The Life of Thomas Eddy ...Fry, 1836 - 264 sider |
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... ment . His object and unshaken purpose seemed to be , to diffuse , by every possible and reasonable effort on his part , a liberal , enlightened , humane , active , and Christian public spirit . He pos- sessed , far beyond the race of ...
... ment . His object and unshaken purpose seemed to be , to diffuse , by every possible and reasonable effort on his part , a liberal , enlightened , humane , active , and Christian public spirit . He pos- sessed , far beyond the race of ...
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... to that office about the year 1812. I believe he had been in that station from a very early date . There , as elsewhere , he was one of the most efficient ment . and useful members of the institution to which INTRODUCTION . 15.
... to that office about the year 1812. I believe he had been in that station from a very early date . There , as elsewhere , he was one of the most efficient ment . and useful members of the institution to which INTRODUCTION . 15.
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Samuel Lorenzo Knapp. ment . and useful members of the institution to which he belonged . In the year 1816 I think , the legislature made a very liberal grant of an increased revenue to the hospital . This was obtained entirely by the ...
Samuel Lorenzo Knapp. ment . and useful members of the institution to which he belonged . In the year 1816 I think , the legislature made a very liberal grant of an increased revenue to the hospital . This was obtained entirely by the ...
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... ment . The writings and reports of Howard , of Ferriar , of Haygarth , and of Lind , on prisons , fever hospitals , and houses of recovery , were the principal sources , whence , at that time , information was derived touching these ...
... ment . The writings and reports of Howard , of Ferriar , of Haygarth , and of Lind , on prisons , fever hospitals , and houses of recovery , were the principal sources , whence , at that time , information was derived touching these ...
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... ment ; that in several of these institutions , to the miseries insepa- rable from a loss of reason , were added the horrors and atrocities of brutalized ignorance , refined , if I may so say , by the absurd- est therapeutical doctrines ...
... ment ; that in several of these institutions , to the miseries insepa- rable from a loss of reason , were added the horrors and atrocities of brutalized ignorance , refined , if I may so say , by the absurd- est therapeutical doctrines ...
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The Life of Thomas Eddy: Comprising an Extensive Correspondence with Many of ... Samuel Lorenzo Knapp Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1834 |
The Life of Thomas Eddy: Comprising an Extensive Correspondence with Many of ... Samuel Lorenzo Knapp Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1834 |
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Side 62 - I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
Side 249 - GENESEE CONFERENCE shall include all that part of the State of New York lying west of the Central New York Conference excepting that part of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Counties now included in the Erie Conference.
Side 109 - I do not want it ; they go on till they come to another house, where they find more of the same kind of drink ; it is there offered again ; they refuse ; and again the third time; but finally, the fourth or fifth time, one accepts of it, and takes a drink ; and getting one, he wants another ; and then a third, and fourth, till his senses have left him. After his reason comes back again to him ; when he gets up, and finds where he is, he asks for his peltry. The answer is, 'You have drank them.' Where...
Side 109 - Brothers: — When our young men have been out hunting, and are returning home, loaded with skins and furs, on their way if it happens that they come along where some of this whiskey is deposited, the white man who sells it, tells them to take a little drink; some of them will say 'no, I do not want it...
Side 25 - Their seed shall remain for ever, and their glory shall not be blotted out. Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.
Side 134 - Plans for the improvement and management of the common school fund, and for the better organization of the common schools ; and, 4. All such matters relating to his office, and to the common schools, as he shall deem expedient to communicate.
Side 128 - York for the education of such poor children as do not belong to, or are not provided for by, any religious society...
Side 241 - I am capable of bearing great • privation and almost any exertion of mere bodily fatigue. The reason is that I reside principally in London, and it is only of late that I have been able to inure myself to the close air and the want of exercise that belong to the life of cities.
Side 115 - I was, Sir, born of Indian parents, and lived while a child among those whom you are pleased to call savages; I was afterward sent to live among the white people, and educated at one of your schools ; since which period I have been honored much beyond my deserts, by an acquaintance with a number of principal characters both in Europe and America. After all this experience, and after every exertion to divest myself...
Side 115 - ... among us we have no prisons, we have no pompous parade of courts, we have no written laws, and yet judges are as highly revered among us as they are among you, and their decisions are as much regarded.