Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D. D....: With Copious Extracts from His Writings, Volume 1S. A. George, 1879 |
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... learned lawyer , the eloquent advocate , the true , generous and faithful MAN . Had his acute and accomplished mind and his elegant pen found leisure in the midst of his ceaseless professional labor to devote themselves for a short time ...
... learned lawyer , the eloquent advocate , the true , generous and faithful MAN . Had his acute and accomplished mind and his elegant pen found leisure in the midst of his ceaseless professional labor to devote themselves for a short time ...
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... learned languages and laborious researches . The general principles of our common Christianity may , in a very short Compass be laid before youth , & the truths & duties . thence resulting press'd home upon them as truly amiable for ...
... learned languages and laborious researches . The general principles of our common Christianity may , in a very short Compass be laid before youth , & the truths & duties . thence resulting press'd home upon them as truly amiable for ...
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... learned instructors from other countries to their respective towns , merely with a view to the interest of the inhabitants . Numbers of people have already generously subscribed considerable sums to carry on this undertaking ; but ...
... learned instructors from other countries to their respective towns , merely with a view to the interest of the inhabitants . Numbers of people have already generously subscribed considerable sums to carry on this undertaking ; but ...
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... learned men . But , in the circumstances of this province , such a neglect would have been still more inexcusable than in any other part of the British dominions . For being made up of so great a mixture of people , from almost all ...
... learned men . But , in the circumstances of this province , such a neglect would have been still more inexcusable than in any other part of the British dominions . For being made up of so great a mixture of people , from almost all ...
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... learned languages and the sciences are taught , as in other colleges and universities , though on a plan somewhat different . It consists of the Latin and Greek schools and three philosophy schools . An account of the whole follows ...
... learned languages and the sciences are taught , as in other colleges and universities , though on a plan somewhat different . It consists of the Latin and Greek schools and three philosophy schools . An account of the whole follows ...
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Page 255 - Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
Page 514 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Page 280 - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him not leave us nor forsake us; that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
Page 279 - Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool : where is the house that ye build unto Me? and where is the place of My rest? For all those things hath Mine hand made...
Page 279 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 376 - Our troops were, besides, extremely fatigued with the long march and as long action of the preceding day, and distressed to the last degree, by a total want of water, much more intolerable than the enemy's fire. Tied to our convoy, we could not lose sight of it...
Page 514 - The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Page 531 - With ver. 22. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
Page 492 - That the act of parliament, for shutting up the port of Boston, is unconstitutional ; oppressive to the inhabitants of that town ; dangerous to the liberties of the British colonies; and that therefore, we consider our brethren, at Boston, as suffering in the common cause of America.
Page 332 - WHEREAS, the trustees of the University of the State of Pennsylvania, and the trustees of the College, Academy, and Charitable School of Philadelphia, in the...