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The whole question at stake between the Old Calvinists and the followers of the New Divinity was how to class men, morally upright, who made no pretensions to religious experience. James Dana of New Haven in 1772, but his Scripture Doctrine of Atonement, published in 1785, was his best-known work. In his doctrinal views, he was greatly influenced by Hopkins.
But, notwithstanding this vast wealth, he plunged so recklessly into extravagance that his pecuniary affairs became much embarrassed. His father died in the year 1785, just as the storms of the French Revolution were beginning to darken the horizon.
In time, therefore, the army became no longer a mere support to the monarchy, but a portion of its moral organism, sharing its virtues and its vices, its weakness and its strength, reflecting, as in a mirror, the true condition of the state so far as it was personified in the king. The French army, in the year 1785, was in a sorry plight.
Its originality is beyond all question, which can very rarely be said of an old gravestone, and, as a churchyard record of a local institution, I have never seen it equalled or approached. Under the design is the following inscription: "To the Memory of Thomas Tipper, who departed this life May y'e 14th, 1785, Aged 54 Years.
New-York, August 28th, 1785. The enclosed was to have gone yesterday, but the intended bearer disappointed me. Young and his companions have just left us; at tasting your Madeira he pronounced you a d d clever fellow. Your merit increased with the number of glasses; they went away in good-humour with themselves and the hostess.
When the population grew dense enough to warrant it, a new church organization would be formed to accommodate those living in a neighborhood distant from the nearest house of worship, and as soon as this happened the good dominie or the scribe of the church would begin to record history; so of Upper Red Hook all we know of its early beginnings, starting with a record of baptisms in December, 1785, comes from this source.
There exist letters written by him to the historian Robert Orme, dated as late as 1785, which show the strong interest he always retained in the affairs of Bengal, where with adequate resources he might have played a much more distinguished part.
There is, however, no doubt whatever that the book first appeared in English in 1785, and that Buerger's German version did not see the light until 1786.
Arthur Campbell's plans for the formation of a greater Franklin, through the union of the people on the western waters of Virginia with those of North Carolina, came to nought when Virginia in the autumn of 1785 with stern decisiveness passed an act making it high treason to erect an independent government within her limits unless authorized by the assembly.
LETTER LXXXI. TO MESSRS. N. AND J. VAN STAPHORST, July 30, 1785 TO MESSRS. N. AND J. VAN STAPHORST, Amsterdam. Paris, July 30, 1785. Gentlemen, I received yesterday your favor of the 25th.
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