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... passed many years in Sion College , where he died in 1621. He was the inventor of the improved method of algebraic calculation adopted by Descartes six years after , who passed off the discovery as his own . Harriot's claim was esta ...
... passed many years in Sion College , where he died in 1621. He was the inventor of the improved method of algebraic calculation adopted by Descartes six years after , who passed off the discovery as his own . Harriot's claim was esta ...
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... passed into the hands of his step - daughter , a widow , who , marrying a Northampton deacon - a pie - man - these devout writings were taken to line his pastry - a fate which the poet Herrick not long before had deprecated in hurrying ...
... passed into the hands of his step - daughter , a widow , who , marrying a Northampton deacon - a pie - man - these devout writings were taken to line his pastry - a fate which the poet Herrick not long before had deprecated in hurrying ...
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... passed to Josiah Quincy , who held it till 1845 ; when he was succeeded by Edward Everett , 1846-49 ; and Jared Sparks from that year till 1853 , when the present in- cumbent , James Walker , was called from his chair of Moral ...
... passed to Josiah Quincy , who held it till 1845 ; when he was succeeded by Edward Everett , 1846-49 ; and Jared Sparks from that year till 1853 , when the present in- cumbent , James Walker , was called from his chair of Moral ...
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... passed an ordinance against the use by the students in their rooms of " plum cake , " which probably became contraband from its ac- cessories . The Saturnalia of Commencement time were celebrated . In the " Collection of Poems by ...
... passed an ordinance against the use by the students in their rooms of " plum cake , " which probably became contraband from its ac- cessories . The Saturnalia of Commencement time were celebrated . In the " Collection of Poems by ...
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... passed . A glance at its cata- logue will show its early proficiency in the studies connected with sacred literature and natural phi- losophy . Though always producing good scholars , its polished Belles Lettres training has been com ...
... passed . A glance at its cata- logue will show its early proficiency in the studies connected with sacred literature and natural phi- losophy . Though always producing good scholars , its polished Belles Lettres training has been com ...
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck George Long Duyckinck,Evert Augustus Duyckinck Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Cyclopaedia of American Literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck George Long Duyckinck,Evert Augustus Duyckinck Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Cyclopaedia of American Literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck George Long Duyckinck,Evert Augustus Duyckinck Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adams afterwards American Anne Bradstreet appeared Bay Psalm Book born Boston Byles called Christ Christian Church collection colony Connecticut Cotton Cotton Mather death died discourse divine doth edition England English eyes fear Franklin give GOUT Governor grace hand Harvard Harvard College hath heart heaven History honor Increase Mather Indians John John Adams King King Philip's war land Latin learning letter liberty literary live London Lord Massachusetts Mather mind minister nature never peace Philadelphia philosopher poem poet Portrait and Autograph preached President printed Psalms published religious reprinted Rhode Island salt-box Samuel says sent sermons Society soon soul spirit sweet thee things Thomas Thomas Hooker Thomas Shepard thou thought tion town tract truth unto verses Virginia visited volume William writings written wrote Yale College
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 202 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Seite 189 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Seite 188 - O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
Seite 112 - I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Seite 338 - Here still a lofty rock remains, On which the curious eye may trace (Now wasted half by wearing rains) The fancies of a ruder race.
Seite 112 - Yet I ought to have charity for these unhappy people, when I consider, that with all this wisdom of which I am boasting, there are certain things in the world so tempting, for example, the apples of king John, which happily are not to be bought ; for if they were put to sale by auction, I might very easily be led to ruin myself in the purchase, . and find that I had once more given too much for the whistle.
Seite 245 - This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and with journalizing his agricultural proceedings occupied most of his leisure hours within doors.
Seite 246 - Never spend your money before you have it. • 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap : it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little.
Seite 112 - If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Seite 203 - I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent.