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After the rest of the world had been shocked out of such mischievous nonsense, by the horrid results at Salem, on the fifth of March, 1694, as President of Harvard College, he issued a Circular to "The Reverend Ministers of the Gospel, in the several Churches in New England," signed by himself and seven others, members of the Corporation of that institution, urging it, as the special duty of Ministers of the Gospel, to obtain and preserve knowledge of notable occurrences, described under the general head of "Remarkables," and classified as follows: "The things to be esteemed memorable are, especially, all unusual accidents, in the heaven, or earth, or water; all wonderful deliverances of the distressed; mercies to the godly; judgments to the wicked; and more glorious fulfilments of either the promises or the threatenings, in the Scriptures of truth; with apparitions, possessions, inchantments, and all extraordinary things wherein the existence and agency of the invisible world is more sensibly demonstrated."
The weather has rather tended to confirm the first omen, but the sea-captains tell me that the steamer must have gone beyond the scope of these winds. October 14th. -In the morning of Tuesday, after breakfast in the coffee-room, J and I walked about to see the remarkables of Worcester.
Remarkables: An author at the American Stationers' Company, slapping his hand on his manuscript, and crying, "I'm going to publish." An excursion aboard a steamboat to Thompson's Island, to visit the Manual Labor School for boys. Aboard the steamboat several poets and various other authors; a Commodore, Colton, a small, dark brown, sickly man, with a good deal of roughness in his address; Mr.
They show that the Clergy, generally, were indifferent to the subject, and required to be aroused from "neglect" and "sleepiness," touching the duty of flooding the public mind with stories of "wonders" and "remarkables;" and that the agency of the Mathers, in giving currency, by means of their ministry and influence, to such ideas, was peculiar and pre-eminent.
However, I think you will make it easier by and by, if you live. There are three kinds of people Commonplace Men, Remarkable Men, and Lunatics. I'll classify you with the Remarkables, and take the chances." The deal went through, and secured to the young stranger the first fortune he ever pocketed. The people of Sydney ought to be afraid of the sharks, but for some reason they do not seem to be.
The weather has rather tended to confirm the first omen, but the sea-captains tell me that the steamer must have gone beyond the scope of these winds. October 14th. -In the morning of Tuesday, after breakfast in the coffee-room, J and I walked about to see the remarkables of Worcester.
However, I think you will make it easier by and by, if you live. There are three kinds of people Commonplace Men, Remarkable Men, and Lunatics. I'll classify you with the Remarkables, and take the chances." The deal went through, and secured to the young stranger the first fortune he ever pocketed. The people of Sydney ought to be afraid of the sharks, but for some reason they do not seem to be.
Remarkables: the steering of the boat through the crooked, labyrinthine brook, into the open pond, the man who acted as pilot, his talking with B about politics, the bank, the iron money of "a king who came to reign, in Greece, over a city called Sparta," his advice to B to come amongst the laborers on the mill-dam, because it stimulated them "to see a man grinning amongst them."
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