Memoir of Daniel Appleton White

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Institute, 1864 - 47 páginas
 

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Página 8 - ... Animal Creation ; Priestley's Lectures on History and General Policy ; several of Lady Montagu's Letters ; Fitz Osborne's Letters ; Montesquieu's Persian Letters, and Pope's Essay on Man." Locke, Shakespeare, Robertson's Histories, the Spectator, together with other books of the highest order, are frequently named in his notes of his vacation readings. The only thing to be regretted in his College Course, was his excessive application. Both at Atkinson and at Cambridge, he neglected necessary...
Página 32 - The truth revealed through Christ has its evidence in itself, and the proof of its divine authority in its fitness to our nature and needs ; the clearness and cogency of this proof being proportionate to the degree of self-knowledge in each individual hearer.
Página 41 - At a later period, he prepared his "Notices of the First Church in Salem and its Ministers from 1629 to 1853," appended to a Sermon preached at the Installation of its present minister ; and his " Brief Memoir of the Plummer Family." Later still, when he was in his eighty second year, he wrote a letter in reference to the will of his friend and brother Joseph Hurd, and the final result of the trial of the case respecting it before Judge Thomas of Lowell, which was published in the Boston Daily Advertiser,...
Página 32 - Christianity has likewise its historical evidences, and these as strong as is compatible with the nature of history, and with the aims and objects of a religious dispensation. And to all these Christianity itself, as an existing power in the world, and Christendom as an existing fact, with the no less evident fact of a progressive expansion, give a force of moral demonstration that almost supersedes particular testimony.
Página 41 - ... adorn their memory. He freely met such calls as these, sometimes answering them at length, especially in respect to Professors Frisbie and Popkin, Dr. Channing, Judge Parsons, and Dr. Pearson of Andover. Many briefer Obituary notices came from his pen. One of these, published in the Salem Gazette of July 21, 1846, was upon Miss Mehitable Higginson, the sixth in descent from Rev. Francis Higginson, the first minister of the First Church, and the last person of that name in the City. In his diary,...
Página 25 - It being understood, that every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial, and unbiased investigation of Christian truth, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denomination of Christians be required of the students or professors or instructors.
Página 41 - He then speaks of her great service in the moral training of the children under her charge, and adds, " I feel her loss, and am grateful for her lessons and efforts for my own children. Her whole history, as well as ancestry, is interesting.
Página 24 - While he delighted in every advance in the scholarship of the College, it was his cardinal principle that moral training should hold the sovereign place in all educational plans ; and he never permitted an opportunity to be lost, when he could press its paramount claims. It is proper to say that the College did not forget the claim of so loyal and distinguished a son to her honors, and conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws, in 1837. The Divinity School at Cambridge was another object of...
Página 38 - ... gain a liberal education ; not only in order to aid them by pecuniary assistance, but by his sympathy and encouragement, which from one so honored was an additional inspiration. It was his frequent custom to note down upon the checks which he drew for any special purpose, the object to which that sum of money was to be devoted ; and thus his bank account, though it might furnish no record of some munificent gifts, and of numberless smaller ones which have no record upon earth, would present an...
Página 23 - No. 2. CONNECTION WITH PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. Though Judge White lived for many years in comparative retirement, neither the charm of books, nor of social intercourse, absorbed his thought. He retired from all strife for the prizes of the world, but he never remitted his labors for its welfare. No man was more alive to the highest interests of the Community, the Commonwealth, and the Country ; and he exerted an active public influence even to his last days, by his connection with Literary and Charitable...

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