 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1846 - 736 pagine
...no longer opposed. •f Rev. John Brown of Haverhill. ciety innocently cheerful. He would sometimes, it is said, descend to that jesting, which an Apostle...acceptable service a tract of land, now Liverpool, in lhat province, was granted to him by the crown. Taking a lively interest in the American revolution,... | |
 | Duane Hamilton Hurd - 1884 - 602 pagine
...uttered them with fearless freedom. A ; warm friend to the interests of his country, he zeal- ! ously advocated its civil and religious freedom. By appointment...served one campaign as chaplain to a colonial regiment in Nova Scotia, and for his service a tract of land (now Liverpool) in that province was granted him... | |
 | 1902 - 650 pagine
...Cohasset, where he was ordained Sept. 2, 1747, and where he preached until the last Sabbath of his life. A warm friend to the interests of his country, he...zealously advocated its civil and religious freedom. He served one campaign as chaplain to a Colonial regiment in Nova Scotia, and for his service was granted... | |
 | Samuel Atkins Eliot - 1910 - 336 pagine
...not convenient. He was never prone to labor much with his hands nor to intense application of mind. A warm friend to the interests of his country, he...zealously advocated its civil and religious freedom. Taking a lively interest in the American Revolution, he encouraged by example and preaching his fellow-citizens... | |
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He would sometimes, it is said, descend to that jesting, which an Apostle has told us, is not convenient. He was never prone to labour much with his hands, nor to intense application of mind, in abstruse subjects. A warm friend to the interests of his... 