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Page 49 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.
Page 164 - I once heard the Hon. John Dickinson, Chief Judge of the Middlesex County Court, Connecticut, and son of the Rev. Mr. Dickinson, of Norwalk, say that the establishment of Princeton College was owing to the sympathy felt for David Brainerd, because the authorities of Yale College would not give him his degree, and that the plan of the College was drawn in his father's house.
Page 164 - Haddam, where I have spent more than twenty-five years of my ministry, and as I have passed hundreds of times by the place where the house stood in which David Brainerd was born, the cellar of which is still visible, I am certain that I have declared the precise fact that Judge Dickinson uttered. Nor is this the whole proof of the fact. There is evidence that the Rev. Aaron Burr said, after the rise of Princeton College, that it would never have come into existence if it had not been for the expulsion...
Page 212 - Let them come ; They come like sacrifices in their trim, And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war All hot and bleeding will we offer them : The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit Up to the ears in blood.
Page 234 - Scottish universities, providing for a course of lectures "the general tendency of which may be such as will illustrate the presence and wisdom of God as manifested in the natural and moral world.
Page 232 - I hereby declare my free assent to the confession of faith and rules of ecclesiastical discipline agreed upon by the churches of the state in the year 1708.
Page 115 - I owe that success to the influence of Tutor Loomis more than to any other cause whatever." Professor Loomis lived a somewhat isolated life, especially in his later years, but there was in him no trace of selfish or morbid feeling. In council his advice was always marked by his clear judgment of what was important, and at the same time what was practicable. After going to New York he had...
Page 135 - My four years' residence at New Haven College were distinguished by nothing material in the memoranda of my life. I had the reputation of being quick to learn, and of being industrious and full of emulation. I surpassed most of my class in historical and belles-lettres learning, and was full of youthful vivacity and ardor ; I was amazingly regular, decorous, and industrious, and, in my last year, received a large share of the esteem and approbation of the President and tutors. I left New Haven September,...
Page 53 - College, joined in a separation from their College Brethren, & among the rest Sir who spake with less Delicacy than was prudent upon the Candidates & their Company. This excited the Resentment of all College. On Monday night last, the Undergraduates in disguise took him under the College Pump — an high Indignity to any & especially towards a Graduate.
Page 137 - We learned the alphabet, and worried through two or three Psalms, after a fashion ; with most of us it was mere pretense. The President had the reputation of being very learned in Hebrew, as well as several other Eastern dialects. For the Hebrew he professed a high veneration.