Jukes-Edwards: A Study in Education and HeredityR.L. Myers & Company, 1900 - 82 pages |
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... five generations . He learned the exact facts about 169 who married into the family . It is customary to count as of a family the men who marry into it . He traced in part others , which carried the number up to 1,200 persons of the ...
... five generations . He learned the exact facts about 169 who married into the family . It is customary to count as of a family the men who marry into it . He traced in part others , which carried the number up to 1,200 persons of the ...
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... five years as pastor . Who can estimate the inheritance which comes to a child of such a pastor who had been born in a merchant's home . In the four generations which stood behind Jonathan Edwards were two merchants and two preachers ...
... five years as pastor . Who can estimate the inheritance which comes to a child of such a pastor who had been born in a merchant's home . In the four generations which stood behind Jonathan Edwards were two merchants and two preachers ...
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... five years . He was a great student and thinker . He rose at four o'clock and spent thir- teen hours a day in his study . It is worth while to follow the personal intellectual habits of the man whose descendants we are to study . When ...
... five years . He was a great student and thinker . He rose at four o'clock and spent thir- teen hours a day in his study . It is worth while to follow the personal intellectual habits of the man whose descendants we are to study . When ...
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... five years of service , by an almost unanimous vote was not one of ecclesiasticism or theology , but of morals among the young people . He insisted upon vigorous action in relation to the loose INHERITance anD TRAINING 27.
... five years of service , by an almost unanimous vote was not one of ecclesiasticism or theology , but of morals among the young people . He insisted upon vigorous action in relation to the loose INHERITance anD TRAINING 27.
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... five years , and a more fruitful pastorate or a more glorious ministerial career for a quarter of a century no man could ask . He made that church on the frontier the largest Protestant church in the world , and it was the most ...
... five years , and a more fruitful pastorate or a more glorious ministerial career for a quarter of a century no man could ask . He made that church on the frontier the largest Protestant church in the world , and it was the most ...
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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