift to man — his reason — so bewildered by blind bigotry, or savage intolerance, or wild fanaticism ; bewildered...
Page 51 - That proves the evening shall be clear. They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; '* Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear — but left the shield.