Memoir of Hon. Daniel Appleton White: Prepared Agreeably to a Resolution of the Massachusetts Historical Society

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J. Wilson and Son, 1863 - 71 páginas
 

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Página 41 - Writing*," and there given anonymously, was by him. infected with Tom Paine's infidelity, broached his notions in conversation with me, I battled it with them stoutly, not exactly with the logic you would get from Locke, but with the logic I found here (pointing to his breast) ; and here it has always...
Página 5 - Other causes were, however, at work to make religion a source of one of the greatest of his youthful troubles. His father and mother were strict Baptists, and also " New Lights," as the followers of Whitefield were then called. Blood and Water which came from Christ when the Soldier pierced his Side, his Laying in his Grave, and his Resurrection, was no part of Redemption, and that his Laying in the Grave was no part of his Humiliation.
Página 36 - 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 28 - The committee entertain a high sense of the wisdom and ability with which this convention have discharged their arduous trust; and while they maintain the principle of state sovereignty, and of the duties which citizens owe to their respective state governments, they give the most satisfactory proofs of attachment to the constitution of the United States and to the national union.
Página 70 - An Address to the Members of the Merrimack Humane Society, at their Anniversary Meeting in Newburyport, Sept.
Página 44 - Even in respect to morals and religion, he holds that " excess of regulation and discipline is probably as pernicious as the opposite extreme of indulgence. Both are bad enough. Our aim should be, to pursue a middle course ; allowing Nature free scope in unfolding and maturing all her generous feelings and principles, without indulging the growth of any bad ones ; correcting what is wrong, and stimulating by kindness what is right ; checking vicious, but cherishing virtuous propensities ; preventing...
Página 8 - Cambridge, may justly be attributed. The patrons and governors of the college made efforts to counteract the effect of these fatal principles by exhortation, and preaching, and prayer, as well as by the publication and distribution of good books and pamphlets. " ' Watson's Apology for the Bible...
Página 8 - ... government, and continued to rage for some years with its utmost fury, spreading its disastrous influence throughout the civilized world, and pouring upon our country a flood of infidel and licentious principles. Our colleges could not escape the contagion of these principles ; and I have no doubt that to these, and the pernicious books embodying them, much of the disorderly conduct, and most of the infidel and irreligious spirit, which prevailed at that period among the students at Cambridge,...
Página 4 - A discourse in order to confute the heresy, delivered and much contended for, in the West Parish, in Haverhill, and countenanced by many of the ministers of the neighboring parishes, viz.: ' That the blood and water which came from Christ when the soldier pierced his side, his laying in his grave and his resurrection, was no part of the work of redemption, and that his laying in the grave was no part of his humiliation.
Página 28 - States, in order to produce a powerful, and if possible an irresistable claim for such alterations, as will tend to preserve the Union, and restore violated privileges, yet they have considered that there are reasons which render it inexpedient at the present moment to exercise this power.

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