Religion and Education in America: With Notices of the State and Prospects of American Unitarianism, Popery, and African ColonizationT. Ward and Company, 1840 - 474 páginas |
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... comparatively homo- geneous community to the southward of New England . Of these , the first consisted of the Dutch colonists of Manhattan , or New York . That colony was planted by the Hollanders in the year 1613 , and was taken by the ...
... comparatively homo- geneous community to the southward of New England . Of these , the first consisted of the Dutch colonists of Manhattan , or New York . That colony was planted by the Hollanders in the year 1613 , and was taken by the ...
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... comparatively recent period . M. du Ponceau , of Philadelphia , President of the American Philosophical Society , himself a Hugue- not by descent , and one of the most eminent linguists now living , informed me that , in the year 1782 ...
... comparatively recent period . M. du Ponceau , of Philadelphia , President of the American Philosophical Society , himself a Hugue- not by descent , and one of the most eminent linguists now living , informed me that , in the year 1782 ...
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... comparatively small number of English Puritans , that settled in the northern colonies during the seventeenth century , that gave the tone and character to the present population of New England , it has unquestionably been the Scotch ...
... comparatively small number of English Puritans , that settled in the northern colonies during the seventeenth century , that gave the tone and character to the present population of New England , it has unquestionably been the Scotch ...
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... comparatively , had not been driven from their native land by the scourge of oppression ! South America was originally colonized for its silver E and its gold ; and the present inferior and degraded THE ATLANTIC STATES OF AMERICA . 37.
... comparatively , had not been driven from their native land by the scourge of oppression ! South America was originally colonized for its silver E and its gold ; and the present inferior and degraded THE ATLANTIC STATES OF AMERICA . 37.
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... comparatively pure morality even of the Unitarians of New England , which , like the sun- light in the arctic regions , still continues to illumine the land of darkness and of the shadow of death , after the glorious luminary from which ...
... comparatively pure morality even of the Unitarians of New England , which , like the sun- light in the arctic regions , still continues to illumine the land of darkness and of the shadow of death , after the glorious luminary from which ...
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Página 76 - For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
Página 64 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Página 47 - I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go, at present, no farther than the instruments of their reformation.
Página 73 - If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, And let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Página 268 - In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united...
Página 355 - Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain : that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Página 6 - God, the Supreme Lord and King of all the world, hath ordained civil magistrates to be under him, over the people, for his own glory and the public good, and to this end hath armed them with the power of the sword, for the defense and encouragement of them that are good, and for the punishment of evil-doers.
Página 63 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Página 257 - The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other...
Página 307 - The greatest part of British America was peopled by men who, after having shaken off the authority of the Pope, acknowledged no other religious supremacy: they brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity, which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion. This contributed powerfully to the establishment of a republic and a democracy in public affairs; and from the beginning, politics and religion contracted an alliance which has never been dissolved.