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...