 | Josiah Quincy - 1840 - 650 páginas
...was chosen President for his piety."* In another place he thus gives scope to his feelings; " I am informed that yesterday the six men who call themselves the Corporation of the College met, and, contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country, chose a modest young man, of whose... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 740 páginas
...was chosen President for his piety. ' " In another place he thus gives scope to his feelings ; ' I am informed that yesterday the six men who call themselves the Corporation of the College met, and, contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country, chose a modest young man, of whose... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1836 - 378 páginas
...president, and Dr. Sewall was accordingly chosen. The effect is thus recorded in the Diary. " I am informed that yesterday, the six men, who call themselves the Corporation of the College met, and, contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country, chose a modest young man, Sewall,... | |
 | 1882 - 598 páginas
...themselves the Corporation of the College met, and contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country, chose a modest young man, of whose piety (and little else) every one gives a laudable character. I always foretold these two things of the Corporation; first, if it were possible for them... | |
 | Samuel Sewall - 1882 - 588 páginas
...themselves the Corporation of the College met, and contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country, chose a modest young man, of whose piety (and little else) every one gives a laudable character. I always foretold these two things of the Corporation; first, if it were possible for them... | |
 | John Langdon Sibley - 1885 - 478 páginas
...Corporation did not think so, and elected Joseph Sewall, HU 1707. Thereupon Mather writes, 12 August, "I am now informed, that yesterday the Six Men, who call themselves the Corporation of the Colledge mett, and contrary to the Epidemical Expectation of ye Countrey, chose a modest Young Man,... | |
 | Harvard University, Justin Winsor - 1887 - 410 páginas
...themselves the corporation of the college met, and, contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country, chose a modest young man, of whose piety (and little else) every one gives a laudable character. I always foretold these two things of the corporation : first, that if it were possible... | |
 | Harvard University, Justin Winsor - 1887 - 408 páginas
...nearly, Cotton Mather had succeeded his father as president. " I am informed," he says in his wrath, " that yesterday the six men who call themselves the corporation of the college met, and, contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country, chose a modest young man, of whose... | |
 | Hamilton Andrews Hill - 1889 - 664 páginas
...disappointed aspirant to the presidency, Dr. Cotton Mather, is an illustration in point : — I am informed that yesterday the six men who call themselves the Corporation of the College met, and contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country, chose a modest young man, of whose... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1889 - 538 páginas
...of singular service " to the college, but Dr. Sewall was chosen ; whereupon Mather writes : " I am informed that yesterday the six men who call themselves the corporation of the college met, and, contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country, chose a modest young man, Sewall,... | |
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I am informed," he says in his wrath, "that yesterday the six men who call themselves the corporation of the college met, and, contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country, chose a modest young man, of whose piety (and little else) every one... 
