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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingersoll , Robert Green 1833 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Amsterdam. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Paine , Robert treat , Jr. 1773 -1811 (search)
Paine, Robert treat, Jr. 1773-1811
Poet, son of the signer; born in Taunton, Mass., Dec. 9, 1773; graduated at Harvard University in 1792; was originally named Thomas, but in view of the character of Thomas Paine, author of Common sense, he had it changed by the legislature, he desiring, as he said, to bear a Christian name.
He became a journalist and a poet, and was the author of the popular ode entitled Adams and liberty.
He became a lawyer in 1802, and retired from the profession in 1809.
His last important poem—The Steeds of Apollo—was written in his father's house in Boston.
He died in Boston, Nov. 13, 1811.
Adams and liberty.
In the spring and early summer of 1798 a war-spirit of great intensity excited the American people.
The conduct of France towards the United States and its ministers had caused the American government to make preparations for war upon the French.
In June Paine was engaged to write a patriotic song to be sung at the anniversary of the Massac
Quakers, Christian
In 1692 there was a schism among the Friends, or Quakers, in Pennsylvania, caused by the action of George Keith, a Scotch Friend, formerly surveyor of east Jersey, and at this time master of the Friends' school at Philadelphia.
He was a champion of the Quakers against Cotton Mather and the Boston ministers.
He pressed the doctrine of non-resistance to its logical conclusion, that this principle was not consistent with the exercise of political authority.
He also attacked negro slavery as inconsistent with those principles.
So sharply did Keith criticise the shortcomings of his co-religionists that he was disowned by the Yearly Meeting, when he forthwith instituted a meeting of his own, to which he gave the name of Christian Quakers.
A Testimony of Denial was put forth against Keith, who replied in a published address, in which he handled his adversaries without mercy.
The Quaker magistrates fined him for insolence, and William Bradford, the only printer
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Toleration acts. (search)