 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 566 pagina’s
...and fallacious apology, in which ho varnished over the crimes of the Stuarts, hud not then appeared. To draw the character of Mayhew would be to transcribe...of his great fame into the scale of his country in 1701, and maintained it there with zeal and ardor till his death, in 1706." Dr. Mayhew was born, of... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 562 pagina’s
...and fallacious apology, in which ho varnished over the crimes of the Stuarts, had not then appeared. To draw the character of Mayhew would be to transcribe a dozen volumes. This transcendent genins threw all the weight of his great fame into the scale of his country in 1761, and maintained... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1864 - 842 pagina’s
...Adams, "a clergyman equalled by very few of any denomination in piety, virtue, genius, and learning. This transcendent genius threw all the weight of his great fame into the scale of hia country." " Whoever," says Bancroft, " repeats the story of the Revolution will rehearse the fame... | |
 | George Burley Spalding - 1876 - 46 pagina’s
...Mayhew," writes Adams, " would be to transcribe a dozen volumes." " This transcendent genius," he adds, " threw all the weight of his great fame into the scale of his country from the first, and maintained it there with zeal and ardor to his death." ft was this Congregational... | |
 | 1890 - 746 pagina’s
...enemies. Dr. Mayhew seemed to be raised up to revive all the animosity of the people against tyranny, both in Church and State, and at the same time to destroy...weight of his great fame into the scale of his country and maintained it." A discourse in 1 754, on the day of the general election, concerning the Nature... | |
 | Jasper Mauduit - 1918 - 954 pagina’s
...shall be no more." And yet it is not surprising that the spirit of independence should have С xxii 2 grown strong between the time of the first settlement...of his great fame into the scale of his country in 1 761, and maintained it there with zeal and ardor till his death in 1766. С ххш 3 He was called... | |
 | Southampton Record Society (Southampton, England) - 1924 - 160 pagina’s
...repeal of the Stamp Act caused John Adams to speak of him as " the transcendent genius of his day, who threw all the weight of his great fame into the scale of his country."1 # 9 as » » 9 -:•:- -3 -3 •£- 0 « Attention may be drawn to the notes on the rectory... | |
 | 1818 - 500 pagina’s
...and fallacious apology in which he varnished over the crimes iif the Stuarts, had not then appeared. To draw the character of Mayhew would be to transcribe a dozen volumes. This transcen dant genius threw all the \veight of his great fame into the scale of his country in 176 1,... | |
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To draw the character of Mayhew would be to transcribe a dozen volumes. This transcendant genius threw all the weight of his great fame into the scale of his country in 1761, and maintained it there with zeal and ardor till his death in 1766. 
