Life of Rev. Joseph Emerson: Pastor of the Third Congregational Church in Beverly, Ms., and Subsequently Principal of a Female SeminaryCrocker and Brewster, 1834 - 454 pages Joseph Emerson attended Harvard College and taught in Framingham, Mass., until his call in 1803 to the pulpit in Beverly. In 1816, he resigned this position because of ill health, and subsequently taught and/or served churches in Byfield and Saugus, Mass., and Wethersfield, Conn. He took two long visits to Charleston, S.C. This biography, by his brother, concludes with a genealogical survey of the Emerson family. |
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... mention , which will serve to illustrate at once his native temperament and the power of early discipline . I have it from my sister Smith , who took the chief care of him in EFFECT OF EARLY DISCIPLINE . 19 his tender years , 18 ...
... mention , which will serve to illustrate at once his native temperament and the power of early discipline . I have it from my sister Smith , who took the chief care of him in EFFECT OF EARLY DISCIPLINE . 19 his tender years , 18 ...
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... mentioned and very desirable effect , as that of the farmer . Common sense is every thing to the farmer , and must be kept in constant requisi- tion . A tact for devising expedients to the accomplish- ment of the details of his business ...
... mentioned and very desirable effect , as that of the farmer . Common sense is every thing to the farmer , and must be kept in constant requisi- tion . A tact for devising expedients to the accomplish- ment of the details of his business ...
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... mention of him in my hearing , some years after , by Esq . Hartwell , in whose family he boarded . In the year 1794 , he entered the freshmen class in Cambridge College , in the seventeenth year of his age , at the time when his oldest ...
... mention of him in my hearing , some years after , by Esq . Hartwell , in whose family he boarded . In the year 1794 , he entered the freshmen class in Cambridge College , in the seventeenth year of his age , at the time when his oldest ...
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... cities , who declared , in my hearing , more than twenty years ago , that nothing but his ambition kept him back from absolute profligacy and ruin , while in college . I could mention many other instances , in which I have no doubt.
... cities , who declared , in my hearing , more than twenty years ago , that nothing but his ambition kept him back from absolute profligacy and ruin , while in college . I could mention many other instances , in which I have no doubt.
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... mentioning the chief thing to which he alludes . The particular is that in which he speaks of his previous apprehension , ' that reli- gion would deprive him of amusements which he could not bear to relinquish . ' Dancing was the ...
... mentioning the chief thing to which he alludes . The particular is that in which he speaks of his previous apprehension , ' that reli- gion would deprive him of amusements which he could not bear to relinquish . ' Dancing was the ...
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