Genealogies of the Male Descendants of Daniel Dod, of Branford,Conn., a Native of England: 1646 to 1863

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Printed at the Daily advertiser office, 1864 - 221 pagina's
 

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Pagina 205 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns 30 the throne and equipage of God's almightiness.
Pagina 208 - God; let them also be merry and joyful. 4 O sing unto God, and sing praises unto his Name; magnify him that rideth upon the heavens, as it were upon an horse ; praise him in his Name JAH, and rejoice before him. 5 He is a Father of the fatherless, and defendeth the cause of the widows; even God in his holy habitation.
Pagina 197 - I am not afraid to look death in the face. I can say — Death, where is thy sting ? Death cannot hurt me.
Pagina 142 - ... three and four years. On his return from Virginia, he remained at home a few months, and in the autumn of 1826 became a member of the Theological Seminary at Princeton. The next year he accepted a Tutorship in Princeton College, still continuing his theological studies, as he had opportunity. He was licensed to preach, in the spring of 1828, by the Presbytery of New York, but retained his office as Tutor till 1829. In 1830 he was appointed to the Mathematical Professorship in the College —...
Pagina 205 - God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His Church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Pagina 198 - Providence, he obeyed and went. When he came to the house, after knocking a few times at the door, the gentleman himself came, and inquired if he wanted him upon any particular business. Mr. Dod having answered in the negative, and signified that he could not rest till he had seen him, the gentleman replied, " Oh, sir, you are sent of God at this very hour, for I was just now going to destroy myself!
Pagina 196 - When this good man was over ninety years of age, during the civil wars, some of the king's party came to his house, and threatened to knock him on the head. He calmly replied : " If you do, you will send me to heaven, where I long to be ; but you can do nothing except God give you leave.
Pagina 198 - Christ, without taking the least offence, held the teeth out in his hand, and said, " See here, you have knocked out two of my teeth without any just provocation ; but if I could do your soul good, I would give you leave to dash out all the rest.
Pagina 141 - ... advance of his schoolfellows, and was prepared to enter the Sophomore class at Princeton. His parents, thinking that he was too young to commence a collegiate course, concluded to send him to Dr. Armstrong, who had resigned his pastoral charge, and was then teaching a classical school in the neighbouring town of Bloomfield. He remained there, however, but one term, and spent the winter of that year at home, — reading, and teaching the younger children of the family. In the spring of 1821, being...
Pagina 181 - ... a planter in our Town, and hath Liberty to possess Lands by Gift or Purchase, according to Town Rights as other Planters do. Item — Samuel Dod hath Granted to him, that Twenty-five Acres laid out already on Watseson ; and that Part of Swamp laid out to him by the Surveyor, Containing about Twenty Acres ; provided it shall lie Common for Stone and Timber as the Third Division doth ; and that Part of Land belonging to the Town (if any) lying near Hance's ; provided it prejudiceth not the Highway....

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