Memoirs of the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D.D.: Founder and President of Dartmouth College and Moor's Charity SchoolEdward Little & Company, and sold at their book store, Market Square, C. Norris & Company, printers, 1811 - 336 pages |
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... sent , at the request of Mr. Wheelock , by the Rev. John Brainerd , missionary to the Indians in New - Jersey . Considering their ignorance of our language , they made as great proficiency in learning as the English boys in the same ...
... sent , at the request of Mr. Wheelock , by the Rev. John Brainerd , missionary to the Indians in New - Jersey . Considering their ignorance of our language , they made as great proficiency in learning as the English boys in the same ...
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... sent to the school at various times , se- veral boys of the Mohawks , to be instructed . One of these was , the since , celebrated Joseph Brant , who , after receiving his education , was particularly noticed by Sir William , and employ ...
... sent to the school at various times , se- veral boys of the Mohawks , to be instructed . One of these was , the since , celebrated Joseph Brant , who , after receiving his education , was particularly noticed by Sir William , and employ ...
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... sent in , from various christian congregations , and smaller societies in the neigh- boring colonies . · Were it possible , respect to the individual benefactors of the school , would demand an Its honorable mention of all their names ...
... sent in , from various christian congregations , and smaller societies in the neigh- boring colonies . · Were it possible , respect to the individual benefactors of the school , would demand an Its honorable mention of all their names ...
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... sent Mr. Wheelock a donation of one hundred pounds sterling . A like sum was also given by a lady in England , unknown . The generosity of Messrs . Samuel Savage , Charles Hardy , and the Rev. Doctor Andrew Gifford , of London , and of ...
... sent Mr. Wheelock a donation of one hundred pounds sterling . A like sum was also given by a lady in England , unknown . The generosity of Messrs . Samuel Savage , Charles Hardy , and the Rev. Doctor Andrew Gifford , of London , and of ...
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... sent him donations of money , books , and clothing , for his Indian boys . The number of students , missionaries , and school masters , who depended upon him for support , increased beyond the ex- tent of the ordinary supplies . Further ...
... sent him donations of money , books , and clothing , for his Indian boys . The number of students , missionaries , and school masters , who depended upon him for support , increased beyond the ex- tent of the ordinary supplies . Further ...
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Page 28 - And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say : — " Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths :" for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 181 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 155 - He shall pour the water out of his buckets, And his seed shall be in many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.
Page 187 - Know ye, therefore, that We, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said...
Page 80 - O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me ! If a man die, shall he live again ? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Page 180 - Act. in as full and ample a manner to all intents and purposes as if the same privileges and protections were repeated and re-enacted in this Act.
Page 105 - And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands ; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Page 101 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 176 - Offers which have been generously made in the several Governments in America to encourage and invite the settlement of said School among them for their own private emolument, and the increase of Learning in their respective places as well as for the furtherance of the general design in view.
Page 185 - Hampshire (and not excluding any person of any religious denomination whatsoever from free and equal liberty and advantage of education, or from any of the liberties and privileges or immunities of the said College on account of his or their speculative sentiments in religion, and of his or their being of a religious profession different from the said Trustees of the said Dartmouth College...