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Title: Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years ..
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Common Council Willis, Samuel J Valentine, D. T. (David Thomas) 1801-1869 Shannon, Joseph Hardy, John
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Publisher: New York : The Council
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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ed, and familiar. His Discourses remarkable for a pleasing Variety. of the Natural and Sublime, Yet intelligible to the most Illiterate : His style was nervous, and emphatic. Yet neither destitute of flowing Periods, Nor the Flowers of Rhetoric. To ecclesiastical Dominion, and spiritual Bondage, To blind Superstition, and frantic Enthusiasm ; with every species of ghostly Tyranny and Priest-craft, He was a resolute, and irreconciloable Foe : But for primitive Christianity, and the Gospel of Christ, (unadulterate with human Inventions or the Roguery of Priests) Together with a Freedom of Enquiry and the Liberty of Man, A Triumphant Pefender. Unambitious of Power, Affluence, or Honours, He consecrated his literary Acquirements, to inculcate Religion in its Evangelical Purity : And looking on the glittering Toys of mortal Life with a wise Indifference ; He laid up Treasures in the Regions above, Where he now partakes, as the Keward of his Toils, Pleasures immortal and evoriasting Repose.
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6S9 By his Doctrine, his Prayors, and his Life, He livd the Blessing, and Ornament of his People, for above the sp:ico of Fifty-two years ; And longing for Heaven, and for Heaven mature, He depirted this Life with S:!renity a id Joy, or rather Acclamation and Triumph ; Bequeathing to his Church Lamentation and Woe, And to his Followers a bright and shining Example. His Remains were interrd in the Old Dutch Chuich, where they sleep in Expectation of a glorious Resurrection. May his Congregation pass from the Weakness of regretting him, To the Contemplation of his Virtues ; And rather adorn his Memory with deathless Praises By imitating his Pattern, and adopting his Excellencies. IMIB!-aiM!I^JWiiiUlt.il.UW!UI»U^.^<»i^».t.t,.-tlJ^ —araimq!; —N. Y. Gazette^ Revived in the Weddy Post Boy, Oct. 14, 1751. Neio York, Octoljer 28. On Thursday last our Supreme Courtended here, at which a Negro Man lately belonging to Mr.Charles Beckman, was tried, and convicted, for two Burglaries;one

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