Extracts from the Itineraries and Other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles, D. D., LL. D., 1755-1794: With a Selection from His Correspondence

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Yale University Press, 1916 - 620 páginas
 

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Página 595 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Página 3 - And it came to pass after these things, that Abraham sat in the door of his tent about the going down of the sun.
Página 315 - Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the world.
Página 3 - And when Abraham saw that the Man blessed not God, he said unto him, Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of Heaven and Earth?
Página 52 - ... no person who does not profess the Christian religion can be admitted free of this colony.
Página 330 - ... most wise and good providence brought together into this part of America in the Bay of Massachusetts, and desirous to unite ourselves into one congregation or church under the Lord Jesus Christ our head...
Página 53 - I remark that Providence seems to make every Thing to work for Mortification to the Jews, & to prevent their incorporating into any Nation ; that thus they may continue a distinct people.
Página 519 - ... avocations by publick business, but was forced to steal a little time in the morning and evening, while I was in town, and then leave it for weeks together; so that I found it difficult to keep any plan in my mind. I have an aversion to transcribing, and except the three or four first sheets and now and then a page in which I had made some mistake, the rest of the work is rough as I first wrote it.
Página 525 - Sept. 17, 1766:— Mr. Sandeman's Chh. here has lately had some small increase : I am informed that 16 Communicants now make up their Chh. They all discover a very malevolent Spirit, & high Enthusiasm very much like that of the hottest New Lights, however frigid Saudeuians notions may seem to his Readers.
Página 409 - Here lies Sam Uncas, the 2d and beloved son of his father, John Uncas, who was the grandson of Uncas, grand sachem of Mohegan, the darling of his mother, being daughter of said Uncas, grand sachem. He died July 31st, 1741, in the 28th year of his age.

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