The Chaplains and Clergy of the RevolutionC. Scribner, 1864 - 402 páginas |
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... FEELINGS and PREDICTION ............ .. 74 CHAPTER VII . JACOB DUCHE - OPENS THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS WITH PRAYER . JOHN ADAMS'S DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENE . HIS PATRIOTIC SERMONS.- GIVES HIS PAY AS CHAPLAIN TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE ...
... FEELINGS and PREDICTION ............ .. 74 CHAPTER VII . JACOB DUCHE - OPENS THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS WITH PRAYER . JOHN ADAMS'S DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENE . HIS PATRIOTIC SERMONS.- GIVES HIS PAY AS CHAPLAIN TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE ...
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... FEELINGS.— THE LAST TO LEAVE THE SHORE IN THE RETREAT . - INVENTIONS IN SUB- MARINE NAVIGATION . - MANUFACTURES SALTPETER FOR POWDER . - ELECT- ED PROFESSOR IN YALE COLLEGE . HIS CHAracter and DEATH ......... CHAPTER XVI . WILLIAM WHITE ...
... FEELINGS.— THE LAST TO LEAVE THE SHORE IN THE RETREAT . - INVENTIONS IN SUB- MARINE NAVIGATION . - MANUFACTURES SALTPETER FOR POWDER . - ELECT- ED PROFESSOR IN YALE COLLEGE . HIS CHAracter and DEATH ......... CHAPTER XVI . WILLIAM WHITE ...
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... a structure without laying a founda- tion , for that great movement was begun and carried forward by religious feeling alone . The banner that moved at the head of crowding millions was the Cross of Christ , and he that bore it a priest.
... a structure without laying a founda- tion , for that great movement was begun and carried forward by religious feeling alone . The banner that moved at the head of crowding millions was the Cross of Christ , and he that bore it a priest.
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... feeling and unity of action , which they knew to be indispensable to suc- cess . Here , then , the historian can lay his hand on the deep , solid substratum that underlaid the Revo- lution . Thus as far back as 1770 we can see in the ...
... feeling and unity of action , which they knew to be indispensable to suc- cess . Here , then , the historian can lay his hand on the deep , solid substratum that underlaid the Revo- lution . Thus as far back as 1770 we can see in the ...
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... feeling , and showed clearly the increased state of excitement and the stronger spirit of resistance abroad in the Colonies . He took his text from Prov . xxix . 2 : " When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice , but when ...
... feeling , and showed clearly the increased state of excitement and the stronger spirit of resistance abroad in the Colonies . He took his text from Prov . xxix . 2 : " When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice , but when ...
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Página 183 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Página 302 - NOT unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
Página 302 - O SING unto the LORD a new song ; for he hath done marvellous things : His right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
Página 183 - Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Página 23 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Página 372 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth...
Página 85 - Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me : Fight against them that fight against me.
Página 373 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 46 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord, against the mighty.
Página 183 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.