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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 9 1 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 3: (search)
d gave two hundred and thirty-eight votes for him, and twenty-eight for Mr. Dexter. More than twenty-eight votes against him were never given in Medford during the seven years he was Governor. The uniformity of his example in attending public worship had a powerful influence on the people of Medford. He was never absent, morning or afternoon, when he could be present; and his attention to the preacher was profound. He often made an abstract of the sermon. His favorite moral writer was Paley; and he used to speak of his Horae Paulinae as an unanswerable book. When the controversy between the Calvinists and Unitarians arose in 1820, he took side with the latter, but never liked the extremes of either sect. For many years he had wished to make a public profession of his faith in Christianity; but had been deterred by the minister's custom of calling upon each candidate to express belief in certain doctrines, some of which doctrines he did not believe. In 1817, he had come to th
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
wing, continued. 4.Natural Philosophy, completed. 5.Olmstead's or Norton's Astronomy. 6.Wayland's Moral Philosophy. 7.Paley's Natural Theology. 8.Physiology, commenced. 9.Cleveland's Compendium of English Literature. The Spanish, Italian, or ued; Euclid, five books. History: Weber, continued to the end of Ancient history; Roman Commonwealth. Natural Theology: Paley's. Rhetoric: English Grammar, and Orthophony, continued; Themes; Declamations. Sophomore class.--First Term.--Latin: Hurveying; Navigation. History: Weber, continued to the end of the Middle Ages; Hallam's Middle Ages. Revealed Religion: Paley's Evidences. Rhetoric: Elocution; Themes; Declamations. Second Term.--Latin: Cicero de Officiis; Writing Latin. Greee Christian Examiner: -- Reason and Faith, vol. III.; Article on Dr. Robert South's Discourses, vol IV.; Article on Dr. Paley's Life and Writings, vol. v.; Article on Dr. Young's Library of Old English Prose Writers, vol. VI., new series; Arti