Annual Report of the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West |
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... interests of the West . No. I. The present public sentiment of the East relative to Western Colleges , is it wise ? By ... interest for almost every Western scheme , that of Colleges among others , was a passionate and popular enthusiasm ...
... interests of the West . No. I. The present public sentiment of the East relative to Western Colleges , is it wise ? By ... interest for almost every Western scheme , that of Colleges among others , was a passionate and popular enthusiasm ...
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... interest . The folds of the Papacy were around infant Hercules . No time was to be lost - ages were in the hour ... interests , or cupidity speculating on benevolence , or the upper- most whimsey of the hour could devise a plausible plea ...
... interest . The folds of the Papacy were around infant Hercules . No time was to be lost - ages were in the hour ... interests , or cupidity speculating on benevolence , or the upper- most whimsey of the hour could devise a plausible plea ...
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... interests . Its many demonstrable schemes of self - supporting or lucrative institu- tions have exploded , as was meet ... interest was evidence of vast an stirring motives in the thing itself , though they may not always have le to wise ...
... interests . Its many demonstrable schemes of self - supporting or lucrative institu- tions have exploded , as was meet ... interest was evidence of vast an stirring motives in the thing itself , though they may not always have le to wise ...
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... interest less able to sustain itself . There is hardly a Protestant college in the new states but what is suspended ... interests that formerly aroused the public mind to the enterprise of founding colleges at the West - its prospects in ...
... interest less able to sustain itself . There is hardly a Protestant college in the new states but what is suspended ... interests that formerly aroused the public mind to the enterprise of founding colleges at the West - its prospects in ...
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... interest . The college is naturally the heart of the whole . The lower departments necessarily draw life from that . If Rome then grasps the college in the system of Western education , she virtually grasps the common school ; she ...
... interest . The college is naturally the heart of the whole . The lower departments necessarily draw life from that . If Rome then grasps the college in the system of Western education , she virtually grasps the common school ; she ...
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Page 1 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 55 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 37 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Page 36 - Work; it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly Gentleman and a lover of Learning, there living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his Estate (it being in all about ^1700) towards the erecting of a Colledge, and all his Library...
Page 23 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Page 21 - Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 30 - Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together ; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 23 - Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours : and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine ; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Page 58 - Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you ; and I will not be burdensome to you : for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Page 3 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.