The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL. D.: March 14, 1776-December 31, 1781Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901 |
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Stran 377 - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Stran 377 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Stran 171 - House is not much frequented by any but those of his party; & about thirty persons are his constant Hearers, including the Chh. His Hearers I said, but as he himself is now in Connecticut, his Desk is supplied with two preaching Elders; one of which whose name is Mitchelson came from Scotland; the other is from among themselves, viz. Colbourn Barrel, 2 who has lately become Bankrupt.
Stran 297 - ... sensible that the moderate state of the Funds at your disposal checks almost every Attempt of this Nature which is attended with an Expence. I therefore take liberty to propose (should it be agreeable to you and the reverend Corporation to patronize the design) solliciting Assistance from some of my Noble & opulent Friends in France, to establish a professor of the French Language in your Colleges, & to make a Collection of the -writings of their most celebrated Authors for your Library. I have...
Stran 209 - I have no more resolved in my mind whether I am qualified for such an office than for that of a prime minister or a Sultan; or whether I should on the whole be desirous of it; considering the Smallness of the Salary, and the great and complicated Difficulties & Labors which attend it.
Stran 381 - Cum eum in finem Gradus Academici instituti fuerint, ut Viri Disciplina, Sapientia, et Virtute insignes, qui vel de Re Literaria, vel de...
Stran 235 - Gates, and that a medal of gold be struck, under the direction of the Board of War, in commemoration of this great event, and in the name of these United States presented by the President to Major-General Gates.
Stran 191 - Adam's penalty that he should derive guilt and a corrupt nature to his offspring. And so he was not, in this sense, originally a federal head. "But upon God's purposing to continue Adam in existence for the purpose of grace, he then became the natural head of his posterity; and, as the sentence of death was not reversed, he became a federal head, to the purpose of bringing his posterity into a world under a natural state of animal mortality; instead of that exemption from this natural mortality promised...
Stran 209 - Sept. 19, 1777. My election to the Presidency of Yale College is an unexpected and wonderful ordering of Divine Providence. Not but that it has been talked of for years past ; but I knew such reasons in the breasts of the fellows and I...
Stran 165 - Persons going into the other colonies may be supplied with any number of counterfeited Congress notes for the price of the paper per ream. They are so nearly and exactly executed that there is no risk in getting them off, it being almost impossible to discover that they are not genuine. This has been proved by bills to a very large amount, which have been successfully circulated. Inquire for QED, at the coffee house, from eleven p. M., to four AM, during the present month.