Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lyman Beecher” in chapter 1.11, page 213 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2:
...that at its best may be likened, to use a metaphor of his own, to the beat of wings.
Henry Ward Beecher, too, was born in the orthodox uplands of Litchfield, and of a strictly Calvinistic sire.
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) had studied theology under Timothy Dwight at Yale; had occupied, after 1798, first the Presbyterian
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