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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... seem to have been in a great measure warded off by physical education - by being properly supplied with food , with sleep , with air , with exercise , with exposure , with shelter and with pleasant pursuits . O , that my education in ...
... seem to have been in a great measure warded off by physical education - by being properly supplied with food , with sleep , with air , with exercise , with exposure , with shelter and with pleasant pursuits . O , that my education in ...
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... seems to me , I can never be driven . Is it not most unpropitious to the progress of mental philosophy , that a person can hardly publish the exercises of his own mind , but at the risk of his character ? RIVAL AT SCHOOL . 27 Presuming ...
... seems to me , I can never be driven . Is it not most unpropitious to the progress of mental philosophy , that a person can hardly publish the exercises of his own mind , but at the risk of his character ? RIVAL AT SCHOOL . 27 Presuming ...
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... seem , even now , to see the very spot in the pleasant pasture , where I walked mournfully by my- self , as the sun was setting , and my spirit oppressed with the apprehension , that this brother , who now seemed quite the dearest to me ...
... seem , even now , to see the very spot in the pleasant pasture , where I walked mournfully by my- self , as the sun was setting , and my spirit oppressed with the apprehension , that this brother , who now seemed quite the dearest to me ...
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... seems that then there existed that sickly sentimentality which is sometimes heard uttering the plaintive moan of “ charity " in behalf of error , and even of infidelity , while at the same time it is full of asperity towards all who ...
... seems that then there existed that sickly sentimentality which is sometimes heard uttering the plaintive moan of “ charity " in behalf of error , and even of infidelity , while at the same time it is full of asperity towards all who ...
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... seems sometimes as if I liked her bet- ter than every body else . Surely I never knew before how much I esteemed her . You now seem almost like an only sister . My school has lately been small . My task has been easy , and my health was ...
... seems sometimes as if I liked her bet- ter than every body else . Surely I never knew before how much I esteemed her . You now seem almost like an only sister . My school has lately been small . My task has been easy , and my health was ...
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