The Diary of William Bentley: Biographical sketch, by J. G. Waters. Address on Dr. Bentley, by Marguerite Dalrymple. Bibliography by Alice G. Waters. Account of the East meeting-house, by J. G. Waters. Diary of Dr. William Bentley, 1784-1792

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Essex Institute, 1905
 

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Página 292 - ... cause of the same kind that renders the air in close rooms, where the perspirable matter is breathed over and over again by a number of assembled people, so hurtful to health. After being in such a situation, many find themselves affected by that febricula, which the English alone call a cold, and, perhaps from the name, imagine that they caught the malady by going out of the room, when it was in fact by being in it.
Página 165 - ... How then did He pray concerning this? But for whom did He pray? For those who believed on Him. And what he means is this, ' He is readily listened to.' For since they had not yet the right opinion concerning Him, he said that He was heard. Just as He Himself also when consoling His disciples said, " If ye loved Me, ye would rejoice, because I go to My Father
Página 79 - And it is hereby understood and intended that the authority and rights hereby given to the said James Freeman to be our Rector, Minister, public Teacher, Priest, teaching Elder and Pastor, are to remain in full force so long as he shall continue to preach the word of God, and dispense instructions in piety, religion, and morality, conformably to our opinions and sentiments of the Holy Scriptures...
Página 291 - I considered it as an enemy, and closed with extreme care every crevice in the rooms I inhabited. Experience has convinced me of my error. I now look upon fresh air as a friend : I even sleep with an open window.
Página xii - When a man is found, who does not profess much, nor despise all, who is pure from guile, peacable in his life, gentle in his manners, easily dissuaded from revenge, with an heart to pity and relieve the miserable, impartial in his judgement, and without dissimulation, this is the man of religion.
Página 291 - ... extreme care every crevice in the rooms I inhabited. Experience has convinced me of my error. I now look upon fresh air as a friend; I even sleep with an open window. I am persuaded that no common air from without is so unwholesome as the air within a close room that has been often breathed and not changed.
Página 70 - ... (I, 72). As is well known, intemperance came in like a flood with the Revolution, the temperance reform came after Bentley's death. The indices of these four volumes are inadequate for measuring all the painful facts recorded. Young and old, rich and poor, men and women are victims of alcohol. Many...
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