Jukes-Edwards: A Study in Education and HeredityR.L. Myers & Company, 1900 - 82 pages |
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... Princeton : The greatest thinker that America has produced . Lyman Beecher : A prince among preachers . In our day there is no man who comes within a thousand miles of him . Griswold's Prose Writers : The first man of the world 2 A ...
... Princeton : The greatest thinker that America has produced . Lyman Beecher : A prince among preachers . In our day there is no man who comes within a thousand miles of him . Griswold's Prose Writers : The first man of the world 2 A ...
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... Princeton , then a young and small college . The last four years of their life at Northampton were indescribably trying to the children . Human nature was the same then as now , and everyone knows how heavily the public dislike of a ...
... Princeton , then a young and small college . The last four years of their life at Northampton were indescribably trying to the children . Human nature was the same then as now , and everyone knows how heavily the public dislike of a ...
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... Princeton , then a very small institution . Upon the death of this son - in - law , Mr. Edwards was chosen to succeed him , but while at Princeton , before he had fairly entered upon his duties at the college , he died of smallpox . His ...
... Princeton , then a very small institution . Upon the death of this son - in - law , Mr. Edwards was chosen to succeed him , but while at Princeton , before he had fairly entered upon his duties at the college , he died of smallpox . His ...
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... aged eight , thirteen and twenty - and then con- sider the fact that the three sons graduated from Princeton , and five of the daughters married college graduates , three of them of Yale and one each 3 THE CHILDREN'S START IN LIFE 33.
... aged eight , thirteen and twenty - and then con- sider the fact that the three sons graduated from Princeton , and five of the daughters married college graduates , three of them of Yale and one each 3 THE CHILDREN'S START IN LIFE 33.
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... Princeton . A man might well be content to die without lands or gold when eight sons and sons - in - laws were to be men of such capacity , character , and training as are found in this family . They were not merely college graduates ...
... Princeton . A man might well be content to die without lands or gold when eight sons and sons - in - laws were to be men of such capacity , character , and training as are found in this family . They were not merely college graduates ...
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Aaron Burr American Andover Theological Seminary born Boston brilliant Burr's CHAPTER character chil child childhood church clergyman Connecticut crime criminals daughters descendant of Jonathan died Dugdale Edwards family eight eleven children eminent family of Jonathan famous father fessor fifty George George Hoadley gradu graduate of Amherst graduate of Harvard graduate of Yale graduated from Yale Hamilton Hamilton College Haven Hoadley honor husband important Indian inheritance intellectual John Jonathan Edwards Jukes large family law school lawyer leader legislature lived LL.D Major Dwight married Rev merchant missionary moral mother never Northampton oldest pastor pauperism physician Pierrpont preached President Timothy Dwight Princeton professor prominent Richard senate Sereno Edwards Dwight sons Stockbridge Indians Theodore Dwight Theodore Dwight Woolsey Theodore William Dwight thinker thirteen Timothy Dwight Timothy Edwards tion twelve twenty Tyler uncle United vigor wards women Woolsey wrote York City young
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Page 36 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own...
Page 38 - She is of a wonderful sweetness, calmness and universal benevolence of mind, especially after this Great God has manifested Himself to her mind. She will sometimes go about from place to place, singing sweetly; and seems to be always full of joy and pleasure, and no one knows for what.
Page 23 - Resolved, That I will do whatsoever I think to be most to the glory of God and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of' my duration; without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriads of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty, and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved, so to do, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many soever, and how great soever.
Page 23 - Resolved, Never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can.
Page 25 - By a sparingness in diet, and eating as much as may be, what is light and easy of digestion, I shall doubtless be able to think more clearly, and shall gain time; i.
Page 24 - Resolved, Never to speak evil of any one so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account, except for some real good.
Page 39 - In her directions and reproofs, in matters of importance, she would address herself to the reason of her children, that they might not only know her inclination and will, but at the same time be convinced of the reasonableness of it.
Page 40 - ... them. Her system of discipline was begun at a very early age, and it was her rule, to resist the first, as well as every subsequent exhibition of temper or disobedience in the child, however young...
Page 24 - I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony...
Page 8 - Jukes" is a name given to a large family of degenerates. It is not the real name of any family, but a general term applied to forty-two different names borne by those in whose veins flows the blood of one man. The word "jukes