Author: Frederic A. Whitney
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266224488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Excerpt from An Historical Sketch of the Old Church, Quincy, Mass On the removal of the corner stairs, room was made for pews below and above. March an article in the warrant for a town meeting is in these words, To know if the Town will sell the floor where the stair ways was in the gallery. Whereupon, Voted that the floor where the old stair ways was, the vacancy in the gallery be appropriated for the use of the black people to sit in. Large square pews, somewhat elevated, were built in the corner of the west, or singers' gallery on this space here referred to; and the few colored persons in town were accustomed to sit there. In the appendix to the historical discourse in 1855, on the hundredth anniversary of the formation of the first church in Templeton, Mass, by Rev. Edwin G. Adams, junior pastor, may be seen a diagram on which these elevated corner pews are well represented. At a Town meeting May 5, 1800, just three months after the ordination of Rev. Mr. Whitney, Voted Moses Black Esq, Mr. Thomas Pratt, Peter B. Adams, Esq., be a committee, and are hereby empowered to sell the floor on the back part of the end galleries sufficient to make a row of pews of. This vote does not appear to have been carried into effect. No pews were ever built in the north or men's gallery. And in the south gallery, a few pews were, several years after, builtin the east end, leaving more than half the gallery in free seats for women. There was originally a row of pews on the back of the west gal lery, and several of them in the middle were subsequently taken away to leave more space for the singers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William R. Thomas
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Category : Quincy (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Ebenezer Alden
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Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Author: Augustus Longstreet Hull
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Harriet Manning Whitcomb
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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"Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain" by Harriet Manning Whitcomb Jamaica Plain is a diverse, tight-knit neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. In this book, Whitcomb dives into the history of this fascinating area through the words and memories of those who called it home. Written as part of a memorial project, the book continues to capture the essence of one of Boston's most unique neighborhoods.
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Author: Mark G. Spencer
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271068418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume “deserted philosophical studies in favour of historical” ones. History and philosophy are commensurate in Hume’s thought and works from the beginning to the end. Only by recognizing this can we begin to make sense of Hume’s canon as a whole and see clearly his many contributions to fields we now recognize as the distinct disciplines of history, philosophy, political science, economics, literature, religious studies, and much else besides. Casting their individual beams of light on various nooks and crannies of Hume’s historical thought and writing, the book’s contributors illuminate the whole in a way that would not be possible from the perspective of a single-authored study. Aside from the editor, the contributors are David Allan, M. A. Box, Timothy M. Costelloe, Roger L. Emerson, Jennifer Herdt, Philip Hicks, Douglas Long, Claudia M. Schmidt, Michael Silverthorne, Jeffrey M. Suderman, Mark R. M. Towsey, and F. L. van Holthoon.
Author: Thomas Crane Public Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Author: Leonard Bacon
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Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Author: Antoine-Nicholas Condorcet
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578016664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Perhaps the last great work of the Enlightenment, this landmark in intellectual history is the Marquis de Condorcet's homage to the human future emancipated from its chains and led by the progress of reason and the establishment of liberty. Writing in 1794, while in hiding, under sentence of death from the Jacobins in revolutionary France, Condorcet surveys human history and speculates upon its future. With William Godwin, he is the chief foil of Malthus's Essay on Population. Portrayed by Malthus as an elate and giddy optimist, Condorcet foresees a future of indefinite progress. Freed from ignorance and superstition, he argues that the human race stands on the threshold of epochal progress and limitless improvement. Condorcet defies modernist stereotypes of the right and the left. He is at once precursor of the free market and social democracy. This new edition of the original 1795 English translation, is the only English translation of a work of Condorcet currently in print.
