| Abiel Holmes - 1801 - 142 halaman
...may, without refleclion upon any, be faid, that he was one of the greateft lights, that ever {hone in this part of the world, or that is ever like to...Oakes, of which I find any account, are : An Artillery Eleclion Sermon, on Rom. viii. 37, preached June 3, 1672 ; . - " An Election Sermon, on Deut. xxxii.... | |
| American education society - 1836 - 424 halaman
...It may without reflection upon any he said, that he was one of the greatest lights that ever shone in this part of the world, or that is ever like to arise in our horizon." His tomhstone still remains at Camhridge. The inscription which follows, copied... | |
| 1846 - 302 halaman
...may, without reflection upon any, be said, that he was one of the greatest lights, that ever shone in this part of the world, or that is ever like to arise in our horizon." The only publications of Mr. Oakes, of which I find any account, are : An Artillery... | |
| Cotton Mather - 1853 - 696 halaman
...It may without reflection upon any be said, that ' he was one of the greatest lights that ever shone in this part of the world, or that is ever like to arise in our Horizon.' He is now become a 'royal diadem in the hand of the Lord?" being, as one speaks... | |
| Cotton Mather - 1853 - 692 halaman
...It may without reflection upon any be said, that ' he was one of the greatest lights that ever shone in this part of the world, or that is ever like to arise in our Horizon.' He is now become a 'royal diadem in the hand of the Lord?' being, as one speaks... | |
| William Buell Sprague - 1857 - 766 halaman
...may, without reflection upon any, be said, that he was one of the greatest light« that ever shone in this part of the world, or that is ever like to arise in our horizon. He is now become a royal diadem in the hand of the Lord; being, as one speaks... | |
| John Langdon Sibley, Clifford Kenyon Shipton - 1873 - 658 halaman
...without reflection, upon any, be truly said, that He was one of the greatest Lights that ever shone in this part of the World, or that is ever like to arise in this Horizon." Cotton Mather says: "He was upon all Accounts truly, an Admirable Person. Consider'd... | |
| Moses Coit Tyler - 1878 - 354 halaman
...93-96. I have quoted from ihe latter. Urian Oakes " was one of the greatest lights that ever shone in this part of the world, or that is ever like to arise in this horizon."1 He seems to have been what another contemporary2 called him, a man of great... | |
| Moses Coit Tyler - 1890 - 664 halaman
...j.6 HISTOR Y OF AMERICAN LITER A TURE. Urian Oakes " was one of the greatest lights that ever shone in this part of the world, or that is ever like to arise in this horizon."1 He seems to have been what another contemporary2 called him, a man of great... | |
| Arthur Gilman - 1889 - 540 halaman
...fulsome compliment in 1682, when he wrote that Oakes " was one of the greatest lights that ever shone in this part of the world, or that is ever like to arise in this horizon." Cotton Mather was a strange mixture of strength and weakness, of wisdom and... | |
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