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Title: Obligations of the teacher to his profession: an address
delivered before the associate alumni of the Merrimack Normal
Institute, at their second annual meeting, Sept. 3, 1851.Author:
Edwin David SanbornPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana,
Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books,
pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the
time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich
in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and
westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions,
Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and
more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the
western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on
the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first
decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in
North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this
collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs,
culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It
provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons,
political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation,
literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality
digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand,
making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent
scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00587600CollectionID:
CTRG10179157-BPublicationDate: 18510101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: "Published by request of the Association."Collation:
23 p.; 21 cm
Title: History of New Hampshire, from its first discovery to the
year 1830, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
HISTORY OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA collection includes books from
the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection refers
to the European settlements in North America through independence,
with emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain.
Attention is paid to the histories of Jamestown and the early
colonial interactions with Native Americans. The contextual
framework of this collection highlights 16th century English,
Scottish, French, Spanish, and Dutch expansion. ++++The below data
was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Sanborn, Edwin David; 1875. 8 . 9605.e.6.
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to
www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books
for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
MILLENARIANISM. " Here," said a student tp Casaubon, as they
entered the old Hall of the Sorbonne, " is a building in which men
have disputed for four hundred years." " And," asked Casaubon, "
what has been settled? " How does it happen that the labors of
learned men so often prove utterly worthless, and rather encumber
than aid the honest inquirer after truth. It is simply because they
mistake the proper objects of human inquiry, and exceed the limits
which God has set to the understanding of man. They investigate
subjects that cannot be known, and attempt to solve questions that
cannot be answered. It is probable that one half, at least, of the
works of philosophers and theologians might be annihilated, in a
moment, without abridging the means of human improvement, or
injuring the cause of true science. " Our public libraries," says
Hallam, " are cemeteries of departed reputation; and the dust
accumulating upon their untouched volumes speaks as forcibly as the
grass that waves over the ruins of Babylon." Fortunate would it be
for mankind, if the Babylon of controversial theology were
sleeping, side by side, with its great prototype; but modern
enthusiasts build again the tombs of the old prophets and those
potent heresiarchs, who ruled among the nations, in former ages, "
even all of them lie in glory, each in his own house." If their
tomes were as innocuous as their tombs, we would " let the dead
bury their dead," in quiet; but the literature which bewilders and
misleads the humble inquirer after Divine truth, is infinitely more
pernicious than that which caters to the passions of the carnal
heart. There is hope that the " very chief of sinners " may be
converted and saved; but the state of those fanatics, " whose
little reading and less meditating, hold ever with hardest o...
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