The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839 |
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... religious disputes during his later years have been in part described by local writers ; and his contributions to science and philosophy have received respectful recognition in the historical literature of those subjects ; but no one ...
... religious disputes during his later years have been in part described by local writers ; and his contributions to science and philosophy have received respectful recognition in the historical literature of those subjects ; but no one ...
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... religious controversialist , and universal scholar , they knew little and probably cared to know nothing more . Englishmen have been even more indifferent to his early than to his later life . They have not pried into obscure local ...
... religious controversialist , and universal scholar , they knew little and probably cared to know nothing more . Englishmen have been even more indifferent to his early than to his later life . They have not pried into obscure local ...
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... religious matters . Until the outbreak of the French Revolution , there was little clash of parties and relative calm prevailed . " Jacobites and Hanoverians , Churchmen , and Dissent- ers , lived together in tolerable harmony , smoking ...
... religious matters . Until the outbreak of the French Revolution , there was little clash of parties and relative calm prevailed . " Jacobites and Hanoverians , Churchmen , and Dissent- ers , lived together in tolerable harmony , smoking ...
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... religion and virtue , although if it should , self- interest must prevail for anything else would be absurd . In theology , he showed himself a determinist both in regard to man and God , " and an Unitarian.50 In one who was by ...
... religion and virtue , although if it should , self- interest must prevail for anything else would be absurd . In theology , he showed himself a determinist both in regard to man and God , " and an Unitarian.50 In one who was by ...
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... Religion in the personal sense , however , probably meant very little to Thomas Cooper . The God he worshipped was Truth and his creed was Freedom . Brought up in the Establishment , he abhorred its mysteries as he deplored its ...
... Religion in the personal sense , however , probably meant very little to Thomas Cooper . The God he worshipped was Truth and his creed was Freedom . Brought up in the Establishment , he abhorred its mysteries as he deplored its ...
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Page 52 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field...
Page 21 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 322 - But when he goes on to give to his accusation " a local habitation and a name," by quoting the expression of a distinguished citizen of South Carolina (Dr. Cooper), "that it was time for the South to calculate the value of the Union...
Page 322 - The tendency of all these ideas and sentiments is obviously to bring the union into discussion, as a mere question of present and temporary expediency — nothing more than a mere matter of profit and loss. The union is to be preserved, while it suits local and temporary purposes to preserve it; and to be sundered whenever it shall be found to thwart such purposes.
Page 237 - I would write to him finally, and request his decision, and expect him, if he accepted, to come on in early spring. From all this it appears to me that we are bound, not only in consistency and reputation, but in law, if Dr. Cooper accepts our propositions. And why should- we wish otherwise ? Cooper is acknowledged by every enlightened man who knows him, to be the greatest man in America, in the powers of mind, and in acquired information ; and that, without a single exception.
Page 322 - Union is to be preserved, while it suits local and temporary purposes to preserve it; and to be sundered whenever it shall be found to thwart such purposes. Union, of itself, is considered by the disciples of this school as hardly a good. It is only regarded as a possible means of good ; or, on the other hand, as a possible means of evil. They cherish no deep and fixed regard for it, flowing from a thorough conviction of its absolute and vital necessity to our welfare. Sir, I deprecate and deplore...
Page 309 - Is it worth our while to continue this union of states, where the north demand to be our masters, and we are required to be their tributaries...
Page 412 - An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper of Northumberland on a Charge of Libel Against the President of the United States; Taken in Short Hand, with a Preface, Notes, and Appendix, by Thomas Cooper (Philadelphia, John Bioren, printer, 1800).
Page 124 - But in the present state of affairs, the press is open to those who will praise, while the threats of the law hang over those who blame the conduct of the men in power.
Page 261 - ... in favour of the Presbyterians, a Church establishment. Of these designs on the part of that sect I am as fully persuaded as I am of my own existence; and what is worse, I greatly fear they will succeed. The people, not aware of the frauds committed, are the gross dupes of missionary societies...