American Christian Rulers: Or, Religion and Men of Government; Comprising Sketches in American History of Men of Christian Faith and Experience, who Have Had Connections with the National and State Governments and the Judicial Department; Embracing Colonial, Revolutionary and Later PeriodsBromfield, 1890 - 590 pages |
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... died in the Speaker's room at Washington , while serving the term as Representative , February 23 , 1848. His last words were : " This is the last of earth . I am content . " In his boyhood , he saw Charlestown in flames at the Battle ...
... died in the Speaker's room at Washington , while serving the term as Representative , February 23 , 1848. His last words were : " This is the last of earth . I am content . " In his boyhood , he saw Charlestown in flames at the Battle ...
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... died at Washington, April 8, 1882. He graduated at Union College under Dr. Nott in 1832, began legal studies at Albany, and continued them with a lawyer in New York, after a time receiving a clerkship yielding $300 salary, and was ...
... died at Washington, April 8, 1882. He graduated at Union College under Dr. Nott in 1832, began legal studies at Albany, and continued them with a lawyer in New York, after a time receiving a clerkship yielding $300 salary, and was ...
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... died in July , 1795. " He was a man of respectable abilities , approved scholarship , and exemplary Christian character . " His mother was Mary , daughter of Jacob Hook , a farmer of Kingston , N. H. At the death of her husband , she ...
... died in July , 1795. " He was a man of respectable abilities , approved scholarship , and exemplary Christian character . " His mother was Mary , daughter of Jacob Hook , a farmer of Kingston , N. H. At the death of her husband , she ...
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... died at New Haven , May 26 , 1851. He was the third in the line of descent from John Baldwin , one of the Puritan emigrants . He graduated at Yale College in 1781 , was a tutor in the institution from 1783 to 1786 ; read law with ...
... died at New Haven , May 26 , 1851. He was the third in the line of descent from John Baldwin , one of the Puritan emigrants . He graduated at Yale College in 1781 , was a tutor in the institution from 1783 to 1786 ; read law with ...
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... died in New- buryport , July 1 , 1853 . He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1797 ; became a resi- dent of Newburyport , practiced law in the courts of Essex County ; served as Representative in the Massachusetts Legisla- ture 1810-1813 ...
... died in New- buryport , July 1 , 1853 . He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1797 ; became a resi- dent of Newburyport , practiced law in the courts of Essex County ; served as Representative in the Massachusetts Legisla- ture 1810-1813 ...
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Page 240 - God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Page 11 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
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Page 317 - Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present...
Page 192 - Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Page 107 - In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the Department of the Interior of the United States to be hereunto affixed.
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Page 258 - ... to be as one public state or commonwealth; and do, for ourselves and our successors, and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter, enter into combination and confederation together, to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess, as also the discipline of the churches, which according to the truth of the said gospel is now practised amongst us ; as also in our civil affairs to be guided and governed according to such laws, rules,...