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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... Indians , in New England , and others more numerous on our northern and wes- tern borders , engaged his attention . He thought and felt , that as a christian community , we had shamefully , and criminally neglected proper en- deavors to ...
... Indians , in New England , and others more numerous on our northern and wes- tern borders , engaged his attention . He thought and felt , that as a christian community , we had shamefully , and criminally neglected proper en- deavors to ...
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... Indians , and was indus- trious in qualifying himself to teach and reform them . Mr. Wheelock had , previous to this ... Indians , on Long Island , 16 . MEMOIRS OF SECTION Sampson Occum-Mr Wheelock's motives in undertaking his Indian ...
... Indians , and was indus- trious in qualifying himself to teach and reform them . Mr. Wheelock had , previous to this ... Indians , on Long Island , 16 . MEMOIRS OF SECTION Sampson Occum-Mr Wheelock's motives in undertaking his Indian ...
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... Indians , on Long Island , and elsewhere . He brought them off from a fanatic wildness , into which they had fallen , by means of zealous exhorters from New England . It is believed he was instrumental in the salvation of many . Having ...
... Indians , on Long Island , and elsewhere . He brought them off from a fanatic wildness , into which they had fallen , by means of zealous exhorters from New England . It is believed he was instrumental in the salvation of many . Having ...
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... Indians , exhibited discouraging prospects of accomplishing any thing very effectual among them by any common means ... Indian parents to send their children to him , and in this manner remove them entirely from all connection with their ...
... Indians , exhibited discouraging prospects of accomplishing any thing very effectual among them by any common means ... Indian parents to send their children to him , and in this manner remove them entirely from all connection with their ...
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... Indians , placing confidence in God , in whose hands are the hearts of all men , that he would afford sufficient aid ... INDIAN SCHOOL - 22 MEMOIRS OF.
... Indians , placing confidence in God , in whose hands are the hearts of all men , that he would afford sufficient aid ... INDIAN SCHOOL - 22 MEMOIRS OF.
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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...