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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 3 3 Browse Search
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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Harriet Beecher Stowe. (search)
despised, hath God chosen . . to bring to naught things that are; that no flesh should glory in his presence ? The critical watchmen took it very hardly that Miss Prissy should free her mind in such a shockingly latitudinarian manner. That estimable but garrulous young lady ventured to say, We don't ever know what God's grace hhose wild son had fallen from the mast-head of a vessel, to the effect that from the mast-head to the deck was time enough for divine grace to do its work. But Miss Prissy is certainly a very pure and consistent Calvinist in all she says. Taking into account the doctrines of an unconditional and absolute personal election, and tit that of an instantaneous regeneration by a divine power that descends irresistibly upon each elect individual at the predestinated moment, it seems as though Miss Prissy was simply making a practical application of the Hopkinsian theology, and giving poor Jim the benefit of it. The twenty-third chapter, entitled Views of divi