The History of Harvard University, Volume 2John Owen, 1840 - 612 pages |
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... Thousand Dollars to the Theologi- cal School . 597 LVII . Extract from the Will of Henry Lienow . 598 LVIII . Gore Hall . 599 · LIX . Vote of the Corporation on the Death of Dr. Bowditch , March 20th , 1838 . 602 LX . Finances of the ...
... Thousand Dollars to the Theologi- cal School . 597 LVII . Extract from the Will of Henry Lienow . 598 LVIII . Gore Hall . 599 · LIX . Vote of the Corporation on the Death of Dr. Bowditch , March 20th , 1838 . 602 LX . Finances of the ...
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... thousand pounds , Massachusetts currency , for pious and charitable uses . The widow and daughters of Mr. Holden emulated his example , and exceeded even his munificence in the amount of their dona- tions . By the members of this family ...
... thousand pounds , Massachusetts currency , for pious and charitable uses . The widow and daughters of Mr. Holden emulated his example , and exceeded even his munificence in the amount of their dona- tions . By the members of this family ...
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... thousand pounds per diem . He has been here a little above a fortnight . All sorts have attended his preaching and have contributed . He seems to me to be a pious , zealous man , of good natural parts , and style good enough ; but over ...
... thousand pounds per diem . He has been here a little above a fortnight . All sorts have attended his preaching and have contributed . He seems to me to be a pious , zealous man , of good natural parts , and style good enough ; but over ...
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... thousand or fifteen hundred souls , on the frontier of Massachusetts , he practised the seclusion and self- denial of an anchorite . Disengaging himself from temporal affairs , seldom visiting his people except to preach , to exhort ...
... thousand or fifteen hundred souls , on the frontier of Massachusetts , he practised the seclusion and self- denial of an anchorite . Disengaging himself from temporal affairs , seldom visiting his people except to preach , to exhort ...
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... thousand times worse than nothing . ” — “ Will it not betray a foolish , exalting opinion of ourselves and a mean one of God , to have a thought of offering any thing of ours , to recommend us to the favor of being brought from ...
... thousand times worse than nothing . ” — “ Will it not betray a foolish , exalting opinion of ourselves and a mean one of God , to have a thought of offering any thing of ours , to recommend us to the favor of being brought from ...
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amount annual annuities APPENDIX appointed August 31 benefactors Benjamin board of Overseers books and philosophical Boston Bowdoin Boylston Cambridge CHAPTER Charles church committee Corporation Court death Divinity donation duties Ebenezer Francis Edward elected Eliot England erected established Francis funds Governor grant Harvard College Harvard Hall Hebrew Henry Flynt Hollis Holyoke honor hundred pounds Immediate Government income institution instruction instructors interest James James Bowdoin John Hancock John Lowell Joseph Joseph Story learning lectures legacy lege legislature letter Library Massachusetts Medical ment Nathaniel Bowditch nature Nicholas Boylston passed philosophical apparatus poration pounds sterling present President and Fellows principles Profes Professor Professorship Province received request resignation respect salary Samuel Samuel Dexter seminary Society spirit sterling Storer Theological School Thomas Thomas Hancock Thomas Hollis thousand dollars tion Treasurer Tutors University vote William Winthrop XXXV XXXVII
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Page 509 - Wisdom, and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Page 507 - State ; and whereas the encouragement of arts and sciences and all good literature tends to the honor of God, the advantage of the Christian religion, and the great benefit of this and the other United States of America...
Page 509 - ... shall at the same time have a seat in the senate or house of representatives; but their being chosen or appointed to and accepting the same shall operate as a resignation of their seat in the senate or house of representatives and the place so vacated shall be filled up.
Page 656 - And are built upon the foundation of the prophets and apostles, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone ; in whom all the building fitly framed together, groweth into an holy temple in the Lord.
Page 175 - Council, and Senate of this Commonwealth are and shall be deemed their successors ; who with the President of Harvard College for the time being, together with the ministers of the Congregational churches in the towns of Cambridge, Watertown, Charlestown, Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester...
Page 676 - He passed the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Page 634 - Rev. GEORGE R. NOYES, DD, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, and Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature.
Page 176 - College; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the legislature of this commonwealth from making such alterations in the government of the said university, as shall be conducive to its advantage, and the interest of the republic of letters, in as full a manner as might have been done by the legislature of the late Province of the Massachusetts Bay.
Page 48 - ; denouncing him as " an enthusiast, a censorious, uncharitable person, and a deluder of the people," and stating at large the reasons of their denunciation. The reproachful reflections Whitefield had cast upon the College they pronounced