Observations on Professions, Literature, Manners, and Emigration in the United States and Canada: Made During a Residence There in 1832J. & J. Harper, 1833 - 247 páginas |
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... Influence of Clergy-- Changes in Professions - Emoluments of Clergy - State of Learning - Prospects of English Clergymen in the States- Character of American Clergy - Methodist Bigotry . . . . CHAPTER III . Reasons for Abandoning the ...
... Influence of Clergy-- Changes in Professions - Emoluments of Clergy - State of Learning - Prospects of English Clergymen in the States- Character of American Clergy - Methodist Bigotry . . . . CHAPTER III . Reasons for Abandoning the ...
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... Influence of Clergy- Changes in Professions - Emoluments of Clergy - State of Learning - Prospects of English Clergymen in the States- Character of American Clergy - Methodist Bigotry . . . . . . 27 CHAPTER III . Reasons for Abandoning ...
... Influence of Clergy- Changes in Professions - Emoluments of Clergy - State of Learning - Prospects of English Clergymen in the States- Character of American Clergy - Methodist Bigotry . . . . . . 27 CHAPTER III . Reasons for Abandoning ...
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... giving correct information , that no man , whatever be his worth or acquirements , has much chance of obtaining either collegiate or clerical promotion there , unless he have personal influence with a majority of the electors.
... giving correct information , that no man , whatever be his worth or acquirements , has much chance of obtaining either collegiate or clerical promotion there , unless he have personal influence with a majority of the electors.
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Made During a Residence There in 1832 Isaac Fidler. he have personal influence with a majority of the electors . A stranger is entirely excluded by such a system . The only thing open to an English clergy- man , in a regular way , is the ...
Made During a Residence There in 1832 Isaac Fidler. he have personal influence with a majority of the electors . A stranger is entirely excluded by such a system . The only thing open to an English clergy- man , in a regular way , is the ...
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... Influence of Clergy- Changes in Professions - Emoluments of Clergy - State of Learning - Prospects of English Clergymen in the States Character of American Clergy . - Methodist Bigotry . SOON after my arrival , I called on an American ...
... Influence of Clergy- Changes in Professions - Emoluments of Clergy - State of Learning - Prospects of English Clergymen in the States Character of American Clergy . - Methodist Bigotry . SOON after my arrival , I called on an American ...
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Página 231 - Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier. Including an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Seas, and the History of the Bucanien With Portraits.
Página 230 - THE LIFE OF MOHAMMED, Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens.
Página 28 - And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold : them also must I bring, and they shall hear my voice ; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Página 83 - Frenchman, accommodating himself cheerfully to all the vicissitudes of life, incorporates himself, without difficulty, in our society. But, of all foreigners, none amalgamate themselves so quickly with our people as the natives of the Emerald Isle. In some of the visions which have passed through my imagination, I have supposed that Ireland was, originally, part and parcel of this continent, and that, by some extraordinary convulsion of nature, it was torn frorii America, and, drifting across the...
Página 205 - ... happy, as well as the asylum of the distressed ; fill up the measure of your population as speedily as you can, by the means which Heaven hath placed in your power : and I venture to prophesy there are those now living who will see this...
Página 83 - The same open-heartedness ; the same generous hospitality ; the same careless and uncalculating indifference about human life ; characterize the inhabitants of both countries. Kentucky has been sometimes called the Ireland of America. And I have no doubt, that if the current of emigration were reversed, and set from America upon the shores of Europe instead of bearing from Europe to America, every American emigrant to Ireland would there find, as every Irish emigrant here finds, a hearty welcome...
Página 228 - The Percy Anecdotes. Revised Edition. To which is added, a valuable Collection of American Anecdotes, original and selected. • 8vo.
Página 232 - HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY ON THE MORE NORTHERN COASTS OF NORTH AMERICA.