The Life of Samuel Johnson, D.D., the First President of King's College, in New York: Containing Many Interesting Anecdotes; a General View of the State of Religion and Learning in Connecticut During the Former Part of the Last Century; and an Account of the Institution and Rise of Yale College, Connecticut; and of King's (now Columbia) College, New YorkT. & J. Swords, 1824 - 209 ページ |
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173 ページ - God shall be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets ; and then the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ and he shall reign for ever (Apoc.
158 ページ - ... the existence of which I am so far from questioning (as philosophers are used to do), that I establish it, I think, upon evident principles. Now, it seems very easy to conceive the soul to exist in a separate state (/'. e.
51 ページ - He has seduced several of the hopefullest young clergymen, and others here, many of them well provided for, and all of them in the fairest way of preferment ; but, in England, his conquests are greater, and, I doubt, will spread very far this winter.
51 ページ - Indian scholars and missionaries, where he most exorbitantly proposeth a whole hundred pounds a year for himself, forty pounds for a fellow, and ten for a student.
169 ページ - I think myself, at present, in a very bad situation: Bishop of a vast country, without power, or influence, or any means of promoting true religion; sequestered from the people over whom I have the care, and must never hope to see. I should be tempted to throw off all this care quite, were it not for the sake of preserving even the appearance of an Episcopal Church in the Plantations.
157 ページ - I had no inclination to trouble the world with large volumes. What I have done was rather with a view of giving hints to thinking men, who have leisure and curiosity to go to the bottom of things, and .pursue them in their own minds.
167 ページ - But authority to be given, only to ordain clergy for such church of England congregations as are among them, and to inspect into the manners and behaviour of the said clergy, and to confirm the members thereof.
50 ページ - He is an absolute philosopher with regard to money, titles, and power; and, for three years past, has been struck with a notion of founding a university at Bermudas, by a charter from the crown.
159 ページ - New York where you say a College is projected which has my best wishes. At the same time I am sorry that the condition of Ireland containing such numbers of poor, uneducated people, for whose sake charity schools are erecting throughout the kingdom, obligeth us to draw charities from England so far are we from being able to extend our bounty to New York a country in proportion much richer than our own. But as you are pleased to desire my advice upon this undertaking, I send the following hints to...
154 ページ - The true use and end of natural philosophy is to explain the phenomena of nature, which is done by discovering the laws of nature, and reducing particular appearances to them. This is Sir Isaac Newton's method, and such method or design is not in the least inconsistent with the principles I lay down.