New England Magazine (and Bay State Monthly), Volume 4New England Magazine Company, 1886 |
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... Professor of Languages and other branches of learning , with full power to act in these capacities at Warren or elsewhere . " On that same day , as appears from an original paper , now on file in the archives of the library , the ...
... Professor of Languages and other branches of learning , with full power to act in these capacities at Warren or elsewhere . " On that same day , as appears from an original paper , now on file in the archives of the library , the ...
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... in favor of Provi- dence , by a vote of twenty - one to fourteen . Soon after this decision , the President and Professor Howell , with their pupils , removed to Providence , occupying for 1886. ] 7 BROWN UNIVERSITY .
... in favor of Provi- dence , by a vote of twenty - one to fourteen . Soon after this decision , the President and Professor Howell , with their pupils , removed to Providence , occupying for 1886. ] 7 BROWN UNIVERSITY .
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... Professor Howell were gradu- ated . The spot selected for it was the crest of a hill , which then commanded a view of the bay , the river , with the town on its banks , and a broad reach of country on all sides . The land com- prised ...
... Professor Howell were gradu- ated . The spot selected for it was the crest of a hill , which then commanded a view of the bay , the river , with the town on its banks , and a broad reach of country on all sides . The land com- prised ...
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... Professor of Divinity . The career of this remarkable man indicates a high order of genius . At the early age of fifteen he had entered the Institution as a pupil , graduating in 1787 with the highest honors of his class . Imme- diately ...
... Professor of Divinity . The career of this remarkable man indicates a high order of genius . At the early age of fifteen he had entered the Institution as a pupil , graduating in 1787 with the highest honors of his class . Imme- diately ...
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... professor in the Institution . He was thus thoroughly conversant with its history , and familiar with its special needs . The Rev. Dr. E. G. Robinson , the present active and efficient president , entered upon his duties in the fall of ...
... professor in the Institution . He was thus thoroughly conversant with its history , and familiar with its special needs . The Rev. Dr. E. G. Robinson , the present active and efficient president , entered upon his duties in the fall of ...
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Page 319 - of Briton, and that the privileges of his people are dearer to him than the most valuable prerogatives of his crown; and it is in opposition to a kind of power, the exercise of which in former periods of English history cost one king his head, and another his
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Page 319 - I renounced that office, and I argue this cause from the same principle, and I argue it with the greater pleasure as it is in favor of British liberty at a time when we hear the greatest monarch upon earth declaring from his throne that he glories in the
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Page 316 - that you, in behalf of this colony, dissent from and utterly reject any proposition, should such be made, that may cause or lead to a separation from our mother country, or a change of the form of this government.
Page 319 - independence was then and there born. Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take up arms against the “writs of assistance.